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Fears of the new Corona virus outbreak are expected to lead to an increase in voting by mail, as millions of voters seek to avoid polling stations. In a country facing a health crisis and a divide over racism, the next sixty days will test the ability of the world’s largest economy to organize elections, after the epidemic that killed 187,000 Americans. North Carolina will begin shipping more than 600,000 postal ballots to meet the huge demand. Other major states will follow in the coming weeks, such as Wisconsin, which each of the candidates recently visited.
And while the voting mechanism has become a hot topic in an increasingly divisive political landscape. A USA Today and Suffolk University poll showed that 56 percent of Republican voters polled said they would go to the polls in person, compared with 26 percent of Democratic voters who intend to do the same. Likewise, one in four Biden voters said that if their candidate loses in the election, they will not be willing to accept Trump’s victory as a “fair victory.” This was also expressed, in the opposite direction, by one in five Trump voters. Trump planted, during his campaign for a second term in four years, the seeds of doubt among his basis over the legality of an election involving a large number of ballots sent by mail. Trump himself, who votes by mail in Florida in which he is registered, has repeatedly said, without providing proof, that mail polls could lead to widespread fraud, and even suggested that his supporters test the ballot twice to prove the mechanism, which exposed him to intimidation on social media and the Democrats.
The next sixty days will test America’s ability to organize its elections.
The mail-in polls began the day after the election campaign broke out, Thursday, with a report in The Atlantic magazine, citing four anonymous sources, who said they were directly aware of the conversations, that Trump was referring to the US Marines who were killed in WWI and who were buried in a cemetery in France who are “losers” and “idiots” because they were killed in battles. Trump responded with an avalanche of tweets in his defense. “The Atlantic is dying like most magazines, so they are creating a false story to get attention,” he wrote. He increased his attack on the report, which he called “shameful”, during his statements to White House reporters. His supporters also fought back and flooded social media with photos of the president accompanied by American soldiers, but others were quick to post his statements from the 2016 campaign, when he mocked the late Senator John McCain, who had been a prisoner of war for years in Vietnam.
On the other hand, Biden considered, commenting on the article, that “it is disgusting, regrettable, it is completely contrary to American concepts”, considering that the statements were transmitted with precision. He added: “Who does he think he is?” Biden went on to talk about his son Poe, who served in the US military before becoming Delaware attorney general and died of cancer in 2015. He said that Poe “when he went to Iraq for a year and earned a star from bronze and other honors, he wasn’t stupid. ” Later, Trump responded from the White House, accusing journalists of being lenient with his Democratic rival. He said, “Look at the level of the questions you’re asking, honestly, it’s a shame.” He added: “It is aimed at children.” The two candidates are expected to suspend the campaign during the three-day work vacation. But next Friday, Trump and Biden may meet face to face, as they both announced their participation in a ceremony in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Yes, “he is still the President of the United States. United”.
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