Trump should "immediately" recognize Biden's victory in the US presidential election, 46% of registered voters say.

This is evidenced by the data of a poll conducted by the Politico newspaper and the Morning Consult company.

This view is shared by 72% of registered Democratic voters, 43% of independent respondents and 17% of Republican voters.

32% of registered voters believe that Trump should admit defeat in the elections "in the end, if he cannot substantiate" his claims of massive fraud.

This position is shared by 21% of Democrats surveyed, 34% of independent respondents and 45% of Republicans.

At the same time, 12% of respondents believe that Donald Trump should not admit defeat and give in to Biden, "no matter what."

This was supported by 27% of Republicans, 8% of independent voters and just 3% of registered Democrats.

The US presidential election was held on November 3.

However, due to the large number of voters who voted early and by mail, the counting of votes was delayed for several days.

By November 7, the American media announced the winner of Democrat Joe Biden, who received the required 270 electoral college votes.

Donald Trump said that the elections are not officially over, during the voting many falsifications and violations were recorded, and its results will be challenged in court.

Judicial battles

Trump continues to challenge the election results in various courts.

However, so far he and his supporters have not made significant progress that could affect the voting results.

Thus, appeals to courts in the states of Georgia, Michigan and Nevada were rejected.

At the same time, new claims are filed and are pending from both citizens and the Republican Party. 

One of the main battlegrounds for the elections was the state of Pennsylvania, where the president's team filed several lawsuits in different courts at once. 

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit by Trump's headquarters, which argued that observers at polling stations in Philadelphia were limited in their ability to follow the counting procedure, according to NBC News.

GOP observers claimed they were kept behind a fence at such a distance from the polling station that they could not make out the information on the envelopes or ballots to judge whether the procedure was fair.

By a majority decision, the Trump campaign was dismissed.

According to the verdict, Pennsylvania law requires observers to enter the counting room, but does not set the distance to counting tables.

NBC News notes that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling on this lawsuit could harm the chances of Trump's campaign in another instance - federal court, where a lawsuit was filed to invalidate mailed ballots that were corrected by voters after they were found. errors while filling.

Earlier, Trump's lawyers corrected the claim and removed from it the claim that more than 682,000 ballots delivered to polling stations were illegally processed without the participation of Republican observers.

In the 2020 election, Pennsylvania was among the key states in which a popular vote would guarantee a candidate the necessary electoral college votes.

After counting 99% of the votes, Biden won the state with 50% of the vote, while Donald Trump gained 48%.

Cleaning rows

Despite the lack of meaningful success in the courts, Donald Trump continues to claim that he won the election, and Biden was declared president by a biased media based on falsified results.

At the same time, the head of the White House reacts extremely negatively to the statements of officials that the voting took place without violations and was safe.

On November 12, this statement was made by the Agency for Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection of the US Department of Homeland Security, which called the elections "the most secure in history."

  • Voting in Philadelphia

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“The November 3 election was the safest in American history.

Right now, electoral bodies across the country are studying and re-checking the entire electoral procedure before finally summing up the results, ”the agency said in a press release.

In response, on November 18, Donald Trump announced that the head of the agency, Chris Krebs, had been dismissed from his post, while directly linking his resignation to the latter's approval of the election.

“The recent statement by Chris Krebs about the security of the elections in 2020 was extremely inaccurate, as there were massive violations and falsifications: counting the votes of those who are no longer alive;

non-admission of observers to polling stations;

"Malfunctions" in the voting machines, which translated Biden the votes cast for Trump;

registration of votes cast late, as well as a host of other cases.

In this regard, the following decision immediately enters into force: Chris Krebs is dismissed from the post of Director of the Agency for Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection, "Trump wrote on Twitter.

The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud - including dead people voting, Poll Watchers not allowed into polling locations, “glitches” in the voting machines which changed .. ...

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2020

American media outlets note that Krebs, on his Twitter, actively criticized allegations of electoral violations and various conspiracy theories about how the votes for Trump were stolen in favor of Biden.

Presidential administration sources told CNN that Krebs, who had run the agency since its inception in 2018, was "actively seeking to get fired."

Fighting legitimacy

Opinion polls, which suggest that Trump supposedly must immediately admit defeat, are designed to demoralize his supporters and the Republican Party, said Vladimir Vasiliev, chief researcher at the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

“The publication Politico, which regularly conducts anti-Trump propaganda, is trying to break Trump so that he can begin the process of transferring power to Biden.

Today, opinion polls in the United States, which are conducted by democratic media, are nothing more than a powerful psychological campaign directed against Trump and his supporters, "the political scientist said in a conversation with RT.

  • Joe Biden

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The expert stressed that the Republicans still have the opportunity to influence the outcome of the elections, challenging them in courts of various instances.

“Trump intends to fight to the end, he has time to reverse the current situation.

It cannot be ruled out that the electoral college will rebel and approve a favorable result for Trump, or the Supreme Court will intervene in the situation, ”Vasiliev emphasized.

In addition, if Biden is approved by the president, a significant part of the country's population will not consider him the legitimately elected head of state, the expert added.

“If Trump does not recognize the election results, does not show up for the inauguration, then Biden will become an illegitimate president in the eyes of society.

Today, Trump is planting a bomb under Biden, thanks to which, in the conditions of incomplete legitimacy of the leader, any of his failures will develop into a serious internal political crisis around the democratic administration and a possible impeachment, ”Vladimir Vasiliev stressed.

In turn, American political analyst Dmitry Drobnitsky believes that Trump is unlikely to win back the election through the courts, but he will try to undermine the credibility of the elections and the Democratic Party as much as possible.

“Today, the minimum task facing Trump is to sow doubts about the electoral system, to show that the past elections were dirty and the voting results were rigged.

His chances of staying in the White House are dwindling by the day as the establishment has committed all its energies to finalizing the transfer of power to the Democratic administration.

Trump is unlikely to win back the presidency, but he will try to show that they played dishonestly against him, ”the political scientist noted.

This will only aggravate the instability of the political situation in the United States, the expert said.

“Since 2016, there has been a split in Congress, tough rejection in relations between the Democratic and Republican parties.

The worst thing is that the hatred of politicians today is also directed at the voters of the opposite camp.

Throughout Trump's rule, the current situation in society has been called the cold civil war, which today is close to developing into a hot phase.

Whoever occupies the White House in 2021, the civil conflict in the United States is not over, it is just beginning to gain momentum, ”concluded Dmitry Drobnitsky.