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US presidential election: the Supreme Court, an arbiter on which Trump also places his hopes

2020-11-04T20:35:34.580Z


DECRYPTION - The threat, agitated by the president, is more political and responds less to a really legal logic.


As a reality TV veteran, Donald Trump has been following the script of a scenario he authored for a few hours.

"I think it will end before the Supreme Court,"

he said on September 24.

The outgoing president clarified his point in the middle of election night:

"We are going to go to the Supreme Court, we want all votes to stop."

The objective for the Republican camp is therefore to cut short the counting which may last another day or more, because of the correspondence bulletins arrived in record proportions because of the Covid-19 pandemic and which were more popular. by Democratic supporters.

The massive use of postal voting has also allowed the president to brandish for several months the unfounded thesis of a poll marred by large-scale fraud.

A study published in June by the

Washington Post

, based on data collected from three postal voting states, showed that only

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Source: lefigaro

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