Vote-Counting is ‘Magic’: Far Right Melts Down Over Biden Gains
With ballots still uncounted in crucial Democratic strongholds and Joe Biden’s path to victory appearing significantly clearer on Wednesday morning, Donald Trump’s right-wing media allies wasted no time at all in backing his claim that counting all the votes was somehow cheating.
It’s a scenario election-monitors have warned of for months: the results of Tuesday’s nail-biter remain uncertain on Wednesday, with large swaths of mail-in ballots still uncounted in critical areas like Philadelphia and Detroit. Despite that, President Donald Trump declared victory in an early-morning announcement, threatening to call on a Supreme Court dominated by conservatives to stop remaining votes from being counted. Trump also took to Twitter in a since-flagged post, baselessly accusing Democrats of “trying to STEAL the Election.”
The remark served as a growing rallying cry among a far-right audience that, for months, has been primed—by Trump, and by the most compartmentalized media apparatus imaginable—to cry fraud over any result besides a Trump victory.