By Aly Kamadia, Editor-In-Chief, iDose
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With twenty days separating us from ‘election day’ in America, current poll numbers are boiling President Donald Trump’s blood.
In his organization’s latest 40 000 simulations, Nate Silver gives Trump a 13 in 100 chance of winning.
Biden’s double digit leads in national polls and impressive leads in most swing states indicate that if the election were held today, Trump would lose.
Even if current state polling is as wrong as it was in 2016, Biden is still dancing his way to victory (319 to 219, according to the New York Times as of October 13th.)
Am I saying that Biden will have this contest wrapped up on ‘election day’?
Far from it.
As I’ve indicated on a number of occasions, the very idea of ‘election day’ is irrelevant at best. (As an example, check out the Transition Integrity Project, whose mainstream participants label the idea of ‘election day’ as ‘dangerous’.)
A desperate Trump is already in the process of doing everything he can to cheat his way to victory.
Recently, the maniac mustered up the audacity to publicly order his attorney general to indict and arrest both Biden and former President Barack Obama.
While Trump’s wishes were completely ignored, we must not forget to ask where his anti-democratic stunts are being welcomed.
Trump’s enablers are all too cheerful in capitalizing on the fact that a record number of mail-in ballots will be casted this year, given the pandemic.
Indeed, history has already noted that in the 2020 election, the Republican Party is hoping that any Biden victory is slim enough for them to seize upon and sow confusion, while ultimately undermining democracy by rejecting voters’ ballots.
Within a two-party system in which one is committed to rejecting voting outcomes, what can be said about the health of its democracy?
When we add in the existential threats of both climate change and potential nuclear catastrophe, both of which are significantly increased under Trump and his Republican Party, it becomes impossible to deny the seriousness of the moment.
And absurd to refuse that ever so precious civic duty that people in democracies enjoy: Your responsibility to vote should never be taken for granted.
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