Continuing to castigate Democratic efforts to promote postal voting because of the pandemic, Donald Trump warned on Friday that the outcome of the November 3 election could take "weeks" , "months" or even "never" be known, because of the delays in counting the ballots arriving by post.
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The American president spoke the day after the inauguration of Joe Biden by the Democratic camp, united in its hatred of Donald Trump, which makes him feel good. The "darkest, angry and dismal convention in American history , " the president reacted on Friday by referring to the inauguration of his competitor. "Where Joe Biden sees American darkness, I see American greatness."
Behind Joe Biden in the polls, the president will be formally reinvested by his party next week at a convention he wanted normal, but that the pandemic has also forced him to make largely virtual. It will officially start Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, while Donald Trump will be visiting not far from there, in another region of this key state for the presidential election. The Republican will deliver his inaugural address Thursday at the White House.
All week long, he set the tone for the response, trying to make the association of "Sleepy Joe" with Barack Obama a disadvantage, and to depict him in turn as a symbol of the establishment, a puppet of the far left and a Beijing lackey.