While campaigning in 2016, Donald Trump had told a rally in Iowa: “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” Trump’s comments came amid several highly publicized mass shootings. Mass shootings and gun violence are an American addiction and still continue.
Just how angry President Donald Trump is with losing his presidential reelection was made clear Saturday in his own words when he spent an hour threatening the Georgia Secretary of State with vague assertions that would go away if only he would recalculate the state’s election count.
More than four days before the actual election date, the early voting and mail-in ballots have surpassed more than 50% of all the votes cast in 2016. The exact number is difficult to calculate because mail-in ballots are at unusual levels because of the pandemic impact on behaviour.