• Ignore the MSM. RightWing Website Predicts Overwhelming Trump Landslide

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    2020 election Biden landslide ‘more likely’ than Trump win: Nicholas
    Kristof
    Max Zahn with Andy Serwer
    Wed., October 21, 2020, 10:34 a.m. EDT·4 mins read

    Less than two weeks before Election Day, President Donald Trump faces on average a double-digit deficit in the polls that has pushed Republicans to distance themselves and Democrats to take positions on nominee Joe Biden’s potential Cabinet.

    But the outcome remains in doubt, says New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. In a new interview, Kristof told Yahoo Finance that Trump still
    has “a path” to victory but that it’s more likely Biden will win in a
    landslide than Trump will win at all.

    “There is a possibility that things will come together [for Trump],” said Kristoff, who has written for the Times in various capacities since 1984.

    “I think it's unlikely. I think that it's more likely that Joe Biden will
    win in a landslide, than that Trump will win at all,” says Kristof, a
    liberal who supported former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s bid
    against Trump in 2016.

    Kristof co-created a new documentary entitled “Tightrope: Americans
    Reaching for Hope,” based on a book co-authored with his wife and former
    Times reporter Sheryl WuDunn that chronicles how rising inequality has
    impacted his hometown of Yamhill, Oregon.
    A small chance but the possibility of an ‘October surprise’

    As of Wednesday, a presidential forecast calculated by FiveThirtyEight
    gave Trump a 12% chance of winning the election, in keeping with a polling average compiled by the news organization that showed Trump trailing Biden
    by 10.2 percentage points. On October 21, 2016 — the same date four years
    ago — the FiveThirtyEight forecast gave Trump a slightly higher but still chance of winning his race against Clinton: 13.5%.

    Some observers say the results of the election remain up in the air,
    citing polls in October 2016 that gave Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton
    a lead as high as 14 percentage points. Others point to the potential for
    an “October surprise,” a news development that could significantly
    influence voters. Many note that 2016 election’s surprise came in the form
    of an announcement made by then-FBI Director James Comey about an
    investigation into Clinton’s email server just 10 days before the
    election.

    There could be other surprises in 2020. For instance, Trump has sought
    approval for a coronavirus vaccine before Election Day, which might significantly improve perception of his handling of the outbreak. A major
    shift in the race may also occur if a member of the Democratic ticket
    contracts COVID, which FiveThirtyEight Editor-in-Chief Nate Silver raised
    in an interview last week with WNYC’s “On the Media.”
    Journalist Nicholas Kristof speaks during the Goalkeepers Conference, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
    Journalist Nicholas Kristof speaks during the Goalkeepers Conference, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

    Kristof spoke to Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer in an episode
    of “Influencers with Andy Serwer,” a weekly interview series with leaders
    in business, politics, and entertainment.

    Even if the electoral vote tally comes down in favor of a given candidate, Kristof warned of a “nightmare” scenario in which state leaders defy the results, sending delegates to the electoral college who support a
    preferred candidate rather than the one widely believed to have won the
    states’ popular vote.

    Over the spring and summer of this year, Democrats and Republicans in each state nominated their electors, who are expected to cast their vote for
    the party nominee if they win the state’s popular vote. On Dec. 14,
    electors will meet in each state and send their formal vote to Congress.

    But disputed election results in selected states could result in the
    leaders of those states picking electors from a party whose candidate is
    widely believed to have lost the state’s popular vote, Kristof said.

    “Some states could send electors to the Electoral College who it is widely
    felt do not represent what happened in that state’s election,” Kristof
    says. “For purely partisan reasons.”

    CNN host and columnist Fareed Zakaria echoed Kristof’s concerns in the Washington Post in September.

    A report in the Atlantic in September found the Trump campaign has
    discussed such a scenario, citing sources in the Republican party at the
    state and national level. Under the reported contingency plan, the Trump campaign would put pressure on swing states with Republican-controlled legislatures to call the election for Trump and urge loyal electors to
    cast their formal vote him.

    “We don't really have a clear playbook to determine how to address that,” Kristof says. “I hope that it is a decisive election.”

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