Indeed, the outcome of the 2020 presidential election is still very much in doubt, and likely won’t become clearer until Pennsylvania and Michigan finish counting all their votes. We’re also waiting for official projections in Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin and a handful of other contests. But since Trump made it clear that he would take this route, we talked over how we would handle things in the FiveThirtyEight newsroom.
Here’s where we landed: If Trump falsely or prematurely declares victory … our priorities would be (i) don’t let Trump’s false/premature claim dominate our coverage or alter our framing of the night, while (ii) still making clear to readers why the claim is false/premature and carries no legal power.
He won’t, because you get a sense that people like Fauci are sensitive and scientific. And these kind of people really care about others. They are willing to even work under arseholes to save the powerless.
Yes, but that’s also among the few positives:
Trump did better in 2020 with all voter groups compared to 2016, except white males, which again ought to have been clinically impossible in a country without mass psychosis.
Maybe. But he turns 80 next month, and is just waiting to be fired now. He tried to fight covid, and the American people have chosen not to do so. Why waste his time tilting at windmills? It is one thing to work under arseholes, quite another to waste the last years of your life trying to
protect arseholes from the consequences of their own choices.
Thankfully, the security apparatuses in the USA have been designated “enemy within”, so he can’t muster a coup even if he wants and yes, I am thinking those Turkish thoughts about the US. Anyway, votes will be counted.
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