Posted on 11/03/2024 10:52:18 AM PST by DallasBiff
Democrats are readying a rapid-fire response to flood social media and the airwaves with calls for calm and patience with vote-counting should Donald Trump try to prematurely claim election victory, as he did in 2020, Harris campaign and party officials told Reuters.
The Republican candidate told reporters this week that he hoped to be able to declare victory on Election Day, although election experts have cautioned that it could take several days for the final result to be known, especially if there are demands for vote recounts in some key areas. Trump is locked in a razor-thin race with Democratic rival Kamala Harris.
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Trump declared victory early in 2020. That didn’t go well. Hope he has the common sense to wait until all the votes are counted this time.
In the old days the vast majority of people voted in person, with votes being counted as they came in. Absentee voters were a few elderly, disabled, or overseas military voters. Now everyone and his brother votes by mail and some states don’t start to count mail-in ballots until the polls close. I don’t see this particular genie going back into the bottle. Way too many working people like the convenience of not having to take time off to vote.
I can see it happening, forcing the Supreme Court to intervene.
Why would Whitmer want the Trump Supreme Court to intervene?
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