Current Events > Trump casts doubt on integrity of vote counting, vows to deploy army of lawyers

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President Donald Trump is casting doubt on the integrity of vote counting and warning he will deploy squads of lawyers when polls close on Tuesday, as his latest attempts to tarnish the democratic process deepen a sense of national nervousness hours before Election Day.

The President's maneuvering, as he fights to the last moment to secure a second term, is taking place ahead of a court hearing in Texas Monday morning on a Republican request to throw out 127,000 drive-thru votes in a key county. The case is one of a growing number of GOP legal gambits to jam up vote counting or reject ballots and comes amid new concerns that the Postal Service, after reforms initiated by its new pro-Trump CEO, may struggle to deliver a deluge of mail-in ballots before counting deadlines.

In an extraordinary departure from American political tradition, Trump has been arguing for months that the election is "rigged" against him, has made false claims that mail-in voting is corrupt and has refused to guarantee a peaceful transfer of power.

On Sunday, the President stoked fears of a disputed election that could have corrosive long-term effects by raising the false argument that results not declared on an election night were somehow illegitimate. Many US elections have gone past midnight on Election Day. It is common for some states to take several days to finalize vote counts.
"I think it's a terrible thing when ballots can be collected after an election," Trump said in the crucial state of North Carolina, which he is battling to keep in his column despite demographic changes that give Democrats hope.

"I think it's a terrible thing when people or states are allowed to tabulate ballots for a long period of time after the election is over because it can only lead to one thing, and that's very bad. You know what that thing is. I think it's a very dangerous, terrible thing," Trump told reporters.

In another ominous comment, the President said that as soon as voting was over in states like Pennsylvania, "We're going in with our lawyers," after railing against a Supreme Court decision that left in place for now a decision by Pennsylvania's top bench to allow the counting of ballots up to three days after Election Day.
Fears are also growing that the President might try to declare victory before all the votes are counted as he and Democratic nominee Joe Biden launch a final-day swing through the battleground states that will decide one of the most crucial elections in modern US history. Their sprint is taking place as the coronavirus pandemic -- that Trump has denied and downplayed -- begins to rage out of control across most of the country. The situation further complicates life for millions expected to head to polling places on Tuesday to join the record 95 million citizens who have already cast an early vote.

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Now, for all the delusional Trumpers out there....does this sound like the rhetoric of a man that's confident he's gonna win?

He's already pre-emptively complaining about the voting process.

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solosnake posted...

"I think it's a terrible thing when people or states are allowed to tabulate ballots for a long period of time after the election is over because it can only lead to one thing, and that's very bad. You know what that thing is. I think it's a very dangerous, terrible thing," Trump told reporters.

It's a good thing we know what that very bad thing it leads too is

Since Trump cant tell us

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seems a little biased ngl

shockthemonkey posted...

But he did that last time and still won so

Yeah but now even his own party seems like they're trying to distance themselves from him

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He sounds maga desperate..................

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shockthemonkey posted...

But he did that last time and still won so

Yeah I was going to say he said the election was fixed and rigged in 16


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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Now, for all the delusional Trumpers out there....does this sound like the rhetoric of a man that's confident he's gonna win?

He's so confident he'll sue the pants outta those pesky libs!

I'm sure his 'squads of lawyers' are no less competent and intimidating than his main man Rudy G.

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UnfairRepresent posted...

It's a good thing we know what that very bad thing it leads too is

Since Trump cant tell us

Maybe communism?

That's the very bad thing yes? Is it communism?!

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This is gonna be a shit show

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Just because he can't count doesn't mean others can't.

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How? He can't even drive his supporters back.

He has no faith in the electoral process and believes the only correct outcome is one in which he wins. But anyone complaining about him is clearly just a hater.

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bump

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