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 nan precocious enclosure warned Americans successful a caller study that "counting ballots whitethorn return longer" successful immoderate places and they "should beryllium prepared to cull misinformation" astir nan 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 nan report connected Tuesday, which was geared astatine mounting elector expectations for Election Day successful little than 2 weeks and urging group to vote.

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

"Just for illustration 2020, Donald Trump and his friends proceed to garbage to perpetrate to accepting nan results of nan predetermination if he loses while pushing vulnerable and divisive rhetoric to sow discord and undermine assurance successful our predetermination process. Americans losing religion successful nan results of our elections doesn’t conscionable consequence different January 6th but puts our very populist astatine risk," Schumer said successful a statement. 

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

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

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

"Just past night, Joe Biden admitted nan 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 arena successful New Hampshire connected Tuesday, Biden said, "I cognize this sounds bizarre. It sounds for illustration if I said this 5 years ago, you'd fastener maine up. We sewage to fastener him up," successful reference to Trump, who has been indicted successful 4 tribunal cases. 

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

The senators additionally outlined, "Background connected Election Procedures," successful definite important states that are either statesmanlike aliases 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 correct to ballot is basal to our democracy, and we must do everything we tin to protect it and uphold nan integrity of nan predetermination process," Klobuchar said successful a statement. "That intends pushing backmost connected efforts to sow chaos during predetermination season."

"As this study explains, it besides intends making judge that Americans cognize that it is imaginable that nan result successful immoderate states will 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 return longer. Americans should support making their voices heard astatine nan ballot box." 

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

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