In just 37 days - on 3 November 2020 - United States citizens go to the polls to elect their 46th President.
In person absentee voting has already started in Alabama, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Vermont, Missouri, Illinois and Michigan. Thirty-eight other states will begin in person absentee voting during October.
Trump is replaying his threats of 2016 - presumably in an effort to discourage voter turn-out and/or lay the groundwork for justification of a legal challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court if he fails to secure enough votes to retain the presidency.
Forbes, 23 September 2020:
In person absentee voting has already started in Alabama, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Vermont, Missouri, Illinois and Michigan. Thirty-eight other states will begin in person absentee voting during October.
Trump is replaying his threats of 2016 - presumably in an effort to discourage voter turn-out and/or lay the groundwork for justification of a legal challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court if he fails to secure enough votes to retain the presidency.
Forbes, 23 September 2020:
President
Trump on Wednesday refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power
if former Vice President Joe Biden wins the election in November,
calling for the elimination of mail-in ballots, which he said would
ensure the “continuation” of his presidency…..
Trump
has been a vocal opponent of states’ efforts to expand mail-in
voting in response to coronavirus, often spreading unfounded or
outright false claims about widespread fraud from mail-in ballots and
even tweeting, “The 2020 Election will be totally rigged if Mail-In
Voting is allowed to take place.”
Pressed
further on committing to a peaceful transfer of power on Wednesday,
Trump called to “get rid of the ballots,” adding “we’ll have
a very peaceful- there won’t be a transfer, frankly, we’ll have a
continuation.”
Trump
also said at an earlier event on Wednesday that his push to get a
ninth justice confirmed to the Supreme Court before the election is
so the U.S. has a full slate of justices to rule on the “scam the
Democrats are pulling” with mail-in ballots.
The
comments come after Trump mused about passing an executive order to
prevent Biden from becoming president because, in his words, “You
can't have this guy as your president.”……
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