Trump plans to seize on any mishaps as the ballots are being counted [View all]
Source: CNN
Trump plans to seize on any mishaps as the ballots are being counted
From CNN's Kaitlan Collins
As Donald Trump is watching the results come in Tuesday night, he is expected to repeat the same playbook he’s used for years: take any simple mishap, whether technological or human error, at the polling sites and exaggerate it to fit his narrative of election fraud.
Already tonight, the former president is claiming there are reports of massive fraud in Philadelphia, though officials there say they do not know what he is talking about and there is no truth to that claim.
But there’s one major difference from 2020. Trump doesn’t have control of the Justice Department or any high-ranking officials to pressure, like he did with Attorney General Bill Barr four years ago. Barr described his efforts in the weeks following the 2020 election as “Whac-A-Mole.” None of the most outlandish fraud claims were ever borne out.
Trump also won’t be watching the race tonight with one of his “worst influences” in 2020, as aides described him then. Rudy Giuliani is not at Mar-a-Lago and was instead expected to be at the convention center.
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