The Guardian: 5 factors that saved US democracy from Trump’s re-election

The Guardian published a report by its US correspondent Tom McCarthy titled “5 factors that saved American democracy from Trump’s re-election”.

McCarthy says that “it is not yet clear if American democracy has escaped the 2020 presidential elections without harm,” noting that if President Donald Trump’s approach to obstructing legitimate elections became a regular matter in the behavior and political practice of the Republican Party in the upcoming elections and Headed by “refusing to admit defeat and falsely claiming fraud in the vote count and filing lawsuits to challenge the result, this will mean that American democracy has already suffered a fatal wound”.

McCarthy continues, “Trump has not succeeded in his historic attempt to steal the 2020 elections, in what analysts consider the most dangerous attack since the Civil War on American democracy. 

And the two states on which Trump pinned his last hopes, Pennsylvania and Michigan, have announced the documented results with Joe Biden’s victory.

McCarthy begins by enumerating the factors that helped American democracy survive in the face of Trump:

No central body supervises elections organized by more than fifty parties in the various states, and the voters vote locally in front of the districts that count and count the votes.

Voters in previous elections were accustomed to lax in coming down and voting, and that was a usual weakness in American democracy, but not in the 2020 elections.

Never has a presidential candidate got more than 70 million votes.

Obama got 69.5 million votes in 2008.

This year, Trump received nearly 74 million votes, while Biden received nearly 80 million votes.

Despite Trump’s claims, the elections did not witness widespread fraud or corruption during the counting processes, due to the large activity of observers and human rights activists.

The Trump campaign used many senior lawyers to file several lawsuits against the results, and the courts adjudicated them quickly, without the team winning any case except for an ineffective sub-case out of 43 cases in six states.

The American Media Foundation is one of the least loved American institutions among the citizens, but the strong and independent media that enjoys full protection under Article 1 of the Constitution remains a major and important pillar of democracy in the United States.