Pew Research tracked partisanship trends in America from 1994 to 2017 by measuring responses to the same questions about things like views on gay marriage and immigration. That’s been a challenge as Trump and the Republican Party have perfected the creation of one’s own reality and the belittling of the reality-based community.

Trump has voiced his belief that there is widespread ballot fraud and as a result there’s already some degree of civil unrest. “We’re getting killed on ‘count all the votes.’ Who the hell could be against that?” Jeffrey Toobin quoted Baker as saying in his book about the recount, “Too Close to Call.” Gore’s team thought it had the “moral authority to make his case,” according to a New York Times report from two days after Election Day. An attorney who testified before the Supreme Court in the Bush v. Gore Florida recount in 2000 is predicting litigation ahead in a 2020 election battle that could stretch well past Election Day in battleground states or those states with divided government. Bush v. Gore was the Supreme Court decision that halted vote-counting in Florida during the 2000 election, which Bush won narrowly. Those are the kinds of things that would cause a lot of concern when somebody is running for president of the United States," he said. Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham repeatedly dodged questions about if there are any other women he has had affairs with during a cringeworthy press conference on Friday.

It’s more than the press had to contend with in 2000, and it’s an unwinnable scenario. The case is back in the spotlight ahead of November’s vote, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. "Biden has got an army of lawyers ready, and I know that the Republican side has an army of lawyers. Given all this, doesn’t it necessarily follow that we would continue down this garden path of separate realities when it comes to an initially indeterminate election outcome? They argued that the process for determining the intent of the voters based on “hanging chads”, “dimpled chads”, or other similar partial impressions in the paper ballots was not accurate. But man, did we think we had it bad back in the 15-point difference world. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. Dated Nov. 1, 2000, it reads “Bush 305, Gore 171, Toss-Up 62.” Florida, where our nightly polls had shown us holding a five-point lead, is labeled “Lean Bush.” Clare Malone is a senior political writer for FiveThirtyEight. The lawsuit says that a new State Board of Elections system would allow absentee ballots to be cast late and without adequate witness verification, “which invites fraud, coercion, theft, and otherwise illegitimate voting.” The new rule would allow ballots that lack information to be amended solely by affidavit and without the need for the voter to complete an entirely new ballot. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. Gore's campaign challenged the result in the courts, and over an intense month of legal debate the question made it all the way to the Florida Supreme Court. Following a recount, Bush won Florida by 537 votes, a margin of 0.009 per cent. While there are systems in place to address the usual ballot errors, Spencer told the Washington Examiner that officials should be prepared to process a "fire hose of ballots.". ", "These rulings are victories for Iowa and Ohio voters," said Trump 2020 general counsel Matthew Morgan, accusing Democrats of "constant attempts to tear down election safeguards and steal this election for Joe Biden. Bush’s post-election effort in Florida was led by the former secretary of state James A. Baker. President Trump said that while he now feels like he has recovered from COVID-19, when he was still struggling with the virus, it left him fatigued. Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. Brian Kemp and other state and local officials for the way they handled reopening the state's public schools. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. This isn’t simply a preview of November 2020 — this is a recap of November 2000, when the contest between Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. Missouri’s economy is rebounding better than state economists projected over the summer, allowing Gov.

Already, Americans say they are worried about something going wrong. Critics of Trump, also with an eye on Bush v Gore, are asking Barrett to promise to recuse herself from any Supreme Court deliberations about the election result.

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They further argued that the Florida decision was fundamentally right; the Constitution requires that every vote be counted. In a statement, RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel called the rulings "a win for voters, a win for election security, and a win for maintaining confidence in the electoral process" and charged that Democrats' efforts to alter election procedures ahead of Nov. 3 was "opening the door to chaos and confusion. The Commission on Presidential Debates officially scrapped the planned Thursday debate between President Trump and Joe Biden. Democrats generally accept fact-based conclusions (alongside their partisan, subjective beliefs), and Republicans — or at least the Republican Party — generally eschew the conclusions of experts on things like climate change and COVID-19 (alongside their partisan, subjective beliefs). An association with a one-time domestic terrorist that caused Barack Obama headaches in his 2008 presidential bid is rearing its head again in a Texas House race. The chief of Boston's largest police union is speaking out against the city Police Department's decision to cancel time off for officers in the weeks leading up to the election. The market was not pleased. It’s difficult to imagine similar sentiments in December 2020 if the Supreme Court intervened. Trump and his allies believe that having a complete nine-justice Supreme Court already in place for the election is vital, in case of a contested result from the November 3 vote. In 1999, there was a 15-point difference between Democrats and Republicans on these questions. "They came in two months later because they were lost somewhere. But the same survey also found that 56 percent of people thought Gore should concede. I try to think empirically about America, her culture, people and oh-so-screwy politics. The open seat on the Supreme Court has only complicated matters. Gore’s effort was led by the former secretary of state Warren Christopher. It speaks to a certain satisfaction some people had with the general political state of things: Either Bush or Gore would do just fine. But all I found were the first cancer cells that have metastasized in our political system over the past 20 years.