"The unthinkable can happen here": Investigative journalist Woodward unpacks about talks with Trump

Many Americans have already cast their vote in the 2020 US election - a prominent critic of Donald Trump as well.

In polls, the US president is behind.

• More

  eligible voters

  than in 2016 have already made use of early voting in the US election *

• Republican

  Mitt Romney

  has also voted.

• Donald Trump

  * is losing supporters in his own ranks.

Update from October 23, 2:57 p.m.:

His research with a colleague brought down US President

, and

he has already published two books

about the current incumbent

:

has already experienced a lot in US politics .

But after the

everything could be different.

"The unthinkable can happen here," says Woodward in an interview with Der Spiegel (article behind a pay barrier).

Woodward

said he spoke to Trump for almost nine hours this year

for his current

.

Especially when dealing with the

the President failed.

“I now think he just doesn't understand that it's his responsibility to protect people.

Nor does he understand that he has a

to tell the truth.

And he doesn't understand his moral responsibility to conscientiously fulfill the duties of a president. ”Woodward is stunned that Trump had not

warned

his compatriots about the

earlier

.

US election 2020: The election polls look bad for Donald Trump

Trump tramples the

.

Woodward does not trust polls, however: "Well, it is quite possible that he will win." This is what ex-President

recently emphasized.

So far, Trump is behind his challenger Joe Biden of the Democrats in surveys nationwide.

Bob Woodward

served in the US Navy

during the

.

After all, the journalist finds a little appreciation for Trump on this topic: "There has been no

so far

."

2020 US election: Donald Trump accuses Fox News of polling fraud

Update from October 22nd, 5:25 p.m.:

Donald

has

assumed

the station

via

to falsify surveys.

That was the case as early as 2016.

"I am

ahead

in all of the

mentioned

, which you will see soon," wrote the

in a

.

. @ FoxNews Polls are totally FAKE, just like they were in 2016. I am leading in all of the states mentioned, which you will see soon.

I thought Fox was getting rid of its pollster.

Sadly, it never happened!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2020

According to

,

a small lead in Ohio.

In Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, on the other hand - states that

helped

win his 2016 victory

-

ahead.

In the comments, there are mostly

.

“This is what losing looks like,” writes a follower.

Others wish him luck in the upcoming

.

2020 U.S. Election and Early Voting: Who Did Ex-Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney Vote?

First report from October 22nd, 10:06 am:

Washington, DC - The

is in full swing and more voters than in 2016 have already cast their votes before

.

Data from the "US Elections Project" by political scientist Michael McDonald of the University of Florida shows that more than 21.8 million Americans have already used the option of early

.

This corresponds to around 15.7 percent of all votes in the 2016 election (as of October 16).

One of those early voters is

, a former Republican presidential candidate in the 2012 US election who lost to

at the time

.

But his vote did not go to his party's candidate,

, as he

told

on Thursday

.

However

, Romney did not reveal

whether he chose the Democratic candidate

*

instead

.

He wanted to "keep this to myself at this time".

In addition to Trump and Biden, other candidates * are running for the

, but they are not given any great opportunities.

Video: Donald Trump also dealt against Mitt Romney in the past

Romney, currently the

for Utah *, has long been known as a sharp critic of US President Donald Trump.

In the impeachment proceedings against the President *, Romney was the only Republican in the Senate to vote earlier this year to impeach Trump for

.

At the time, he said that Trump was

guilty of "appalling abuse of public trust"

in the course of the so-called

.

Just last week Romney wrote in a statement on Twitter:

had degenerated into a “mean, hateful quagmire marked by diatribes”.

"Many Americans are afraid for our country - so divided, so angry, so mean, so violent."

Mitt Romey: Current US politics of the "birthplace of modern democracy" unworthy

My thoughts on the current state of our politics: pic.twitter.com/oYY4zlX6ZP

- Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) October 13, 2020

The

recently

reported that employees from Trump's

believe that a victory for Trump could be close.

In the national

the incumbent US president has been behind his challenger Joe Biden for months.

On Tuesday, the candidates split according to evaluations by data analysts on the US website 

around ten percentage points.

(cibo / dpa)