Vice President Kamala Harris told NBC News that her team is preparing for the possibility that Trump will declare himself the winner even if the results aren't yet settled.

Vice President Kamala Harris told NBC News that her team is preparing for the possibility that Trump will declare himself the winner, even if the results are not yet settled.

Vice President Kamala Harris, her campaign team and some of Donald Trump’s own allies say they expect the former president to quickly declare victory on election night — even if the outcome is not yet settled in key swing states.

Between the time it takes to process mail ballots and deal with provisional ballots in some battleground states, votes will not be fully tabulated on election night. Projections of who won a close presidential race might not come for days, similar to the 2020 election.

NBC News spoke to four Trump allies, all of whom speculated that the former president may be prepared to pull a repeat of 2020 and quickly declare he is the victor on election night when that is not yet certain. The sources all noted they did not have direct knowledge that this was a formal Trump campaign plan.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    20·
    12 hours ago

    So, just like last time…

    But also just like last time… early votes and mail in votes don’t even start being counted until after the polls close.

    So he will declare early victory, like last time, then be over-ridden by counting as the early votes get tabulated, like last time, and try to say that’s evidence of fraud, also like last time.

    I heard an interesting piece on the radio yesterday talking about Wisconsin.

    The votes in Wisconsin are counted by MUNICIPALITY, not by voting district, or even by county.

    They have some 1,800 tabulation centers and the results aren’t announced until all 1,800 are in.

    Link to radio show, good info:

    https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/10/22/wisconsin-voters-election-milwaukee-security-denier