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tgenerico

(109 posts)
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 03:43 PM Sep 2020

What's the Plan if Trump Tweets That He's Won Re-election? (NY Times Op Ed)

What’s the Plan if Trump Tweets That He’s Won Re-election?

On election night in 2012, Barack Obama trailed Mitt Romney by some 30,000 votes at the moment Mr. Obama was projected to win his re-election bid. By the time the votes were tallied, Mr. Obama had five million more votes than Mr. Romney.

In 2016, when Donald Trump accepted Hillary Clinton’s concession, he was leading the popular vote count by nearly one million votes. When all the votes were counted, he lost the popular vote by nearly three million.

This longstanding and well-documented phenomenon, known as the “blue shift,” opens the door to a troubling scenario on election night this year.

Imagine: It’s midnight, and the electoral map looks quite red. But news networks and election officials aren’t calling the swing states, as this year’s record numbers of mail-in and absentee ballots have yet to be fully counted. Mr. Trump, leading in the popular vote, decides he’s seen enough. He takes to his social media platforms and declares that he has won re-election and will accept no other result. He tells his tens of millions of followers that the Democrats and the press will try to change the result and steal the election. The door to unrest and constitutional crisis swings wide open.

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have all pledged to crack down on misinformation around voting and electoral outcomes. Perhaps in the above scenario they append a label to the president’s posts saying that the information is disputed and that the results are not in. They could introduce friction into the algorithms to slow the reach of the posts.

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What's the Plan if Trump Tweets That He's Won Re-election? (NY Times Op Ed) (Original Post) tgenerico Sep 2020 OP
Right They Should Tell What Their Plan Is For All To See Me. Sep 2020 #1
Let him.. it's been made pretty clear that all votes will be counted Thekaspervote Sep 2020 #2
Biden should tweet out as soon as California closes he is the winenr and beat trump to the punch. SoonerPride Sep 2020 #3
Twitter, FB and YouTube should disable his account on Election Night. cayugafalls Sep 2020 #4
Trump has already decided if not demanded he be the winner... Thomas Hurt Sep 2020 #5
Laugh at him. Laelth Sep 2020 #6

Me.

(35,454 posts)
1. Right They Should Tell What Their Plan Is For All To See
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 03:47 PM
Sep 2020

and is just as silly a notion as their conjecture about election night.

Thekaspervote

(32,605 posts)
2. Let him.. it's been made pretty clear that all votes will be counted
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 03:48 PM
Sep 2020

FBI issues PSA contradicting dotard that the winner must be know on election night


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214125912

He can’t stop ballots from being counted..even mcturtle weighed in on that one. Dotard isn’t the only one on the ballot

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
3. Biden should tweet out as soon as California closes he is the winenr and beat trump to the punch.
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 03:48 PM
Sep 2020

Claim it first.

Even well ahead of any projections.

Why not?

cayugafalls

(5,629 posts)
4. Twitter, FB and YouTube should disable his account on Election Night.
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 03:48 PM
Sep 2020

For the sake of the country and the good of the nation.

It is the only sane thing to do.

If trump the fuckwit is able to confuse the masses, then we are in for a real problem.

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