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US Senator Bernie Sanders may have failed in his bid to be the Democratic Party’s candidate for president, but he was remarkably accurate in a prediction of how election night would unfold, including Donald Trump’s reaction.
In an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last month, the Vermont senator noted that several key states would favor President Trump early in the count because Republicans are more likely to vote in person.
But Sanders said that when mail-in ballots, which were more likely to favor Democratic contender Joe Biden, were counted later, they could change the result to Biden.
BERNIE SANDERS
Bernie Sanders predicted how the US election would unfold and how Trump would respond
“Here’s the fear, and I hope everyone hears it,” Sanders told Fallon.
“It could very 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 going on TV and saying, ‘Thank you Americans for coming back electing me. It’s over. Have a nice day, ”Sanders said.
“But then the next day, and the next day, all those mail-in ballots start to be counted, and it turns out that Biden won in those states, at which point Trump says, ‘Look, I told you it was all fraudulent. I told you those mail ballots were crooked. And we are not leaving office. “
While Trump did not make the 10 p.m. statement, he did hold a press conference in the early hours of Wednesday (local time) to mistakenly claim that he had won the election, despite the fact that there are still millions of votes unaccounted for.
“We want all voting to stop. We don’t want them to find ballots at 4 in the morning and add them to the list. It is a very sad moment. We will win this and, as far as I am concerned, we have already won, ”Trump said.
