Analysis: The basic asymmetry of their goals could give the president an edge if the election is clouded. But it also signals he's afraid he will lose a fair vote.
WASHINGTON — Democrat Joe Biden's campaign is trying to win at the ballot box. President Donald Trump is maneuvering to hold power.The president has long hinted at the basic asymmetry of his goals and Biden's, and on Wednesday he again refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power regardless of the count of votes.
At the same time, his friends, family and political advisers are advocating for voter intimidation and violence after the election, and Trump is racing to confirm a new Supreme Court justice in short order, which could safeguard his re-election if the battle ends up in litigation. Both men predicted a Trump victory, but cited the same unfounded notion that Democrats would"steal this election" that Donald Trump Jr. used as his premise for encouraging every man and woman who supports the president to form an"army for Trump's election security operation." The elder Trump has repeatedly told his backers to try to vote twice, while also leveling unsupported accusations that his political opponents will engage in election fraud.
Theidon drew a parallel between Trump and former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, whose 2000 election she monitored. Fujimori won in a vote that the international community treated as illegitimate, and ultimately gave up power months later. "The American people need to be prepared that we very well may not know the outcome of the election night because of the massive amount of mail-in votes this year," he said."All of us who care about our democracy must demand that every single vote be counted and every single leader be committed to a peaceful transfer of power."
Americans have seldom had to grapple with the question of whether a peaceful transfer of power would occur following an election. The most tenuous window in presidential election history came after the 1876 vote, when contested results in Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina and Oregon — white supremacist Democrats had intimidated Black voters across the Southern states — prevented either candidate from winning a clear majority of electors.
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