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Donald Trump will prematurely declare himself the winner of the 2020 presidential election Tuesday night if he appears to be ‘ahead’ of Joe Biden, even if a ton of Electoral College votes are still unknown.
The president has privately discussed possible Nov.3 scenarios in detail, three people familiar with his private comments told Axios in a report released Sunday, which include taking the podium on Tuesday and declaring he won before the results are revealed. official results.
Some states may not yet know which candidates will get their votes in the Electoral College on Tuesday, as a record number of voters have cast their vote by mail amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar reminded NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday morning that “elections have never been called on Election Night.”
She specifically pointed to the fact that some states allow service members stationed overseas to have a week after Election Day to cast their votes.
Although Americans have become accustomed to meeting the winner of the presidential election on Election Night, that is always based on projections from news organizations based on partial counts.
President Donald Trump is preparing to declare a victory on election night Tuesday, even though several states have just started counting their millions of ballots that day.
Trump will only make the claim, his allies say, if he appears to be ‘ahead’ of Biden and has won or has a dominant advantage in Texas, Iowa, Georgia and the changing states of Ohio, Florida, North Carolina and Arizona.
Actual counts for presidential elections are rarely, if ever, done on the same day that the elections are held.
Several states have extended the period in which mail-in ballots will count to accommodate the influx.
Pennsylvania, for example, is accepting mail-in ballots through the end of the week on Friday, and North Carolina will continue to count ballots eight days after Election Day. North Carolina elections officials insist that 97 percent of the ballots will already be counted and reported by Election Night.
Trump’s team is preparing to claim mail ballots counted after Nov. 3 are evidence of ballot and ballot fraud and will accuse Democrats of trying to steal the election.
The president’s campaign communications director, Tim Murtaugh, said: ‘This is nothing more than people trying to cast doubt on Trump’s victory. When he wins, he will say so.
The Supreme Court ruled that Pennsylvania and North Carolina can count their votes by mail in the days following the election, which means the true winner is highly unlikely to be known Tuesday night.
Absentee and mail-in votes are expected to favor Democrats, as these early and remote voting measures traditionally do.
Millions of Americans more than usual are mailing their ballots in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, and some states, notably Pennsylvania, are allowing their states several additional days to count the ballots before reporting a winner in the state.
Various projections predict that on election night, it will appear that President Trump has the upper hand in Pennsylvania, and then the final outcome of the state could change substantially in favor of Democratic candidate Joe Biden after the mail-in ballots are counted.
With 20 Electoral College votes, Pennsylvania is one of the most influential and critical swing states for a 2020 victory. Florida, which has 29 votes, is the most important thing Trump must win to secure another four years.
Keystone state election law prevents officials from counting mail-in ballots before Election Day arrives, and the Pennsylvania secretary of state said Sunday morning that she expects up to 10 times the number of mail-in ballots. than in previous years.
“Yes, it will take longer,” Kathy Boockvar said when asked about the schedule.
“I expect that the overwhelming majority of ballots in Pennsylvania, which are absentee and mail ballots, as well as in-person ballots, will be counted in a matter of days,” Boockvar said.
Trump’s allies claim that for the president to go through with declaring victory before the race is officially called, he would need to win or have dominant leaders in Texas, Iowa, Georgia and the changing states of Ohio, Florida, and Carolina. North and Arizona.
Trump’s senior campaign adviser Jason Miller predicted Sunday that Trump “will be re-elected easily and no amount of post-election Democratic robberies will ever change the results.”
He then accused that if Trump lost, it would be due to ‘mischief or lawsuits or any kind of nonsense’ by Democrats.
