Trump Ramps Up Election Delegitimization Crusade: Results May ‘NEVER BE ACCURATELY DETERMINED’ | Talking Points Memo

President Trump on Thursday warned that results in the November presidential election may “NEVER BE ACCURATELY DETERMINED” in his latest effort to discredit mail-in voting amid the COVID-19 pandemic and preemptively delegitimize the results of the election.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1332596

So, Trump, how about another town hall?

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Let me get this straight, Orange Stain. It will only be a “legitimate” election if your voter suppression efforts succeed and you somehow eke out a win, is that it?

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President Liar speaks, The Commander-in-Chief-of-Lies speaks, the Master Buffoon-of-Lies speaks.

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Angry Black guy, Michael Steele is the best Michael Steele!

What a glorious, righteous preach! Watch it.

Ah, screw it. ETA

“MICHAEL STEELE: They do and they don’t care. I’ve talked to enough of them over the last few days, I’m exhausted. You know at this point, it’s like save who you can save because there is only so much you can do. There is only so much you can say. The fact that we have to — we have to literally beg people to wear a mask to save their own dumb ass from getting sick, I’m sorry. To me, it is beyond the imagination.

I’m so exhausted with this president, at this point, in the face of what we see happening on college campuses right now as we turn into fall, we all knew this was coming and yet, this administration has done jack about it. This president stands at a podium today and not only contradicts his CDC director, but basically says he purgered himself under oath before Congress, because he is saying something different from Donald Trump. The CDC director is telling us the truth and Donald Trump is literally lying to us and yet, 40% of the country looks at it and goes: ‘Yeah, I’m with stupid.’

I don’t know what more you can take before you say you’ve had enough. Because my heavens, this is too much for a country to go through. I don’t know what else to say. I don’t know how many more of these conversations we can have, Brian. I don’t know, I’m a little tired of it, can we just vote right now? Can we just get this done so we can heal the country and just move on?”

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ROFL! So in my “Big Unsolicited Ballot State” of WA that has been doing that successfully for years as the main voting method, I should now look for an in-person polling place?

Why has no reporter ever managed to ask him why he’s interfering with the elections in full VBM states this way?

Of course it goes without saying but I’ll say it anyway, he’s telegraphing that he knows he’s going to lose the election. I wonder how the GOP feels about that.

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  1. I love the smell of desperation in the morning. H/T Apocalypse Now.

  2. True the Vote, please do ensure that overseas military all get to vote. That’s not necessarily going to help Trump.

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He knows he’s going down in a landslide.

Proper dictators always insist that elections are free and fair, and the count is totally legitimate.

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The boy who cried (Chad) wolf.

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How much longer, Lord?! So, so tired of the chaos, drama and ragetweeting…I have to believe a couple dozen million other people are, too…

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Gosh, with all this going on, maybe 2016 was an illegitimate election too.

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The level of your stupidity may ‘NEVER BE ACCURATELY DETERMINED’

(Normal) humans are baffled.

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So he thinks he’s going to lose.

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“If it wasn’t for the Blue States we would have won!! So, you know, we won!! Everyone agrees!!”

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That’s what I’m thinking. He’s compelled by the iron laws of his personality disorder to deny that anything was a failure for him. So he’s simply defining his looming loss out of existence.

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President Trump on Thursday warned that results in the November presidential election may “NEVER BE ACCURATELY DETERMINED”

Technically true, but I, for one, would be happy to give Biden the benefit of the doubt.

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You should tweet that at his account!

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its a start

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Just like the narcissist he is, he hates the idea of voting because it’s out of his control. It’s only okay by him when the rubes are voting for him and even then he’d prefer to simply assume a throne. But everything else is just preposterous to him. Bottom line is he doesn’t think people should be allowed to vote. Period.

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I’m sure it was nicer at the top of the slippery slope, Steele, but this is what you and yours have wrought.

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