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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat's the Plan if Trump Tweets That He's Won Re-election? (NY Times Op Ed)
Whats the Plan if Trump Tweets That Hes 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 Clintons 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: Its midnight, and the electoral map looks quite red. But news networks and election officials arent calling the swing states, as this years record numbers of mail-in and absentee ballots have yet to be fully counted. Mr. Trump, leading in the popular vote, decides hes 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 presidents 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
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Me.
(35,454 posts)1. Right They Should Tell What Their Plan Is For All To See
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
FBI issues PSA contradicting dotard that the winner must be know on election night
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214125912
He cant stop ballots from being counted..even mcturtle weighed in on that one. Dotard isnt 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.
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.
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.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)5. Trump has already decided if not demanded he be the winner...
Laelth
(32,017 posts)6. Laugh at him.
His chances of actually winning are very low.
-Laelth