London - Sana
The British Financial Times confirmed today that US President Donald Trump's desperate attempts to limit the impact of early voting on the presidential elections, which began today, have suffered two heavy blows after judges in Texas and Nevada rejected lawsuits aimed at stopping early vote counting.
The newspaper said in a report that a federal judge in Texas rejected last night a Republican lawsuit aimed at disqualifying 130,000 ballot papers through "car voting" in Houston, while a second judge in Nevada rejected a similar attempt to stop early vote counting in Las Vegas.
The newspaper considered that these moves represent a clear indication of turmoil affecting Trump's strategy to use the courts to enhance his chances of re-election.
The newspaper pointed out that Texas and Nevada are considered in this year's elections in the United States as battlefields, especially Texas, which has not elected a Democratic president since Jimmy Carter in 1976.
The newspaper pointed out that anti-Trump sentiments and demographic changes led to Democratic candidate Joe Biden being placed high in polls in Texas on the eve of the elections, indicating that the Supreme Court rulings of the United States were part of some of the most aggressive maneuvers before the start of the elections in modern American history, and these may become The rulings are an indication that Election Day itself is just part of a "political and legal tragedy" that will last weeks to determine the next president of the United States.
Last week, the Supreme Court allowed an extension of the time required to receive the votes received in the mail in the presidential elections in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, two states pivotal to Trump's chances of winning the presidential elections .. The latter questioned, in a post on Twitter and Facebook, the decision, saying that "rampant cheating will be allowed without restraints." “.
