Trainwreck is certainly the correct description for what we are headed for on election day. The judges would also have accepted:
"Total Disaster"
"Fiasco"
"Cluster fudge"
Maybe even constitutional crisis
Trainwreck is certainly the correct description for what we are headed for on election day. The judges would also have accepted:
"Total Disaster"
"Fiasco"
"Cluster fudge"
Link? I find it hard to believe that when, nationwide, just a handful of voter fraud cases turn up, Los Angeles has over 1 million cases.
Remember when Trump was elected, and Congress appointed a Republican-led committee to look into voter fraud? They gave up when they couldn't find any.
Although incoming international mail has been being received for weeks now, our P.O. is not accepting outgoing international mail.
They're calling it the "Red Mirage"... catchy... Just remember where you heard it firstI saw this article today that paints a kind of scary scenario. Makes me nervous.
https://www.axios.com/bloomberg-gro...ios-a554e8f5-9702-437e-ae75-d2be478d42bb.html
Called itThis exactly. What Trump is hoping for, is that the reliably red states get called for him early (which FOX News will be happy to oblige) so that he can say he is "winning"... then, declare that all the states that are being reported as "Too early to call" due to mail-in ballots are, in-fact dutifully rigging the vote totals so that Biden wins.
He just wants to throw the whole process into question so that he can justify refusing to concede. If we get to a point in the night where most or all of the states expected to go for Trump have been called, but then he happens to lose a key state, Pennsylvania for example, or Wisconsin, that's when the news outlets are going to start projecting that he will inevitably lose as "the math isn't there for him anymore". At that point Trump will go berserk, crying conspiracy and foul, because "the dishonest media is saying that I will lose the election even though I'm clearly winning, sleepy Joe only has 2 states and I've won 10! Conspiracy?? TREASON???"
What's necessary now is unceasing messaging that the results won't be known on Election Day.
I think I read something like 66% of Americans think the result will be known in a day or two.Looking back on my own congressional districts election in 2018, and looking at projections regarding November, I am seeing an inevitable disaster. Like many California districts, in 2018 the election day vote tallies here favored the Republican but shifted as the mail in vote was counted over the following days. Plenty of people here knew exactly what was going to happen, since people voting by mail skew Democrat here by a very wide margin. However that "plenty of people" did not include the intentionally ignorant and the media that plays to them, so Republicans widely believe that the election was "stolen."
So with mail in voting anticipated to account for as much as thirty percent of the vote, and mail in voting skewing heavily to Democrats, it is predictable that election day vote tallies across the board are going to indicate a complete wipe out in favor of the GOP. This is something the Trump faithful expect and something that their favored media will undoubtedly report as genuinely happening. Trump will almost certainly make a false claim of a sweeping victory sometime in the evening of election day.
At that time there are unlikely to be any facts available to counter that claim. In 2018 the percentages of mail in ballots and how they would skew could be forecast with some reasonable expectation of accuracy, so legitimate predictions could be made. In my district the election day counts were very nearly a tie, for example, so everyone except the most obtusely insistent on ignoring the facts knew the Democrat would take the seat (ultimately by over five points). But the credible news services in November are going to be forced to report "yeah, this is unprecedented so estimates and predictions of final tallies at this point would just be irresponsible." This will not be an effective counter to the predictable irresponsibility of Trump and the right wing news sources that will be telling their followers exactly what they want and expect to hear.
How do we counter what will undoubtedly be several days of Trumpist celebrations? What backlash can we expect from them as votes are counted and reality slowly overtakes their happy place of ignorance?
Fox News will call the election for Joe Biden by 1:00 a.m. November 4th (MSNBC and CNN having called it for him by midnight).
Fake news of the future is never necessary.
Fox News will call the election for Joe Biden by 1:00 a.m. November 4th (MSNBC and CNN having called it for him by midnight).
Eastern.Without even knowing what times zone you are referring to I think this is wildly optimistic. and in the case of Fox News I think it implies a sense of responsibility on their part that is totally lacking. Checking their website earlier today I could not locate a single thing that would prepare their viewers for the possibility of Trump losing.