President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden fought Monday on the eve of an election threatened by legal chaos and fears of violence after Trump, at the polls and hours away, lobbied to discredit the U. S. voting process.
On Tuesday, the world will witness a more divided country that at no other time since the Vietnam War of the 1970s.
Across downtown Washington, companies have closed windows in anticipation of riots and NBC News reported that a new “impossible-to-pick” fence was planned around the White House, which has been developing layers of fortifications since a summer of anti-racism protests.
While the Trump administration warned of left-wing extremists wreaking havoc, supporters of the president have made their own show of strength, driving in van caravans adorned with flags and blocking roads across the country.
The FBI said it was investigating an incident in Texas in which Trump supporters in trucks invaded a Biden Crusade bus while on a highway.
Tuesday is officially Election Day, but it’s actually the culmination of an endless election month.
With a massive expansion of mail voting to protect those who oppose the Covid-19 pandemic, it is estimated that more than 95 million people have already voted, underlining the raw pastime of what becomes a referendum on the first Republican term to be broken. Standards. .
After four years of rulos coasters, almost in part the country sees 74-year-old Trump as a historic risk whose nationalist policies, raw manners, and alleged corruption have led the United States to break the point.
And the other part, evidenced through Trump’s noisy rallies and the chants of “we love you,” sees him as a champion fighting for elegance in the race and a bulwark opposed to the immediate advancement of liberal social values.
Biden, which conducts surveys in almost every state that changes the election, closed its strangely discreet crusade with socially remote occasions in Ohio and Pennsylvania, the fiercest battlefield of all.
Pop superstar Lady Gaga was to sign up for the 77-year-old man, while former President Barack Obama lent his own strength as a political star through demonstrations in favor of Biden in Florida and Georgia, a strong Republican state led by Democrats.
Trump, who mocks Biden’s modest occasions as evidence that opinion polls will have to be wrong, crowned his final wave of 14 demonstrations in three days with visits to North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
The final rally will be held at Grand Rapids, where Trump delivered the final speech of his victorious 2016 crusade and where he hopes it will once again cause turmoil.
– Trump’s electoral integrity –
No choice of man’s reminiscence has taken a stand amid so much tension, combining the coronavirus pandemic, violent street protests, a record shift toward ballots by mail, and, increasingly, Trump’s unprecedented discredit of the functioning of American democracy.
The president, who for months falsely claims that mail votes will lead to mass fraud, has raised the bar in recent days by suggesting that he will push to disqualify votes after Tuesday, a practice that is legal in many of the key states. ballots are sealed on time.
With Republican attempts to get a court to reject more than 100,000 ballots in Texas and other competitive legal measures, Trump’s hostility to electoral regulations has raised fears that he will try to claim a victory or refuse to settle for defeat.
Since the ballots are more likely to come from Democrats, while Tuesday’s face-to-face vote is more likely to be Republican, the initial vote count on election night would possibly lean toward Trump, while the next count may also swing theoretically. It goes back to Biden.
The News site Axios reported Sunday that Trump had told his confidants that he would claim victory immediately if he gave the impression that he was ahead.
Trump called it a “false report,” but repeated his argument that “I don’t think it’s fair that we have to wait long after the election. “
And he said he’d question the validity of the ballots in Pennsylvania. “As soon as they finish those elections, we’ll make our lawyers known,” he said Sunday.