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Donald Trump believed he had won long before major key states were counted.
This is the lead editor of the newspaper. Sydsvenskan’s attitude is independently liberal.
The statement of President Donald Trump from the White House that the counting of votes must be stopped and that he intends to go to the Supreme Court to achieve it is shocking. This is also in stark contrast to rival Joe Biden’s statement that the election cannot be decided until all votes cast have been counted.
As many feared, the war of words between the fighters is now intensifying. Donald Trump has also managed, if possible, to outdo himself when, in his historic statement on completely false grounds, he proclaimed himself the winner, long before a clear result can be discerned.
“We’re going BIG, but they’re trying to STEAL the election,” Donald Trump tweeted at seven in the morning Swedish time. What he meant was, among other things, that the count was temporarily interrupted in various places so that tellers could rest for a few hours.
It is not the candidates who decide who won, it is the vote counting in each state that is done according to different rules from state to state, but in a process that must get away with it.
In the case of Pennsylvania, one of the key states, that process could drag on until the end of this week. Or longer. The fact that early votes in the particular important state are counted last not only adds to the uncertainty, but fits into Trump’s many indications that mail-in votes and early votes are cheating or invalid. However, a victory for Biden from the Pennsylvania Democrats is not entirely obvious. According to CNN, up to 1.4 million mail-in votes are ready to be counted in the state (they should be counted last according to the rules), but even if Biden is seen as benefiting from mail-in votes, he must win. up to 75 percent of the vote to beat Trump in Pennsylvania.
Donald Trump’s strategy to anticipate the election result is dangerous. His confident statement that he had already won important key states, which he rightly can, but has not yet, was a blatant lie that a head of state told from his official residence to the entire population. It blows during the division among American voters.
For the incumbent president to believe that not all votes should be counted is beyond common sense. It can have far-reaching consequences for the country’s political climate and for the moods of an already deeply divided electorate.
