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Some statements by Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders have been widely shared on social networks this Wednesday morning after the appearance of Donald Trump, in which the president has declared himself the winner of the elections before the end of the vote count in several key states.

Throughout an interview on the program

'The Tonight Show'

of the American network NBC, broadcast on October 23, the senator explains why he supported Joe Biden after withdrawing from the race for the Democratic nomination, defends that Texas can change the future of American politics and mentions the reasons why the vote count may take longer than normal in this election.

Asked by the presenter,

Jimmy Fallon

, about when the results could be known, Sanders assured that it is a problem that worried him and defended that "every vote should be counted", before

advancing a possible scenario for the presidential elections

that, at least for the moment, it is being fulfilled.

The senator suspected of a scenario with

"states like Pennsylvania, Michigan or Wisconsin"

- three of the states that currently hold the presidency in their hands - that "can receive massive amounts of votes by mail" and that, for various reasons, "They will not be able to begin processing those votes until November 3 or until the closing of schools."

Sanders mentions that Democrats tend to vote by mail, while Republicans prefer to approach to vote in person, which would mean that

in some states the first votes to be reported are overwhelmingly Republicans

.

"This is my fear," said the senator, "it may happen that at ten o'clock on election night, Trump is winning in Michigan, in Pennsylvania, in Wisconsin ... and he comes out on television and says

' Thank you, Americans, for re-electing me. This is over, have a good day

. "But then the next few days, all those mail-in ballots start to count and you see that Biden has won in those states. And at that point, Trump would say

' See? I told you that the whole process was fraudulent, I told you that the postal ballots were corrupted. And we are not going to leave office

.

'

This is something that worries me and many others. "

The scenario that Sanders warned about is similar to the one that took place in the country when Trump appeared from the White House.

The president was

leading the count at that time in the three states

mentioned by the Democratic senator and in North Carolina, another of the key places.

In his speech,

Trump has self-proclaimed his victory despite the fact that no media granted him the 270 delegates necessary

for it and has defended that continuing to count the votes from that moment on was "a great fraud for our country."

Unlike in other places like Florida or Vermont, which counted mail-in ballots before November 3,

in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin the counting did not begin until election night and it is not known for sure when it will end

.

Michigan believes its recount will last until Friday and Wisconsin, where Biden had a slight lead over Trump with 89% of the votes counted, does not expect to have a final result until mid-Wednesday.

In the case of Pennsylvania, which continues to admit votes by mail until Friday, as long as they were sent before Election Day,

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf referred to "more than a million votes without counting" and criticized the "partisan attack. to our elections, our votes, and to democracy "

that Trump's statements implied.

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