Bullets or votes in five crucial states

Ending an election day in the world's leading power without knowing the result is going to end up being a habit. Although for different reasons, this has already happened in 2016 and 2000 and the analogy with respect to the stormy election of George W. Bush is premonitory this time. The president has once again threatened to denounce the results if they are not favourable to him in the states where re-election is at stake: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia and North Carolina. He has the joker of the new Judge Barrett already installed in the Palace of Justice, so he is prepared to go all the way in this tense and tense contest. 

While waiting to see who will be president, there are things that can already be concluded. Biden has not made Americans fall in love like Obama did. He has improved Hillary, but he has not given her the authority to win in the night of the car. That a Democratic candidate does not connect clearly with the voters of the Pittsburgh belt, the city of steel, or with the workers of the industries in Grand Rapids, Lansing or Detroit, defines his meagre result. After Clinton's failure, the party has not been able to create a project with sufficient power of conviction, not even by integrating the most radical Kamala and Sanders. 

The Republican, on the other hand, has shown a great capacity of resistance to the "anti-Trump front" that all the Democratic factions have formed around him. And he has defeated the polls that were not even close to such an explosive end in a handful of states. Demoscopy is, for now, the first major reform that the country needs in order not to mislead the citizenry for months on end as it has done. But we were with Trump, the man who knows how to mobilise his people against viruses and tides. Each of his recent rallies in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania was a demonstration of faith by his electorate; in the first two he has won, in the third he has a large advantage over his opponent that will only be played if the mail and early voting vote is thousands of ballots higher than the actual one. His victory in Florida shows that not only does Little Havana's Calle Ocho in Miami support the president in his fetish state, but there are many hundreds of thousands of southerners whose patriotic vein and pride in belonging to a country that looks after their jobs has been inflamed. 

The worst thing about Donald Trump is that he has gone out to speak late at night on the East Coast, as the gangsters in that William Keighley film did, promising bullets or votes: either he wins, or rights to the Supreme Court, in one of the most regrettable expressions of the erosion of democratic institutions that are remembered not only in the United States. The governors of the aforementioned states have responded to the Republican candidate by advocating a clean up of the recount, although they should have ensured that it continued until the last vote was counted rather than stopping him to go to sleep. But the call for their ranks to protest in the streets is an invitation to unrest in a country that has depleted stocks of firearms ammunition in the last week. Bullets or votes, like Edward G. Robinson, in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina.