With roughly one week until Election Day, polls indicate an exceptionally tight race, with close calls in many battleground states. Georgia, in particular, is again expected to play a pivotal role. Four years ago, President Joe Biden barely won the state, flipping it from former President Trump’s 2016 victory. In response, Trump attempted to pressure Georgia’s Republican election officials to overturn the results that they had deemed fair.
In 2024, Georgia voters are showing up in large numbers for early voting. As of Saturday, Oct. 26, the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office reported that 2,791,185 votes have already been cast through absentee and in-person early voting.
Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor David Pakman breaks down the razor-thin races in key battleground states, with a particular focus on Georgia and Pennsylvania.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
But the point here is we should be prepared that Nov. 5, at night, unless it’s a blowout, we’re not going to know the winner. Nov. 6, in the morning, we still may not know the winner, and if we assume or imagine [that] Georgia flips to Trump, Arizona flips to Trump, it all then comes down to Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania, notoriously in 2020, took a while to finish counting, not because anything was wrong, but because they have rules — 50 states with 50 sets of rules — Pennsylvania did stop counting on election night [and] resumed counting the next day. This allowed MAGA and Trump to usher in all sorts of conspiracy theories and allegations of subterfuge and explanations as to what’s going on.
The best thing that the Left can do is assume that it will come down to just a couple of states, because it probably will. Assume that we won’t get all of the numbers on Nov. 5, and maybe not even on Nov. 6.
Assume that Republicans are going to do everything possible to generate as much chaos as they can, and that Trump will claim victory and be prepared for every contingency you can think of. Is it at courts? Is it at county elections offices? What exactly is it going to be? Where do you need lawyers? What sort of preparation is necessary? Because it’s almost certainly going to be the way that it goes down. And if it does, if it does, we don’t want them to have had a trial run in 2020 that maybe would succeed in 2024.
If Harris loses, I’ve said this before and I’ve said it again — if Harris loses, I don’t want her to force her way into the presidency. If she loses, she should not be president, but it is not clear that the MAGA Right has the same perspective when it comes to Trump.