Joe Biden Assures American Amid Election Crisis Which is Taking Place During a Pandemic
Mukta Ahmad|November 4, 2020
Americans are in the middle of a pandemic and an election crisis. And in the midst of it all, they are dealing with a panicked president.
“Frankly, we did win this election,” stated President Trump on election night, even though only about 30 to 40 percent of the votes came in for states like Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, which are all key battleground states. The president also kept referring to states where he is losing as “rigged,” and they should “stop the count.”
Joe Biden spoke to the American people from Willmington, DE, about an hour before President Trump, and this is what he said, “As I’ve said all along, it’s not my place or Donald Trump’s place to declare who’s won the election. That is the decision of the American people.”
He also said that he is “optimistic” and “feel good” about being on track to win the election. Unlike President Trump, Biden did not say they won the election but assured that every vote must be counted to know who won the election.
On the day of the election, Donald Trump was leading in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and other battleground states. However, the next morning, those states flipped to Joe Biden except for Pennsylvania and Georgia.
In the early morning of November 4th, Donald Trump sued Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania to stop counting ballots and said that he would ask for a recount in Wisconsin.
These are the two tweets the president of the United States makes in the early hours of Wednesday.
Donald Trump tweeted, “How come every time they count Mail-In ballot dumps, they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction?” President Trump, in August, sued New Jersey to stop it from allowing voters to vote-by-mail.
Bernie Sanders said on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, “you’re going to have a situation, I suspect, in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, other states, where they are going to be receiving huge amounts of mail-in ballots.” He also said that those states would not start counting mail-in ballots until election polls close or even days after, and he was right.
President Trump asked his followers to vote in person on the day of the election; whereas, democratic candidate Joe Biden urged voters to vote by mail to stay safe. So when mail-in-ballots are counted, at least 80 percent of them go to Biden.
There are millions of people who voted by mail and those votes are likely to be Democratic voters. “What polls show, and what studies have shown is that, for whatever reason, Democrats are more likely to use mail-in-ballots,” added Bernie Sanders. This explains why Trump was leading in many states at the begging of the day, but by night, as the mail-in-ballots are counted, Biden’s numbers went up the next morning.
President Trump also tweeted this along with the tweet about mail-in ballots. “They are finding Biden votes all over the place — in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. So bad for our Country!”
Instead of asking the American people to be patient about the vote count, Donald Trump is acting, as one of the CNN reporters said, “like a loser.”
Disclaimer: This story was originally written for The Hound Newspaper (WBCR’s monthly publication).
