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Trump is impatient today. He's out there demanding that results be in by tonight. Worried much? Panicky or anything?
lame54
(39,298 posts)ShazzieB
(22,332 posts)flying_wahini
(8,253 posts)ScratchCat
(2,701 posts)Seriously. On any level. The vote totals are the vote totals, regardless of whether they finish counting tonight or next week.
MineralMan
(150,829 posts)He's going to be in a time bind to get the hell out of the country soon.
TwilightZone
(28,836 posts)Every case will be appealed, and he almost certainly won't be held in custody pending appeals.
He has no reason to leave anytime soon.
peppertree
(23,180 posts)LisaL
(47,365 posts)he thinks that if only election day votes are counted, he will win. A normal person would understand that a vote total is a vote total, regardless of when they finish counting, but I don't think we are talking about a normal person here.
Attilatheblond
(8,498 posts)Saw one county clerk/recorder demonstrate the time it takes to process the early or mail in ballots. Not something done in an instant.
Trump is neither rational nor even sane. He's Alvin the Chipmunk wanting Christmas to operate on his schedule. It's no wonder his mother was not fond of the little jerk.
Maeve
(43,346 posts)Altho I think Alvin was a nicer character...
Attilatheblond
(8,498 posts)TwilightZone
(28,836 posts)That's what this is all about. He wants to do it tonight.
Wednesdays
(21,874 posts)Also known as the "red mirage." Further votes counted tend to be blue.
So naturally he wants to stop the vote counting as early as possible.
LisaL
(47,365 posts)So in his head, that means that count should stop on election day, while he is still ahead.
jimfields33
(19,382 posts)Would cause less problems.
agingdem
(8,779 posts)the early vote gave him the lead temporarily..he declared victory and demanded the vote count stop...he was confident the MAGA idiots on the Supreme Court would anoint him the winner...they had precedent Gore v Bush....
he intends to do the same tonight...
Backseat Driver
(4,671 posts)MineralMan
(150,829 posts)As long as one is nowhere near him.
TwilightZone
(28,836 posts)MineralMan
(150,829 posts)TwilightZone
(28,836 posts)He is a has-been. He was a has-been even before he was president.
He is also a former president.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,282 posts)KnoxVol
(50 posts)Now I'm second guessing myself because I agreed with him on something. I want the votes in and decided tonight (not that I can demand it) and send this guy and his ilk sulking back into the forgotten pages of history.
Of course, this is for show only. This gets his people fired up and thinking it will be over quickly and anything other than an announcement tonight for him, they will scream all that "Stolen" nonsense.
ProfessorGAC
(76,106 posts)I share your sentiments.
Especially about the "stolen" nonsense if they lose.
BlueKota
(5,129 posts)threats it would probably speed things up.
Charlie Chapulin
(374 posts)In the form of a Blue Wave Landslide for Kamala.
intrepidity
(8,575 posts)about counting every last vote no matter how long it takes! I bet this actually happens.
The Unmitigated Gall
(4,710 posts)That Donald Dipshit suffer a crippling stroke.
By tonight.
Ocelot II
(129,702 posts)intrepidity
(8,575 posts)That would be quite the pickle for him, eh?
sprinkleeninow
(22,174 posts)William769
(59,147 posts)You can wish in one hand & sh*t in the other & see which one fills up first.
Bayard
(28,969 posts)Wicked Blue
(8,671 posts)Sort of a Trumplestiltskin grand finale.
Srkdqltr
(9,497 posts)Attilatheblond
(8,498 posts)GOP always howls when large cities finally show their totals because it shifts the winner suddenly and the GOP has the magas convinced that means a dump of 'illegal' ballots occurred. Get the magas all warmed up for violence.
louis-t
(24,581 posts)Then watch and listen to the pants shitting begin.
Iris
(16,858 posts)MineralMan
(150,829 posts)DownriverDem
(6,983 posts)trump will declare himself the winner being the fool he is.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)Hope22
(4,541 posts)He must be such a disappointment to himself. Once a successful blow hard now just blow!
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)tRump's corrupt idea is that the Election Day votes get counted that night (tonight). If things were like the 2020 election in the middle of a Covid epidemic then more Ds would vote early than Rs. But it is not like 2020.
However, I think tRump didn't get the memo and is banking on Rs leading the polls early, hence a midnight cutoff would benefit him.
But elections don't work that way and they don't get to change the rules in the middle of voting and counting, though that does not figure in tRump's calculations. And it is still not like 2020.
kimbutgar
(26,975 posts)Jack Valentino
(4,618 posts)Warpy
(114,494 posts)Those rural numbers come in by midnight, he thinks he can shriek "I WON I WON I WON" and then shuffle off to bed. When the urban numbers come inby the following morning, he'll start screaming "RIGGED RIGGED RIGGED!" and we'll be treated to another protracted spectacle of his lawyers trying to base lawsuits on anonymous blogs.
I sincerely hope the patience of the judicial system has been exhausted amd amu ;awsuit deemed frivolous, which would be all of them, is met with sanctions that will discourage his lawyers from letting him determine legal matters all by himself.
Mostly, I hope the polls were as wrong as usual and this election will end him, taking his party with him.
Rock Fly
(22 posts)Third world countries count their ballots on election day.
We are the United States of America. No reason to take several days. NONE!
ProudMNDemocrat
(20,672 posts)Shit hitting the fan time coming up!