Bernie Sanders predicted Trump's election night chaos with terrifying precision.

 

Bernie Sanders predicted Trump's election night chaos with terrifying precision

Predicting exactly how Election Day will run can be a dangerous game, as plenty of people learned on Tuesday — but Bernie Sanders got pretty damn close.

An old clip of the Vermont senator and former Democratic presidential candidate on The Tonight Show in October is doing the rounds as we await results of the U.S. election — despite Donald Trump's unfounded and false claims of early victory

In the Oct. 23 interview, Sanders explained to host Jimmy Fallon why he endorsed Biden for president after running against him for the nomination and discussed the role of Texas in the future of progressive politics. But most importantly, he laid out why this year's election results would take longer than usual — and what Trump's reaction on election night would likely be.

"Although the election is November 3rd and it's been said that we won't know the results until days later, when do you think we'll know the results?" asked Fallon at the time.

"Jimmy, you raise an important point, and I hope the American people understand it, because this is something I worry about," began Sanders.


"My view is every vote must be counted. For reasons which I don't have the time to get into tonight, you're going to have a situation, I suspect, in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, other states, where they are going to be receiving huge amounts of mail-in ballots. And unlike states like Florida or Vermont, they're not able, for bad reasons, to begin processing those ballots until, I don't know, Election Day or maybe when the polls close. That means you're going to have states dealing with perhaps millions of mail-in ballots."

Sanders is right — a record 64 million mail-in ballots were sent before Election Day, which is complicating the vote count this year. Key battleground states Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia received significant amounts of mail-in ballots — and in Pennsylvania, for one, the Trump campaign and Republicans blocked the processing of votes ahead of Election Day. This has caused a delayed vote count that could run into the week.

"Here is my worry," Sanders said. "What polls show, and what studies have shown is that, for whatever reason, Democrats are more likely to use mail-in ballots, Republicans are more likely to walk into polling booths on Election Day. It is likely that the first votes that will be counted will be those people who came in on Election Day, which will be Republican. 

"And here is the fear — and I hope everybody hears it," continued Sanders. "It could well be that at 10 o'clock on election night, Trump is winning in Michigan, he's winning in Pennsylvania, he's winning in Wisconsin, and he gets on the television and he says, 'Thank you, Americans, for re-electing me. It's all over. Have a good day.' But then, the next day, and the day following, all of those mail-in ballots start getting counted, and it turns out that Biden was won those states, at which point Trump says, 'See? I told you the whole thing was fraudulent. I told you those mail-in ballots were crooked. And we're not going to leave office.' That is a worry that I and a lot of people have... people should be aware of that possibility."

It was in the earlier hours of Wednesday, not 10 o'clock on election night. But despite incomplete results, citing (among others) those Midwestern states where he was ahead in the still-incomplete counts, Trump did falsely claim victory over Biden —both in a televised address to supporters at the White House and on Twitter and Facebook, in a clear declaration of intent to manipulate the electoral process. 


"Frankly, we did win this election," Trump said, even though millions of votes, including key results from Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia, have not been fully counted, and no major news outlet had declared a winner. "We’ll be going to the U.S. Supreme Court," he added. "We want all voting to stop." It wasn't a total surprise that Trump declared this premature, false victory, but Sanders even got the states right.


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  1. The whole thing is going EXACTLY how Trump wanted it to go. The whole thing seems pre-meditated

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  2. Yeah old Bernie said instead of having to ask for a mail in vote will just send millions upon millions out everywhere and anybody could vote the way they want as often as they want. Of course they have to be Democrat

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  3. Let’s stay unbiased for a minute here.
    Looks like Biden will win Nevada and Wisconsin which will give him 16 electoral votes for a total of 254
    Trump seems to be winning in Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania which will give him 67 electoral votes for a total of 280
    Am I wrong?

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    1. Unbiased here. I think you need to re-read the article or watch the video.

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    2. Its to close in mich and people who did Mail in vote there more likely vote Biden same with Ga, now i will say nc and Pennsylvania going stay red, just the pure arrogance agent of orange is sicking with notion well I won when places are still counting mail in votes which could flip couple of his states

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    3. On the BBC News here, they're still predicting a Biden win, albeit a slim one.

      Interestingly they're also concentrating on what they insinuate as a state of paralysis with a Biden presidency but a Republican Senate. This they predict is the worst case scenario as nothing will be done and the USA will continue to be polarised.

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    4. Michigan is going to flip for Biden. The counting of mail-in ballots continues and those skew heavily toward Biden. This is not over by a longshot.

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  4. Bernie predicted chaos more like planned it.

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    1. that is the dumbest thing posted today

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    2. Sure you didn't mean Soros as he's the bogeyman... Either that or Bernie has greater mind control than David Blaine!

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    3. does it hurt to be that thick?

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  5. Bernie would have won

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    1. Yeah right and they made Biden out to be a socialist ;D

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    2. He would have had my vote. At the end of his run you can sense his frustration on all the scandals he was up against.

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    3. Really?? You are delusional!

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    4. He certainly would’ve

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    5. I iust wonder who bernie put has a running mate

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    6. except he didnt

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    7. I love Bernie. But he wouldn’t have won.

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  6. I knew this would happen.

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  7. He studied Communism infiltration at a young age. Yes, he was young, once.

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  8. What’s more crazy is that out of population of how many these are the best 2 candidates.... ;D

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    1. The people at the top doesn't want anyone too smart that thinks outside the box like Bernie. Too much power.

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    2. from a European perspective it is totally absurd how a guy that says just normal common sense things like Bernie Sanders can be so super controversial and "radical" in the US O.O

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    3. You have to remember there are a lot of uneducated people here that doesn't think for themselves. They go by what they are most familiar with. But I guess that is the same in any country.

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    4. Yes it is. Unfortunately stupid are more than people with at least common sense. America is a let down for the whole if the world! What a shame!

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