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US divisions harden amid big increase in belief vote was unfair

Saturday, 14 November 2020 2:00 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 14 November 2020 5:14 AM ]

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Ramin Mazaheri

Press TV, Chicago

The United States presidential election continues to be unfinished and disputed. Democrat Joe Biden holds a slim lead but President Donald Trump has significant public support from Republicans at the grassroots and elite levels to not concede.

The election was preceded by months of controversy regarding the unprecedented use of mail-in ballots, which appeared to swing the election in the slight favor of Joe Biden at the last minute.

A recent poll showed that a whopping 70% of Republicans believe the election was not “free and fair”. Polls prior to the vote revealed just half the number of Republican skeptics.

Democrats say vote fraud has not yet been proven, and that Trump must concede to prevent increasing distrust towards the nation’s electoral process. But this is the third disputed election in the last six tries. Many are insisting that this election must be judicially vetted in order to prevent even more alienation, apathy, abstention and anger; others say the economic, social and health disaster caused by the coronavirus makes this not the year to insist on transparency.

The repeated electoral chaos is likely to undermine perpetual US claims that their model of democracy is not only the best but should be emulated around the world. Harvard ranked US election integrity just 57th in the world, and that was last year.

The corporate-dominated US mainstream media appears to have a united front that Biden won the election and that any legal challenges are frivolous. A significant percentage of over 70 million Trump voters don’t appear to agree. Weeks of chaos and tensions appear certain, as the Electoral College - the vote which actually decides the US president - doesn’t meet until December 14.

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