For Trump to declare shorty after polls closed in all states that all ballot counting should stop is not only ridiculous but a danger to our democracy. When he made that statement there were still millions of votes waiting to be counted. I really don’t see how he thought that an early claim of victory would go unchallenged. It seems that his clear intent was to subvert the election and thus undermine the democratic process of free and fair elections in this country. Trump then maintained a steady drum beat of messaging which was meant to destroy public confidence in the election itself. The culmination of his effort was the press conference he gave last evening which, by most accounts, was the most dishonest speech of his presidency. His performance was a total melt down of someone who knows that victory is slipping away from him. We know that he has repeatedly attacked democratic institutions but never as blatantly as in the past three days. It all strikes me as actions of a two bit wanna be dictator. The voters of our country will and must be heard in elections since that is the bed rock of a functioning democracy. GOP leaders must condemn Trump’s irrational behavior.

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