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You must also find it massively irresponsible for Trump to state he won the election as early as Wednesday morning. Fortunately, his statements, like those of
by js2 6y ago
You must also find it massively irresponsible for Trump to state he won the election as early as Wednesday morning.
Fortunately, his statements, like those of the media, aren’t how the winner is determined. Rather, all the votes are counted and then certified. The media waits until the unofficial counts are outside of the reach of recounts. Trump’s legal challenges are contradictory: he’s arguing to continue counting in states where he is behind and stop counting in states where he is ahead. It doesn’t work that way.
After 2000, the media has been very conservative in waiting to call elections. In any case, they’ve twice miscalled a presidential election but it didn’t impact the ultimate winner, because at the end of the day, we follow the rule of law.
- ceilingcorner 6y agoYes, of course it was irresponsible for Trump to do so. That has nothing to do with my comment, which is about the news media.
- js2 6y agoFair enough, I addressed that part of your comment too.