“The president has repeatedly and baselessly attempted to discredit mail-in voting, and preemptively called the 2020 election ‘the greatest fraud in the history of elections’. And because this is 2020 and everything is a nightmare, it turns out that Donald Trump doesn’t even need to prove that mail-in ballots are invalid in order for him to snatch the election away. All he needs to do is prolong the fight over it.
An Atlantic investigation released this week reported that the Trump campaign has discussed plans to drag out the vote count in swing states for 35 days, the point at which states are constitutionally required to certify electors. If there is no decision by then, Trump can ask state legislators – in many swing states, bodies controlled by Republican lawmakers – to set aside the popular vote and choose the winner themselves.
This would be uncharted territory for an American election and thus likely to be handled by the supreme court – which, after the death of liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last week, Trump is trying to pack in his favor in an unprecedentedly brief window before 3 November.
So once again, Donald Trump is the blacklight on American democracy. Thanks to him, everyone is now seeing how America’s system relies on good faith in order to succeed. It’s basically the ‘please only take one Halloween candy’ of democracy.’ Basically what I’m saying is: Donald Trump is trying to grab the election by the pussy, and America needs to pull a Melania and slap that tiny hand away.” —Trevor Noah
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