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For a long time, Trump has certainly tried to undermine the legitimacy and validity of the upcoming presidential election. Among other things, he has made repeated unsubstantiated claims that the election will be “rigged” due to this year’s extensive vote-by-mail. Nor has he ever wanted to answer whether he will accept the result of the elections if he loses.
But at a press conference At the White House Thursday night, the president went one step further: Although asked twice if he intended to participate in a “peaceful shift of power” after the election, he declined to respond.
“We’ll see what happens,” Trump said.
The statement certainly sends chilling rhetoric among his opponents in the Democratic Party, but also among everyone else in the United States and the outside world who have viewed the United States Constitution as a guarantee of peaceful transfers of power.
Republican Senator Mitt Romney, who was himself the party’s presidential candidate in 2012, condemned Trump’s lack of response: “Without a peaceful transfer of power, it’s Belarus.”
Mitt Romney.
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Trump noted that they are precisely the postal voices to which it is delivered. In fuzzy wording, he indicated how he might consider holding onto the White House by rejecting alleged dubious mail-in ballots:
– If you get rid of the ballots (postal votes, editor’s note) … then, honestly, there will be no transfer of power. It will be a sequel.
What Trump said was more than a hint of his thinking: If he can get enough of the millions of postal votes rejected as “false” or invalid, he can declare himself the winner of the election on November 3.
It’s all based on simple math: Significantly more Democrats than Republicans are expected to vote, and if many of those votes are declared invalid, the way is open for Trump’s reelection.
It’s all based on simple math: Significantly more Democrats than Republicans are expected to vote, and if many of those votes are declared invalid, the way is open for Trump’s re-election.
That which can lead to That dozens of votes by mail are eliminated is in the scenario of Trump the courts, which after his four years as president have been occupied by conservative judges. This is also where the current election of a new Supreme Court justice comes into play. After the Senate approves the Trump-nominated judge, the conservative dominance of liberal justices will be 6-3. If the election result is contested in one or more states, the decision may ultimately end in HD, and then Trump hopes to have it on his side.
That was a rationale Trump spoke about on Wednesday, when he declared that the winner of the election will ultimately decide HD. He stressed that this is why it is so important to replace the late Liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg even before Election Day.
Like many others Trump probably remembers what happened after the November 2000 election, when he stood between Republican George W Bush and Democrat Al Gore. The vote count in the crucial state of Florida turned chaotic, Bush led by a very narrow margin, and Democrats demanded a recount of all votes in Florida.
Then Bush’s lawyers took the matter to HD, which suspended the vote count. Thus, Bush “won” in Florida and obtained a majority in the Electoral College.
