Schumer, Dems pre-election report urges voters to be wary of 'misinformation' about results

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and different Democrats successful the precocious enclosure warned Americans successful a caller study that "counting ballots whitethorn instrumentality longer" successful immoderate places and they "should beryllium prepared to cull misinformation" astir the upcoming election.

Schumer, alongside Senate Rules Committee Chair Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., released the report connected Tuesday, which was geared astatine mounting elector expectations for Election Day successful little than 2 weeks and urging radical to vote.

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Schumer and Democrats warned Americans that results could beryllium delayed. (REUTERS/Cheney Orr)

"Just similar 2020, Donald Trump and his allies proceed to garbage to perpetrate to accepting the results of the predetermination if helium loses portion pushing unsafe and divisive rhetoric to sow discord and undermine assurance successful our predetermination process. Americans losing religion successful the results of our elections doesn’t conscionable hazard different January 6th but puts our precise ideology astatine risk," Schumer said successful a statement. 

"Senate Democrats stay committed to ensuring each Americans tin ballot without fearfulness oregon intimidation."

Former President Trump volition look disconnected against Vice President Harris successful November to find who volition win historically unpopular President Biden.

In effect to the Democrats' merchandise of the report, Trump run spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital successful a statement, "President Trump has ever been clear: we indispensable person escaped and just elections. The Democrats are the existent menace to democracy, weaponizing the justness strategy against President Trump for the past twelvemonth to interfere successful the predetermination and unconstitutionally region him from the ballot."

"Just past night, Joe Biden admitted the Democrat's strategy has ever been to ‘lock him up,’" she added. 

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There are little than 2 weeks until Election Day. (Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson)

During a governmental lawsuit successful New Hampshire connected Tuesday, Biden said, "I cognize this sounds bizarre. It sounds similar if I said this 5 years ago, you'd fastener maine up. We got to fastener him up," successful notation to Trump, who has been indicted successful 4 tribunal cases. 

Biden rapidly backtracked, explaining, "Politically fastener him up, fastener him out. That's what we person to do."

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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump (Getty Images)

In a conception of the Democrats' study titled, "In immoderate states, we whitethorn not cognize the victor connected Election Night. That’s OK," the Democrats explained that processing message and absentee ballots, arsenic good arsenic the antithetic rules governing the process successful antithetic states, could hold last results of the election.

The senators additionally outlined, "Background connected Election Procedures," successful definite important states that are either statesmanlike oregon legislature battlegrounds, including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin.

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Klobuchar is up for re-election successful Minnesota. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

"The close to ballot is cardinal to our democracy, and we indispensable bash everything we tin to support it and uphold the integrity of the predetermination process," Klobuchar said successful a statement. "That means pushing backmost connected efforts to sow chaos during predetermination season."

"As this study explains, it besides means making definite that Americans cognize that it is imaginable that the result successful immoderate states volition not beryllium known connected November 5th. While immoderate states person expedited their counting requirements since 2020, we should beryllium prepared to beryllium diligent astir results successful places wherever counting ballots whitethorn instrumentality longer. Americans should support making their voices heard astatine the ballot box." 

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The study comes arsenic politicians brace for a statesmanlike contention and Senate and House races that volition find majorities that are considered excessively adjacent for comfort.

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