Donald Trump is apparently playing for time in the 2020 US election in order to keep his place in the White House - regardless of the actual election result.
So he could do it.
In the
2020 US election
, President Donald Trump will fight challenger Joe Biden.
Trump has already declared himself the winner - although many votes have not yet been counted, including millions of postal votes that will be overwhelmingly democratic.
Trump may want to sue the White House through the courts.
A scenario that he could also succeed.
You can find an overview of the election results in the individual US states in our overview.
Washington - "They are going to try
to steal
our
elections
" - this statement by
Donald Trump
sums up quite well the light in which the current
US president
wants the election to appear.
He is still ahead, but because millions of postal votes have not yet been counted, the result may slowly turn around - as in the important "swing state" Pennsylvania.
Trump's election victory proclamation is a calculation - will he prohibit the counting of postal votes?
Trump's plan, which he already indicated several times not only on election night, but also in the weeks and months before the election, could be to
ban
the further counting of the
postal
votes
.
Postal votes are mostly from urban areas, where Democrats generally have a majority.
These voices are also not immune to breakdowns (such as a burst water pipe *).
Trump's statement
to proclaim victory
on election evening
can therefore be classified as a calculation.
“What a choice, what a win,” he said.
The Slovenian President was the first international head of state to congratulate him.
Trump's wife Melania was born in Slovenia.
It's pretty clear that American people have elected @realDonaldTrump @Mike_Pence for # 4moreyears.
More delays and facts denying from #MSM, bigger the final triumph for #POTUS.
Congratulations @GOP for strong results across the #US @idualliance pic.twitter.com/vzSwt9TBeF
- Janez Janša (@JJansaSDS) November 4, 2020
Trump wants to sue the White House if necessary, and his most important instrument could be the
Supreme Court
.
After Amy Coney Barrett's hasty appeal, Conservative justices in the US Supreme Court have a clear majority of six to three.
2020 US election: More than 300 lawsuits filed before the election
Trump has been building this scenario for months.
He speaks of "fraud".
In Pennsylvania * and
Georgia
, he declared himself the winner, although Pennsylvania's Governor Tom Wolfe declared that there were still a million votes to be counted.
More than
300 lawsuits were filed
before the election to attack election procedures in mostly contested states, writes the "Süddeutsche Zeitung".
In Texas, for example, 127,000 ballot papers that were given out of the car due to the corona are being contested.
The basic constellation of voting must be taken into account here:
Democrats
want to make it as easy as possible for Americans to vote because they
benefit more
from
lower hurdles
.
The
Republicans
benefit from high hurdles.
These include, for example, the fact that convicted criminals are not allowed to vote, that election day does not take place on the weekend or that you have to sign up on electoral rolls.
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2020 US election: Donald Trump wants to stop further vote counting.
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US election 2020: The legitimacy of the postal votes is to be questioned - only to be later declared invalid
A central question, however, will be how long after the election votes may be counted, especially postal votes.
If the Republicans have their way, their legitimacy and correctness should be questioned, the deadlines kept short.
Because of the corona pandemic, a particularly large number of people vote by letter this year.
More than
90 million Americans
have applied for this type of election, according to the US Election Project - almost three times as many as in 2016.
The
way that states are counted varies
greatly.
For example, judges in Swing State Wisconsin ruled that votes cast
after 8 p.m.
do not count
.
The conservative judge
Brett Kavanaugh
feared that the result could otherwise be “turned upside down” and that “chaos” threatened.
In Swing State Pennsylvania, on the other hand, postal votes may only be counted on election day.
A “blue shift”, that is, a slow development towards a Biden victory, was expected in advance - but if the Supreme Court declares the votes invalid, it does not even happen.
Not only Kavanaugh but also other judges have expressed doubts about the correctness of the postal votes in the past.
US election 2020: "Strategic plan for the Interregnum" - Trump plays for time
Trump "is actually not trying
to prevent
the
postal vote
altogether, that is also not in his power," writes the American journalist and author Barton Gellman in "The Atlantic", "it is just a strategic part of his plan for the Interregnum."
The
interregnum
is the 79 days between election night and the inauguration of the new president on January 20, 2021. If no result is known 35 days after the election, the governors and parliaments of the states could decide on their voters.
US citizens are not guaranteed the right to direct elections in the constitution, only that the
Electoral College
must meet by then.
The second option is the decision to vote in court - which could go as far as the conservative Supreme Court.
The last time it happened was in 2000 - Republican George W. Bush triumphed over Democrat Al Gore with the help of the judges.
Biden's campaign team does not want to let this happen inactive.
It described Trump's demand to stop the vote count as "scandalous".
Should Trump go to court, legal action will be taken against it.
“Our lawyers are ready,” said Biden's campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon.
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