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Donald Trump, You’re Fired!
Now that it looks like Trump has lost the 2020 election, expect Trump’s behavior to get worse before it gets better.
At a little after 2 a.m. on November 4, just a couple of hours after election night, Donald Trump did one of the most surprising and distressing things he has done in the past four years. He openly stated that he was the winner of an election in which millions of valid ballots had yet to be counted. This included about 1.4 million uncounted ballots in Pennsylvania alone. Trump added that we should stop counting votes — and that he planned to take the election to the Supreme Court (should he lose). Even staunch Republicans like Chris Christie and Rick Santorum called Trump out on this, referring to Trump’s claims of fraudulent voting as a “mistake.” In the light of the day on Wednesday November 4, Trump had already begun filing lawsuits to disrupt legitimate ballot counting.
We have long known that the in-person votes would look good for Trump the day of the election. After all, he convinced his supporters that they shouldn’t vote by mail. As I write this blog on the evening of Wednesday November 5, Trump has all but lost the electoral college. Biden merely needs to hold onto his leads in Arizona and Nevada — where the remaining uncounted ballots seem to be coming from traditionally blue districts. I have to admit that I have been surprised to see how…
