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NEW YORK. It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry over President Donald Trump’s false attempt to explain a loss even before he loses.
Trump is an exceptionally lousy loser.
Why can’t you just let the electoral authorities count in peace and quiet?
A cohesive Donald Trump walked into the White House press room just before seven o’clock last night US time.
– If only legal votes count, I have won the presidential election easily, says Trump.
At that point, he still has a chance to win the election, but has obviously come to the conclusion that he will lose.
The word loss does not appear in the president’s dictionary. Trump already made clear in the election campaign that he could only lose if the opposition side cheated.
That’s what his press conference was about, to accuse the opposing side of cheating.
Without presenting the slightest bit of evidence, Trump claimed that the reason his leaders in Georgia and Pennsylvania were being phased out was that they counted “illegal votes.” He did not specify what he was referring to.
All votes currently being counted are cast on or before Election Day. Trump’s senior leadership was initially due to the fact that both states first counted the votes cast on Election Day by a majority of Republican voters. Democratic voters used mail ballots to a greater extent to avoid covid infection.
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So, as mail-in ballots began to count, Trump’s lead narrowed to almost nothing.
Similarly, Biden initially had long lines in Florida, Texas, and Ohio, where mail-in votes were counted first. When Trump caught up with him and passed by, he said nothing about cheating. So it was instead a test of his attraction to voters.
But when the same process works against Trump, he alleges cheating and corruption.
– They are trying to steal the elections, says the president.
Although the only thing that happens is that the votes correctly cast are counted. No votes are cast after Election Day. On the other hand, as in Sweden and other well-functioning democracies, it may take a day or two before mail-in votes arrive.
In this election, in addition, a record number of votes by mail has been cast due to the pandemic. Then it takes longer to count them in states like Pennsylvania, where Republicans have banned ballots from being opened before Election Day. So Trump has the stomach to complain that the vote count is not ready on election night.
As Trump held his monologue in front of the press, you could see on real-time television how his leadership in Georgia and Pennsylvania was waning.
A banana republic. A father. A tragedy.
Call it what you want, but the president’s actions are a sign of democratic decline. Even the news anchors of Fox News, Trump’s favorite television channel, have a hard time believing what they hear.
Photo: Evan Vucci / TT NEWS AGENCY
Embarrassing
The strangest and most embarrassing thing is that the heights within the Republican Party are not speaking out. Here is a president who falsely undermines confidence in the democratic process in the most powerful country in the world and most of them do not say a word.
In contrast, in the run-up to the election, many Republican leaders have publicly agreed with Trump’s smear of vote-by-mail. Power is more important than anything else.
The problem is not just that Trump is angry and disappointed. His outburst against the polls may incite his followers. We have already seen how they rallied in front of the Pennsylvania and Arizona polling stations, among other places, and protested the bill. Among other things, banging on windows and yelling “Stop the vote counting.”
If there has been fraud, both candidates have every opportunity in the world to report it and have the evidence reviewed by the courts. But aside from a few claims, there is nothing to suggest that Vens is anywhere close to extensive cheating.
Trump needs to win in both Georgia and Pennsylvania to get reelected. Now, most point to the fact that Biden can get into both. So it’s game over for the president.
Only then remains a fruitless legal battle in which Donald Trump tries to have the democratic votes annulled. There is not much to suggest that it will be successful.
The state-by-state vote count
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