I hope the Biden campaign is ready for when trump declares victory & immediately

[themaguffin]

steps on trump's strategic ploy to be the perceived winner by near concurrently declaring victory himself, so that the coverage is the same.

I hate it. It shouldn't matter, but that fed into public perception with W.

This shouldn't be this way, but this is partly what Hillary was talking about.

Concede no ground. Fuck them up. Take it to them.

[Demsrule86]

1. Who cares what Trimp says?

Networks call the race ...not Trump.

[marybourg]

6. Secretaries of State for each state certify the winner

in their state. All else is entertainment.

[11 Bravo]

19. Tens of millions of fucking idiots.

And Lard Butt has at least one inexplicably heavily viewed network in his back pocket.
Sad, but true.

[lame54]

2. He should do it first

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Bingo . . . nt

[TwilightZone]

4. It won't matter. When the AP calls it, it's goodnight Donald.

No one outside of the die-hards will care what he says.

[themaguffin]

8. Hopefully - again, it shouldn't matter

[TwilightZone]

12. Nah, it won't matter.

If the AP and all the networks call it, no one is going to listen to his whining. This is especially true if it's the blowout it looks like it very well may be.

[empedocles]

5. Psycho trump will strike again

[tinrobot]

7. Biden shouldn't declare himself the winner, but he should speak early and nip it in the bud.

Something simple, like: "We're confident about the numbers, but are waiting for all the votes to be counted. Anyone who declares victory early is not respecting the will of the voters."

[themaguffin]

9. Yeah, that makes sense

[TwilightZone]

14. Excellent.

I approve this message.

[Doreen]

10. Trump said he will claim early victory if it looks like he is ahead.

What is his idea of him being ahead? 20 points behind, 10 points behind, 5 points behind, or 1 point ahead?

[beachbumbob]

11. The initial tallies in key states like Florida and a Ohio will show huge Biden

Leads as they count mail in ballots early and those counts will hit minutes after polls close. Realistic biden could declare victory using trumps logic by 9pm....when you understand when votes are counted, and numbers released, nothing favors trump in Ohio, Florida, Arizona and even Texas. The only hold ups will be Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and they may not even matter. Take a breath and chill.

[themaguffin]

15. If Biden can get FL, wow, it's over

[beachbumbob]

18. Actually Ohio or Florida seals GOP fate and we will know that by

8 or 9 pm (central time)

[Clearly fogged in]

13. I googled - trump loses election - many times today

I wonder if the results are consistent still?

[C_U_L8R]

16. How far will a malignant narcissist humiliate himself?

We all know Trump will do audaciously stupid stuff but I have a feeling he might run for cover in the face of real defeat. It truly comes down to whether we even knows what reality looks like.

[ooky]

17. All Joe's campaign has to say is "just another lie". The networks will take over from there as

they report vote totals and declare Biden the winner.

[beachbumbob]

20. Networks look at exit poll data and specific precinct/county votes and can

make the calls based on 40 or 50% of the vote count, sometimes more, sometimes less.

Like 2 or 3 counties in Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania that are bellweather for outcomes of the entire state with under performance or over performance.

[ooky]

22. Yep, so not much need to worry about Trump's lies. Nt

[helpisontheway]

21. I hope the media ignores the stunt and I hop FB and Twitter

deactivate his accounts for the night.

[beachbumbob]

24. Media won't ignore as it's all news worthy but also meaningless

[FloridaBlues]

23. Bidens campaign staff and lawyers are pretty much on target throughout this campaign

I feel pretty confident they are ready and probably expecting this nonsense from trump.

[Rice4VP]

25. The remedy is for states to kick things in gear and count the absentee ballots.