Kamala Harris’ campaign warned on Monday that the final results of the US presidential election will not be known for “several days” and warned Donald Trump’s camp against any attempt to “sow doubt and chaos” over the integrity of the election.
Voting takes place Tuesday across the United States, but more than 75 million Americans have voted by mail and in early polling stations, including in the seven swing states that will decide whether the Democratic vice president or the Republican former president will sit in the Oval Office on January 20.
New ballots will continue to be counted for several days after the election. That’s obviously not a sign of fraud, that’s just the way it works,” Harris-Walz campaign chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon said on a conference call.
We believe this race is going to be incredibly close, which means we may not know the results of this election for several days,” the official warned.
For each of the seven “swing states” (Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin), Ms. O’Malley Dillon estimated that the final results will run from “late night,” between Tuesday and Wednesday, until November 8 or 9 for Nevada and Pennsylvania, the most crucial northeastern state in the presidential race.
The Republican candidate’s camp has continued to claim that Democrats are already engaging in “fraud” and “cheating” in the electoral process in key states, while the Democrat’s camp fears that Mr Trump will immediately contest a possible victory by Ms Harris and proclaim his own.
We cannot and will not allow Trump to denigrate the election or our institutions with his repeated attempts to sow chaos and doubt,” Harris campaign chief adviser Dana Remus also warned.
Despite all the noise Republicans are making about undermining the election and alleging fraud, it is actually now easier and safer than ever to vote in almost every key state since the election reforms we passed after 2020,” she added, while Mr. Trump has never conceded his defeat in November 2020 and is facing criminal charges for trying to overturn the results four years ago.
