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The war of nerves begins immediately. Before the vote count ends, Joe Biden says he is “on his way to victory,” but “the election ends when the last vote is counted.” Fuse for Donald Trump: “They are trying to steal the elections from us. No votes can be cast after the polls close! ”. He has it with the vote by mail that would favor the Democrats and that in some states can even be expressed until November 12. Twitter is still descending into the political arena and reports the president’s twitter: “Deceptive.” He will later do so with a tweet from Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša, a Trump supporter. Shortly after, Trump declares “victory” from the White House, asks that the vote by mail be stopped counting, shakes the “appeal to the Supreme Court.”
The United States is darkening: the risk of an institutional crisis abroad also worries the rest of the world, starting with Europe, where markets are feeling the effects of the new uncertainty.
Even Vice President Mike Pence must have noticed. Surprisingly, Trump calls him to intervene, having incited the crowd against the Democrats who are still there to “count the votes”, after having accused them of “fraud”, of trying to “steal the elections” while he, ‘the Donald ‘, would have “won” by now. Pence is surprised. He seems to have a suspicion (evidently well founded) that the president wants to lead him into battle. But it does not get carried away. It dissociates. Pence does not speak of victory, he goes so far as to say that “we are on our way to victory” to counter Biden. But he is not asking for the counting of votes to be halted, before millions of ballots that have yet to be counted. “The right to vote – he says – is at the heart of our democracy.”
Announced chaos. It is the picture that has been feared, at least since Trump began to raise doubts about the vote by mail, accusing Democrats of fraud for some time. So much so that, on the eve of the vote, the Trumpistas and anti-Trump are fervent in the preparations for the demonstrations in support of one side or the other. If the end result is unfavorable for the president, his people will take to the streets, but Huffpost learns that Biden’s supporters also intend to demonstrate: in Washington on Sunday.
By the end of the week, the result will be clear. But the tension unleashed by a Trump determined to contest a possible defeat heralds difficult days on the edge of an institutional, social, political abyss for the United States and for the international partners of a global world.
In a few hours, the challenge between Trump and Biden turns into a war between those who dispute the counting of votes and those who ask that the last vote be counted. As if to say: between those who do not respect the law – just like that – and those who appeal to the law to feel guaranteed.
The ongoing escalation undermines respect for the rule of law in the United States: while prone to dangers of this kind, never before has Trump gone this far into the ‘no-go’ zone of a true west ‘in a modern way. Biden responds by threatening to take legal action. Will that be enough to calm a country in crisis?
The sad prophecy of “old” Democrat Bernie Sanders is coming true. He explained it well last night on television, with the polling stations open. “Every vote must be counted – he says – There will be states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin where millions of voters vote by correspondence and it could happen that the first votes to be counted are those of those who attended the electoral college. So my fear is that after this partial count, Trump might go on television to thank the voters for re-electing him and then when the count closes, yell for cheating, from the series’ I told you it was a scam ! ‘. This is my concern … “.
The count is not over, but Donald is already yelling.
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