US Elections: Bernie Sanders Sanders retired from the presidential race earlier this year.
The words of top Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders nearly two weeks ago about how the US presidential election would turn out and how Donald Trump would react appear to have turned prescient about how the counting process and the drama have played out.
A clip of his predictions during an interview has received more than 27 million views in the last 24 hours.
Appearing on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon last month, the 79-year-old Sanders was asked when he thinks the election results will be released. He predicted that there could be a flood of mailed ballots in this election and this could result in a delay in the counting process to be completed.
“You are going to have the situation that I suspect in the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, other states where you are going to receive large amounts of ballots by mail. And unlike states like Florida or Vermont, not able, for bad reasons, to start to process those ballots until I don’t know – on Election Day or maybe when the polls close. That means there will be states dealing with maybe millions of mail-in ballots, “said Sanders, who dropped out of the presidential race early in this year, he had said on the show.
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– hannah (@hannahhycho) November 5, 2020
He had said that Democrats are more likely to use mail-in ballots and Republicans are more likely to enter the polls on Election Day.
“It could well be that, at 10 o’clock on Election Night, Trump is winning in Michigan, he’s winning in Pennsylvania, he’s winning in Wisconsin, and he’s on TV and he says, ‘Thank you Americans for re-election.’ ‘ It’s all over, have a nice day, ”Sanders said.
And that was exactly how it played out yesterday.
Trump falsely declared victory over his Democratic rival Joe Biden, with millions of votes still to be counted in the tight race for the White House. The president said he would go to the Supreme Court. “We were preparing to win this election. Frankly, we won this election,” Trump said at an extraordinary press conference from the White House at 2.30 am.
“This is a huge fraud in our nation. We want the law to be used properly. So we will go to the Supreme Court of the United States. We want all voting to stop,” Trump said.
In the October interview, Bernie Sanders said that Biden eventually wins the states that have a high number of votes, prompting Trump to respond with fraud charges.
Sanders had said, “But then the next day and the next day, all those mailed ballots start counting and it turns out that Biden has won those states. At that point, Trump says, ‘See? It was all fraudulent. I said those mail-in ballots were crooked. You know, we’re not leaving office. “
In November, when Biden won Michigan and Wisconsin, bringing him closer to the majority, Trump made it clear that he would not accept the reported results and issued unprecedented complaints. His campaign announced lawsuits in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia and demanded a recount in Wisconsin.
“I just realized I could have captioned this” Bernie Sanders used the future sight. It was super effective! (sic), “said Hannah (@hannahhycho), who tweeted the now-viral interview clip.
“man … called it WORD for WORD (sic),” said another user.
(With contributions from AFP)
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