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"WASHINGTON — Counting continues in the 2020 presidential election on Wednesday after President Donald Trump won key battleground states like Florida, Ohio and others, while Joe Biden carried Minnesota and New Hampshire and leads in Arizona, NBC News projects.

No winner was called Tuesday night as Democrats failed to land the decisive early knockout blow they were hoping for and Republicans did not see the flood of new voters that the president had promised would show up on Election Day.

Still, Trump overperformed polls and expectations while a massive surge in mail-in ballots and rules restricting when officials could begin processing them delaying the vote counts, which will continue into in coming hours and days.

The race now appears to hinge on a familiar a set of places — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — the three historically Democratic states that put Trump in the White House four years ago when he narrowly won them.

But North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada also remain too close to call, according to NBC News, and various combinations of any of them could determine the future of the country.

Trump had to win Florida to have any real shot at re-election, most analysts agree, while Biden has multiple paths to victory that do not include the state.

In the Electoral College, Biden has 224 votes while Trump has 213. It takes 270 to win the White House…

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The Trump campaign is going to sue, in spite of Supreme Court precedent , in conjunction of Republican efforts to stop Pennsylvania mail in votes.

That is soooooo lame, even MC’ONELL has issues with it!

What precedent?

What is being done here has no precedent.

I managed to dig it up:

“WASHINGTON — In a pair of decisions welcomed by Democrats, the Supreme Court on Wednesday let election officials in two key battleground states, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, accept absentee ballots for several days after Election Day.”

This isn’t a question about absentee ballots.

This is a question about whether the system used to process tens of millions of votes was in any way reliable.

A couple hundred absentee ballots? Couple thousand? Hundred thousand? Couple million? Still not even close to a precedent for this.

The precedent is for an exception to regular voting procedures. Not an alternative.

Tens of millions of votes were trusted to…

The US postal service.

They don’t even like to handle money.

There are no “recount rules.” There are no established rules because there is no precedent. That is what I am trying to tell you. This was done, haphazardly, within a couple months, and radically overturned decades of actual precedent.

Dude! Mail in ballot states have been around for decades … it’s not a complicated process. You get a ballot sent to your address. You open the envelope, fill it out, put it into the enclosed prepaid envelope, sign your name on the back of it, and put it into the post office outgoing mail.

The people who receive the ballots check your signature against your name on the front of the letter, if it’s there and it matches, they open the envelope, take out the ballot inside that does not have your name on it, quickly check for write-in votes and then put the ballot through a scan-tron machine.

Trump is full of shit. This system has been perfected over decades.

You know, it’d be nice if you folks actually knew what you were talking about.

It’s not a corrupt system, it NEEDS to be implemented country wide because of Covid.

The ONLY problem with this system is whether the vote counting machines are being hacked by our own government.

Other than that, it’s a really good system.

I really meant procedure , then, an ad hoc procedure that the Supreme court delivered in response to the arisen issue. Untested, it has yet to become a precedent

It is a ruling which is becoming a possible precedent.

In reference to that, a woman got on the airwaves saying that she has found some non descript ballots , in some garbage or amother, and that proves Trump s assessment that some bogus ballots are the problem to the veracity of the whole system. That is concerting , because his off repeated tweets of how the thing can be rigged. But then, how does one know whether the woman was not some kind of paid operative?

In reference to that, a woman got on the airwaves saying that she has found some non descript ballots , in some garbage or amother, and that proves Trump s assessment that some bogus ballots are the problem to the veracity of the whole system. That is concerting , because his off repeated tweets of how the thing can be rigged. But then, how does one know whether the woman was not some kind of paid operative?

Sorry, duplicate

What if?

POLITICO

LIVE UPDATES: 2020 ELECTIONS

Mulvaney: ‘You can absolutely guarantee a peaceful transition of power’ if Trump loses

But Trump has previously refused to commit to upholding the core tenet of American democracy.

Mick Mulvaney, the former acting White House chief of staff, predicted Thursday that President Donald Trump would “absolutely” help facilitate a peaceful transition of power if Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is ultimately declared the winner of the 2020 election.

“I recommend that he accept a peaceful transition of power, which I think he would do absolutely anyway,” Mulvaney said of Trump in an interview on CNBC.

“Look, the president is a fighter, there’s no question about it, and you’ll see him fighting down to the very last,” Mulvaney added, mentioning Trump’s threat in the hours after Election Day to challenge the race’s results in the Supreme Court.

But “at the end of that process, [if] Joe Biden’s the president, you can absolutely guarantee a peaceful transition of power,” Mulvaney said. “I just hope the same is true on the other side.”

Despite those remarks from Mulvaney — who served as the president’s top aide from January 2019 through March 2020 — Trump has previously refused to commit to a peaceful transition, citing his complaints about the expansion of mail-in voting amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Concerns about a potential handoff of presidential power have ramped up since Wednesday morning, when Trump prematurely declared that he had won the election, demanded that vote-counting be halted and described the early results as a “fraud on the American public.”

Trump is currently trailing Biden in the race to secure 270 electoral votes, by a margin of 264-214, and remaining contests in the key battlegrounds of Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania are too close to call.

Trump’s campaign has filed lawsuits to stop the counting of ballots in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia, and it is contesting ballots in Nevada. The campaign also could appeal a decision to permit late-arriving absentee ballots in North Carolina that were mailed before the election deadline.

Additionally, the campaign has announced that it will request a recount in Wisconsin, and it could soon call for one in Michigan, as well.

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That’s absurd. The only other problem with mail in ballots is that only people with property can vote (just like the framers set it up).

There are not “non descript ballots”… just people who didn’t want to vote and threw their mail in the trash or recycling bin. This country is still free enough that we still have the RIGHT not to vote!

Now about computer rigging ma be a different bird offeahers, as when it appeared way back when Jeff bush flipped Florida for his brother.

Here AI may be telling us to play waiting game to avoid violence ?

Or is that too deep?

But that is very iffy and maybe near the deepest of deep ends.

But that’s an unsolvable , on a level that really is an immeasurable bottomless pit, that defies comprehension. >>>>>>>>>>^^^<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<^^^^^^^^^<<<.>¿¿¿

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"The New York Times

2020 Election

NEWS ANALYSIS

Win or Lose, Trump Will Remain a Powerful and Disruptive Force

Even if he is defeated, he has made clear that he would not shrink from the scene.

President Trump on Wednesday morning at the White House. Trailing former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Mr. Trump sought immediately to discredit the election based on invented fraud claims.

Nov. 4, 2020

WASHINGTON — If President Trump loses his bid for re-election, as looked increasingly likely on Wednesday, it would be the first defeat of an incumbent president in 28 years. But one thing seemed certain: Win or lose, he will not go quietly away.

Trailing former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Mr. Trump spent the day trying to discredit the election based on invented fraud claims, hoping either to hang onto power or explain away a loss. He could find a narrow path to re-election among states still counting, but he has made clear that he would not shrink from the scene should he lose."

Son, you better understand, if by some miracle you manage to oust our guy,

It’s Trump 2024.

Yeah!