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We Need All Hands on Deck to Stop a Coup
Trump wants the vote counting to stop and our democracy is at stake
President Donald Trump has declared victory on national television, claimed that his voters have been disenfranchised, and threatened to go to the Supreme Court to dispute the 2020 presidential election results. Regardless of the official ballot count, this declaration puts the president’s disdain for the electoral system in full display, and calls for a passionate, urgent, and coordinated defense of democracy.
“Millions of people voted for us tonight. A very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise that group of people,” the president said from the East Room of the White House to cheering supporters. “And we won’t stand for it. We were on our way to win the election. Frankly, we did win this election.”
It is important to call this what it is: a power grab by an autocratic, White supremacist authoritarian who has previously told the violent far-right group Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.”
“We want the law to be used in a proper manner, so we’ll be going to the U.S. Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop,” he added. “We don’t want them finding…
