# Election Day \[Week\]\[Month\[s\]\] \[Year\] 2020 follow-along thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 3, 2020, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618 "2020-11-03T05:36:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6568 "2020-11-20T16:01:38Z")

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> [@Dinsdale](#):
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> I don’t read a ton of press, but what little I do read (basically Chicago Trib) is getting increasingly critical of Trump’s efforts. Remember way back when the media hesitated even to call him on his flat-out lies? Man, you read any of the stories and they just flatly dismiss his contentions calling them “lacking any basis in fact” and so on. Meanwhile pointing out that he has nothing on his calendar, etc, and declaring efforts as threatening democracy.
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> Yeah, most people dwell in their own echo chambers, but it IS nice to see such plain speaking.

Agreed.

> [@The American Coup: 11.9.2020 -](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/575):
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> The Washington Post is not sugarcoating this crisis. Note that this is not an opinion piece. [Trump uses power of presidency to try to overturn the election and stay in office](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-uses-power-of-presidency-to-try-to-overturn-the-election-and-stay-in-office/2020/11/19/bc89caa6-2a9f-11eb-8fa2-06e7cbb145c0_story.html)

> [@The American Coup: 11.9.2020 -](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/576):
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> From the linked article:

From the linked article:

> [@](#):
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> These are the words and actions of an attempted coup, according to historians and other experts.
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> “We have never seen anything like this before,” historian and author Michael Beschloss said. “This is a president abusing his very great powers to try to stay in office, even though it is obvious to everyone that he has been defeated in the polls. That is a prospect that terrified most of the founders.”
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> Beschloss added, “I don’t want to be alarmist, but I do think it’s our job as citizens to keep watch on every one of these things with an eye to that ultimate dread of the founders, which is that a president rejected by the voters would use his powers to try to stay in office anyway.”

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