#us-election

The thing that made me stop and think about it is the faxt that your election system only works because there are only two options. The democrats o the Republicans. There is my question and I did ask it in class, but apparently my professor didn’t understand and I didn’t want to be a bother.

What would happen if a third party would be successful in an election?

Like you need 270 votes to get the majority. But that can only happen if there are two parties.  So what would happen if, say 190 votes go blue, 180 go red and the remanning 168 vote go to the third party. Therefore there is no 270 vote majority.

Would there be no president? Would there be a need for another vote? Is the winner the party with the most votes? 

By Ian Dunt

What we're seeing in America today is not just a disaster for the left, or moderates, or liberals, or whoever would naturally oppose this Republican administration. It is a disaster for those who believe in democracy.

Donald Trump is trying to rig the election. He emerged this morning, in a carefully coordinated media statement surrounded by cheering supporters, and insisted he had already won, even though votes are still being counted. He then demanded that voting cease where he thought he could lose. "We want all voting to stop," he said. It was a clear and explicit attempt to destroy people's democractic rights.

This would be alarming enough on its own. But it did not just happen today. It was clear from the very beginning that this was a tactic Trump would pursue. He worked to discredit mail-in votes during a pandemic on a baseless accusation of fraud. The reason early ballots haven't been counted in certain key states was because the Republicans changed the law to ban it. Trump then emerged this morning to insist they were not counted.

Call this what it is: an orchestrated attempt to subvert American democracy.

Trump's effort to undermine this election was explicit. It was obvious. Over and over again he refused to confirm that he would allow a peaceful transfer of power. He has been planning this right out there in public. And now it is happening.

There will always be would-be tyrants. Democracy is a robust obstacle to their emergence, but it cannot eradicate the threat. What is troubling here is not so much Trump's attempt to destroy American democracy, which we have priced in for some time. It's the fact that he was obviously going to do this and millions of people voted for him anyway. And that is the terrifying thing. That is the thing that sends a shiver through the spine.

Democracy cannot survive without people who believe in it. It cannot prevail if those who live under it support those who try to destroy it. It cannot endure if voters are so misguided, so lacking in trust in the media and the electoral system, that they believe the president's lies.

The rot is not just in the democratic process, but in its purpose. Voting is not just an expression of consent in government. It is also a protective shield. It is supposed to ensure that no leader can inflict damage on the public.

People don't vote for famine. That makes democracy qualitatively different from dictatorships, like Stalin's Russia, where man-made famines could be imposed on people because they had no opportunity to overthrow the government.

Except this time, it's different. People are voting for famine. Trump's track record on coronavirus is a full-scale intellectual, moral and operational failure. It is an act of criminal neglect, with a death toll of nearly a quarter of a million people. And this was not an act of God. It was the result of a man who suggested people inject themselves with bleach, who wouldn't support masks, who attacked scientific advisers, who encouraged the view that it was some sort of made-up Democratic party hoax, who encouraged baseless conspiracy theories.

Democracy is supposed to protect the public from precisely this outcome. This is exactly the kind of situation it provides safeguards for, by formalising the public's ability to replace governments which undermine their rights and put them in harm's way. But instead, millions have turned out to support the attack.

A US judge has dismissed adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump and ordered her to pay his lawyer’s fees, saying a tweet the President had written referring to her was protected by free speech laws.

Ms Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, said they would appeal against the decision.

“There is something really rich in Trump relying on the First Amendment to justify defaming a woman,” Mr Avenatti said.

Ms Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has said she had a sexual encounter with Mr Trump in 2006.

She said that in 2011, a man approached her in a Las Vegas parking lot and threatened her after she had agreed to talk about her experience with Mr Trump in an interview.

Ms Daniels then released a sketch of the man.

Mr Trump responded by dismissing her claims in a tweet, saying: “A sketch years later about a non-existent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!”

He retweeted a side-by-side photo comparing the sketch with a photo of Ms Daniels’ husband, who has since filed for divorce.

Ms Daniels, who has also sued over a $130,000 hush money agreement over the alleged encounter, sued Mr Trump over the tweet, claiming it made her appear to be a liar.

Lawyers for Mr Trump have sought to dismiss both lawsuits.

In his ruling, Judge S James Otero said Mr Trump’s tweet was protected by freedom of speech.

“The Court agrees with Mr Trump’s argument because the tweet in question constitutes ‘rhetorical hyperbole’ normally associated with politics and public discourse in the United States,” Judge Otero wrote.

“The First Amendment protects this type of rhetorical statement.”

Charles Harder, Mr Trump’s lawyer, hailed the ruling as a “total victory”.

“No amount of spin or commentary by Stormy Daniels or her lawyer, Mr Avenatti, can truthfully characterise today’s ruling in any way other than total victory for President Trump and total defeat for Stormy Daniels,” Mr Harder said in a statement.

GRAPHIC VIDEO: Trump voter kicked viciously in head by Clinton-voting gang for US election

DONALD Trump beating Hillary Clinton to win the US presidential election has divided people the world over.

There have been protests and arrests across America due to the result.

But things have also taken a violent turn for the worse.

In a horrifying clip a man is seen being pulled from his car in the middle of a busy road to be beaten by a gang.

The car sits straddling a dangerous intersection…

GRAPHIC VIDEO: Trump voter kicked viciously in head by Clinton-voting gang for US election

DONALD Trump beating Hillary Clinton to win the US presidential election has divided people the world over. There have been protests and arrests across America due to the result. But things have also taken a violent turn for the worse. In a horrifying clip a man is seen being pulled from his car in the middle of a busy road to be beaten by a gang. The car sits straddling a dangerous intersection…