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Will Trump declare himself the winner of the elections early?
According to media reports, US President Donald Trump speculated about himself. on election night to be declared the winner if he is temporarily ahead in the count. The Axios news website on Sunday quoted unidentified sources as saying the president had spoken to his confidants about it. Broadcaster CNN reported something similar, citing Trump aides.
The background is that due to the corona pandemic, a Record number of Americans voting by mail votes. According to polls, supporters of Democrat Joe Biden in particular want to seize this opportunity. The problem is that, in all likelihood, absentee votes in some of the undecided states in dispute still counted days after the election be. Among other things, this is probably in Pennsylvania the case, a state that could make a difference. Here you can only on election day start counting.
Therefore, it is possible that Trump is on Wednesday night is temporarily ahead, but its protagonist disappears again in the following days. That would be a Uncertainty phase that Democrats fear the incumbent could take advantage of.
538 electoral votes there is a victory that needs the winner at least 270 of her to be elected president. In almost all states, the “winner takes all” rule applies: in the end, the candidate ahead of the state in question gets all the votes.
At an election campaign event in Dubuque, Iowa, one of five on Sunday, the president again asked for a The result of the election should be available Wednesday night.. “It has always been that way, and it should be that way.” It is “terrible if we cannot get an electoral result on election night.”
Trump has been claiming the vote by mail for months without any evidence prone to fraud be and the Democrats then the choice “Steal” wanted to. In several states, Republicans are taking legal action against this.
its Campaign Advisor Jason Miller reinforced this accusation on Sunday. On ABC, he said: “We believe we will have more than 290 voters on election night.” re-elected. It doesn’t matter what the Democrats try with “trials or any other nonsense.”
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