It is Election Day and if you thought that Donald Trump would be any less of a dick today than any other day—you would be wrong.
Daniel Dale, Washington correspondent from Toronto Star:
This is all based on the Republican Party’s accusations that the early voting polls in Clark County were kept open too late in Las Vegas. This is a bummer for Trump and other Republicans because it meant that a lot of people that aren’t old and white and angry and racist got a chance to vote.
On Friday, Clark County logged record-setting turnout. Democrats notched a six percentage point turnout lead statewide in two weeks of early voting. Nevada is critical to Trump’s chances of assembling an Electoral College majority.
Kellyanne Conway and Nevada GOP Chairman Michael McDonald planted the seeds of doubt a couple of days ago.
“Last night in Clark County they kept a poll open till 10 o’clock at night so a certain group could vote,” McDonald said at a Trump rally in Reno. “The polls are supposed to close at 7 p.m. This was kept open till 10 p.m. Yeah, you feel free right now? You think this is a free and easy election?”
McDonald appeared to be referring to an early voting site at Cardenas supermarket in the heavily Hispanic east Las Vegas neighborhood, which processed voters for about two hours after its posted closing time. Pictures of voter crowds there got attention on social media.
Clark County officials explained that the way voting works is that you have a line of people who are waiting to vote and then you let all of those people vote. The way you know you are done is that there is no more line. The Republican Party isn’t really into the concept of a democracy of the people, for the people and by the people.