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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump Is Attacking the Florida Recounts Because He Hates Democracy
The president is lying about election theft in Florida as part of a calculated strategy to shut down an essential part of the election process.https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-florida-recounts/
Donald Trump is wrong about a lot of stuff. But there is nothing that the president is more consistently wrong about than counting votes.
Since he began campaigning for the presidency in 2015, Trump has positioned himself as a win-at-any-cost politician who delights in disregarding the minutia of electoral democracy. He invites his followers to do the same. Trump reimagines results all the time. Famously, he claimed he won a massive landslide victory in the 2016 election where he actually finished 2.9 million votes behind Democrat Hillary Clinton. To protect his fragile ego, the president fosters fantasies about voter fraud.
The president is up to his old tricks as he lambastes the officials who are counting and recounting votes in the Florida Senate race between incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson and Republican Rick Scott. That contest is in too-close-to-call limbo, with Scott leading by about 12,500 votes out of 8.2 million cast. The margin is just 0.15 percent. So, now, amid a flurry of confusing and contradictory reports of uncounted and miscounted votes across Floridaa state with a long history of stumbles when it comes to organizing fair and functional electionscounty officials are conducting a machine recount in the Senate race.
Recounts are also proceeding in the governors race, where Republican Ron DeSantis has a 33,684-vote lead over Democrat Andrew Gillum, and in the contest for state secretary of agriculture, where Democrat Nikki Fried leads Republican Matt Caldwell by 5,326 votes.
The process is demanding, as the deadline for reviewing all three races is Thursday. Trump is making things harder by promoting unsubstantiated claims about fraud and portraying the process as chaotically beyond repair. The presidents solution? Repeat the folly of the 2000 Bush v. Gore Florida recount fight and simply declare the Republican the winner.
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Donald Trump Is Attacking the Florida Recounts Because He Hates Democracy (Original Post)
Celerity
Nov 2018
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wiggs
(7,810 posts)1. Easy case for dems to make. Replay all the musings Trumup has had about the world's dictators
and how he envies their power.
dem4decades
(11,269 posts)2. Could Florida learn how to design a god damn ballot?
The butterfly ballot in 2000 and now the Broward ballot. You're killing us.
Celerity
(43,102 posts)3. I have never lived in Florida
I live in Los Angeles atm.