One candidate could appear to be winning the US election in a “landslide” on the night, only to be declared the loser in the following days.
Mr Trump has been mounting his argument against mail voting for months. He has, in effect, been pre-emptively delegitimatising the election result.
“If Trump looks to be leading on election night due to this red mirage, he may try to claim all votes counted after are fraudulent,”“He has telegraphed this by attempting to associate ‘voter fraud’ with mail-in voting and sowing disinformation in states that benefit him.The polls do indeed show If Donald Trump loses because of mail votes, don’t expect him to make a graceful exit. Picture: Saul Loeb/AFPUnder America’s peculiar system, the goal for each candidate is not to win the popular vote, but to reach 270 electoral votes.
This is how Mr Trump won the election in 2016, even though he received 2.9 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton. He managed to scrape to narrow victories in a handful of key states, such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
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