Trump likely to put up challenges to election result: Former CIA director
Former CIA Director John Brennan has said that US President Donald Trump is likely to “put up challenges” to the results of the presidential election on Tuesday.
In an interview with CNN, Brennen said Trump has made indications that he is not prepared to accept the election outcome that has Democratic candidate “Joe Biden as the victor.”
Brennen said this is unprecedented as former US presidents had never refused to accept “free and fair election” results.
A winner in the November 3 election might not be declared on Tuesday night because of the volume of ballots cast by mail as election officials, who have already received a large influx of mail-in ballots over concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, warned that it may take extra days or weeks to tally them.
Pre-election voting has surpassed two-thirds of all ballots cast during the 2016 presidential election. Nearly 92 million Americans have voted, as a majority of states are reporting record early voting turnout in the 2020 election.
These votes represent about 43% of registered voters across the US, according to a survey of election officials in all 50 states and Washington, DC.
“It would be very, very proper and very nice if a winner were declared on Nov. 3, instead of counting ballots for two weeks, which is totally inappropriate and I don’t believe that that’s by our laws,” Trump said on Tuesday. “We’ll see what happens.”
Trump has suggested that voting by mail will result in voter fraud in spite of voting absentee himself in Florida primaries earlier this year.
Trump also declined to say on multiple occasions if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power if Joe Biden wins the election.
During an NBC News town hall earlier this month, he said he would accept a peaceful transfer of power but noted he wanted an "honest election."
This comes as Biden still maintains a substantial lead over Trump nationwide, according to a new CNN poll.
While 53% of likely voters support Biden, 41% back Trump, with the former vice president holding a lead in every CNN poll on the matchup since 2019.
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