Nun sind es nur noch einige Wochen bis zur Wahl in den USA.
Je mehr ich dazu lese, desto mehr steigt meine Befürchtung, dass das eine ganz hässliche Nummer werden könnte.
The Election That Could Break America
According to sources in the Republican Party at the state and national levels, the Trump campaign is discussing contingency plans to bypass election results and appoint loyal electors in battleground states where Republicans hold the legislative majority. With a justification based on claims of rampant fraud, Trump would ask state legislators to set aside the popular vote and exercise their power to choose a slate of electors directly. The longer Trump succeeds in keeping the vote count in doubt, the more pressure legislators will feel to act before the safe-harbor deadline expires.
The Trump-campaign legal adviser I spoke with told me the push to appoint electors would be framed in terms of protecting the people’s will. Once committed to the position that the overtime count has been rigged, the adviser said, state lawmakers will want to judge for themselves what the voters intended.
“The state legislatures will say, ‘All right, we’ve been given this constitutional power. We don’t think the results of our own state are accurate, so here’s our slate of electors that we think properly reflect the results of our state,’ ” the adviser said. Democrats, he added, have exposed themselves to this stratagem by creating the conditions for a lengthy overtime.
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I wonder how many people are ready for just how bad the next six weeks plus are going to be. This is going to be the most dangerous election since 1860, with substantial odds that America as we know it will be damaged or even destroyed 1/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) September 23, 2020
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Eine friedliche Übergabe der Macht wollte er [Anm. Trump] auf Anfrage nicht versprechen. Ohne Wahlbetrug werde es ohnehin nicht dazu kommen, wiederholte er seine Verschwörungstheorie.
Trump will friedliche Machtübergabe nach Wahl nicht garantieren
vor vor 1 month, 2 weeks aktualisiert.
