It is extremely irresponsible for any networks to play this live. The president is lying on live TV about election processes across the country.
They're not "finding" ballots. There are state laws — that Republicans refused to change — that prevented the counting of ballots before Election Day.
The ballots being counted are mail-in ballots cast before or on Election Day. Those are legal votes. The pandemic led to increased mail-in votes. That, in addition to the counting restrictions, is why several states are still counting. Trump is lying nonstop.
All of the networks, at least, have now cut away, by my quick flipping.
CNN and Fox News have stayed on it, though.
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That is why we got what we got from Trump tonight. Nevada and Pennsylvania are looking to be securely in Biden's camp once all of the votes are counted in those states. Biden is leading is Arizona and could hold on to it. Georgia could shift to Biden yet tonight.
The president is attempting to lie, stir up conspiracies, and even possibly incite violence — because he knows he is losing. He lied about results, he lied about cities, he lied about elections, he lied about vote-counting, he lied about court cases and rulings, etc, etc, etc.
Trump lies that he’s won states that haven’t been called by anyone because of all of the outstanding votes (or, with Arizona, have been called by Fox News for Biden), then says there actually are still outstanding votes. He’s basically just riffing on the current results.
Trump then went into complete lie territory, claiming victory and "fraud" when he has no victory and when there are many states too close to call because many, many ballots remain to be counted — in several states because Republicans refused to allow counting before Tuesday.
Trump also said, "We'll be going to the Supreme Court." But, we're yet to know what that would mean, exactly, but a lot of the things he's mad about aren't really coherent thoughts.
Oh, it’s 1:05a again. In less than 47 hours, it will be Election Day 2020.
In less than 65 hours, the first polls will be closing. In less than 72 hours, the last polls will be closing.
Whatever else you’re doing in that time, make sure your vote is cast or otherwise in by then.
As votes come in and are counted Tuesday and the days that follow — depending on different states’ rules and depending on what the race and the states look like — it could be a lot to handle and it could get scary. Do what you can, if that becomes the case, but protect yourself.