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How to summarize the 2020 US presidential election in one sentence?
Acting President Donald Trump has received more votes than expected, and his rival Joe Biden has failed to win the key states where votes are counted quickly, increasing uncertainty about the election outcome.
Trump was calculated in advance. What happened?
On the one hand, the opinion institutes failed with their measurement methods. On the one hand, experts say, Trump was heard for his fiscal policy, while his failed handling of the Covid-19 pandemic did not play as big a role as many observers thought.
Why was there no final election result when election day ended?
It has been an extremely close election and in some states it takes time to count all the votes. Each of the 50 states in the United States has its own rules for how to count votes, and those rules delay the final result. In Pennsylvania, for example, you cannot count votes before Election Day. Many voters have mailed and stamped postal envelopes on Election Day are considered valid. This means that the vote count takes time.
It is also a fact that the US is a “low-tech” country, computerization is much less developed than in Sweden, for example.
Donald Trump proclaimed himself the winner of the elections in advance. How is it?
Trump spoke at a quarter past two on Wednesday night, when vote counting was in full swing in most states. He had no actual coverage for his statement. Most observers have interpreted Trump’s move less literally and more as a threat that he will not accept a loss, but will take legal action.
President Trump has also threatened to go to the United States Supreme Court to stop the counting of votes by mail. Can the?
It has been part of Trump’s election tactics that vote-by-mail amounts to voter fraud, a claim for which there is no coverage. Trump’s Republican Party can initiate state-by-state lawsuits to shorten the recount time or require a recalculation, but it cannot go to court to stop the mail-in vote counting.
Is there a historically high turnout?
Yes, based on the figures so far, 66.9 percent of Americans who are eligible to vote have participated in elections. That is the highest number in 120 years. At the same time, it must be remembered that the United States has a low turnout compared to many other Western countries. For example, 82.1 percent voted in the most recent Swedish parliamentary elections (2018).
