... So reads the Editorial in today’s South China Morning Post. My comment at the site:
Dear SCMP Editors: stop this hyperventilating.Gore v Bush took *five weeks* in the courts and America survived. For all Trump's bluster, he is entitled to seek court-mandated recounts. I don't expect he will win those, but until all states are *certified* and the Electoral College voters have voted (mid December, iirc), Joe Biden is not even officially "president-elect”.
As for the rest of your scenarios, they are overwrought. Power will be handed over peacefully on January 20. Trump will not barricade himself in the White House; that’s delusional.
ADDED:
Two things can be true at once: (1) Trump may be bloviating, exaggerating -- hysterical, even. And (2) There may be some irregularities (deliberate or glitches) in the voting, which need recounting.
Even the New York Times acknowledges mistakes in the vote. Though you wouldn’t know it from the headline “”No, Dominion voting machined did not cause widespread voting problems”. In the text, if one can be bothered to actually read it (and many people don’t), it reveals that there were indeed software problems that miscounted votes in Michigan and Georgia, in one case mistakenly giving the race to a Democrat, when a recount -- demanded by Republican observers -- gave it to the sitting Republican, and in another case misallocating over 5,000 votes to Biden instead of Trump, and which again flipped the results.
So, while it seems that there are not enough mistakes/glitches/whatever, out there to overturn the Biden victory, it’s wrong to say, as much of the MSM media does, that “Trump claims, without evidence, that there are vote irregularities”. There clearly is evidence of some irregularities -- even the New York Times says so!
By the way: the NYT headline has changed online from that highlighted above to “No, Dominion voting machines did not delete Trump votes”, as if in response to criticisms that words like “widespread” are subjective. Though “delete” is also a bit of slippery word. There were Trump votes misallocated. See Viva Frei, for example.
