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A supporter of President Donald Trump holds a sign stating "STOP THE STEAL" and a pin stating "Poll Watcher" after Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden overtook President Donald Trump in the Pennsylvania general election vote count. [Reuters]
When the country woke up to President Donald Trump relishing in his lawyers’ request for “meaningful access” to vote counting on Thursday, it was to seal what was already turning out a comical reflection of third world countries’ tortured experience with elections.
For once, American voters were coming to terms with the late Edward Carey Francis’s description of politicians – black, brown or white – as “unmitigated scoundrels”.
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