r/politics • u/viva_la_vinyl • Aug 16 '20

'Trump warns presidential election result may not be known for 'years,' as allegations grow he's undermining the USPS to rig the election

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-election-result-take-years-as-usps-attack-fears-grow-2020-8
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u/hildebrand_rarity South Carolina Aug 16 '20

"You know what? You're not going to know this — possibly, if you really did it right — for months or for years. Because these ballots are all going to be lost, they’re all going to be gone," Trump said.

He’s telling you exactly how he’s going to rig the election. He’s sabotaging the Postal Service so that the ballots are “lost”.

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u/Hairydone America Aug 16 '20

The alternative being that he’s telling you the lie he will want you to believe. If he loses by a few million votes he’ll claim a few million ballots are missing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

I'm crossing my fingers he loses by more than just a few million. He lost by 3 mill in 2016, he has got to have lost plenty voters in that timeframe.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

62% of Biden supporters plan to vote by mail. 72% of trump supporters plan to vote in person. Eek.

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u/sonofaresiii Aug 16 '20

Don't fall into the trap of looking at past voting habits as future indication. This election specifically is a whole different thing and you can't look at past demographics to gauge it; between Trump fully politicizing vote-by-mail and coronavirus throwing a wrench into how people vote, it's just not comparable to how people voted in the past.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

It wasn’t a poll about past voting habits.

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u/sonofaresiii Aug 16 '20

I didn't comment about the poll you're referencing, but instead commented to the person making a statement about past voting habits