Will you support Vox’s explanatory journalism? It’s why international observers are starting to talk about the US in a manner we’re used to hearing with regard to failed states in other continents. That means that when all the votes are counted (and likely recounted in Georgia), he could have a very comfortable margin in the Electoral College.īut beyond the specifics (or lack thereof) behind Trump’s allegations, the fact that the president of the United States is using his platform to undermine American elections is a spectacle without precedent. And as more votes are tallied, it appears Biden has a good chance of sweeping Nevada, Pennsylvania, and possibly even Georgia.
So unless institutions like the Supreme Court prove to be corrupted beyond repair, it’s highly unlikely that any legal challenge the Trump campaign would mount would change anything. And it’s not clear what legal benefits Trump would gain if his campaign prevails.” His campaign has already filed a number of lawsuits challenging the vote-counting process in states like Georgia and Michigan, but as my colleague Ian Millhiser explained, “At least some seem to rest on dubious or incomplete allegations. The problem, however, is that Trump hasn’t yet come up with a convincing argument that anything amiss happened during the election. The takeaway from Thursday’s event was basically the same as the widely panned one Trump held early Wednesday morning, when the election results were still in more doubt - the president thinks only the votes cast for him should be counted and is hoping a Supreme Court that he’s reshaped with three conservative justices will save him. q0V2bIhipY- Aaron Rupar November 6, 2020 He then walks off without taking any questions. "As you know, I've claimed certain states," Trump says, as though calling dibs means he's won. He contradicted himself by framing efforts to count all the votes in places like Michigan and Wisconsin as part of a plot to steal the election from him, while in the next breath insisting that all the votes in Arizona must be counted so he can continue closing the gap in a state that Fox News has already called for Biden (though Vox’s partner Decision Desk has not yet). Trump then tried another argument, claiming that the media conspired to interfere in the election against him, “getting it knowingly wrong” by inflating Biden’s popularity in an attempt to demoralize Trump supporters. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us.” In fact, even the Trump campaign has failed to provide evidence that fraud played any role in Trump seemingly coming up short in key states like Arizona and Nevada. Trump began with a whopper, saying, “If you count the legal votes, I easily win. With Biden now in striking distance of the 270 electoral votes he needs to become president-elect - as this is written, he is narrowly trailing Trump in 20-electoral vote Pennsylvania, with a large number of votes in heavily Democratic areas still to be counted - the president stood behind the White House podium and tossed out baseless accusations that he was the victim of election fraud.
If anyone was hoping that President Donald Trump would gracefully acknowledge the increasingly likely chance that he will lose the presidency to Joe Biden, the dishonest press event he held Thursday evening at the White House indicated he still has little respect for democracy.
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