Saturday 15 August 2020

Will Mike Pence last the course?

There have been rumours for a long time that at the last moment Donald Trump will drop Mike Pence as his running-mate for the November election and go for someone who will lift his chances of being reelected. Trump is so desperate to get reelected that I believe he will do almost anything to make sure he does. Dropping Mike Pence must be on his shortlist, especially now that Joe Biden has selected Senator Kamala Harris to be his running-mate. Kamala Harris versus Mike Pence in a TV debate? Pence will lose, if only because he is such an uninspiring personality. For Trump to match Biden and Harris he would need to turn to someone like Nikki Haley, former US ambassador to the United Nations, who would undoubtedly spice up the president's campaign. But right now Trump is spending most of his time trying to undermine the US Postal Service so that he can force people to go out and vote on November 3 rather than rely on mail voting. Voting by mail scares Trump because he has convinced himself that it will lead to mass fraud, in other words he might not win. If mail voting does go ahead despite the lack of proper funding, the Postal Service has already warned that the millions of postal votes will not be counted in time to bring an instant result. It could take weeks or even months. This is all part of a dangerous game that is taking over the election process. The possibility of the 2020 presidential election going seriously wrong is now looking increasingly likely. The constitution itself is at stake. Even if Biden and Harris score a resounding victory in November there is a big chance that the incumbent president will stay put claiming fraud and inaccurate counting. I hope I'm wrong.

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