{"id":11057,"date":"2020-11-04T23:55:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T07:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=11057"},"modified":"2020-11-05T08:43:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T16:43:03","slug":"post7-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=11057","title":{"rendered":"“How the World Is Covering Trump\u2019s Premature Victory Lap”, Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

By<\/span>\u00a0Chloe\u00a0<\/a>Hadvas,<\/span>\u00a0Audrey\u00a0<\/a>Wilson,<\/span>\u00a0Allison\u00a0Meakem,\u00a0

The election has been called an \u201cattack on the nerves\u201d\u2014and Trump\u2019s statements have been dubbed an \u201cattempted coup.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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This article is part of Election 2020: America Votes<\/a><\/b>, FP\u2019s round-the-clock coverage of the U.S. election results as they come in, with short dispatches from correspondents and analysts around the world. The America Votes<\/a><\/b> page is free for all readers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A staff member stands in front of a monitor displaying the Japanese yen’s exchange rate against the U.S. dollar and a TV screen showing a live broadcast of U.S. President Donald Trump speaking during election night in Tokyo on Nov. 4. PHILIP FONG\/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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U.S. President Donald Trump, in his campaign event at the White House in the early hours of Wednesday morning, sought to freeze the U.S. election in its tracks, declaring the counting of ballots to be \u201cfraud.\u201d As the ongoing vote count enters its second day, many Americans have their bleary eyes glued to Electoral College maps, where the race is neck and neck, with key battleground states like Pennsylvania not likely to have full returns until Friday. But as it turns out, international readers are also glued to the refresh button. Below, we\u2019ve rounded up some of the morning\u2019s leading headlines from newspapers and magazines around the world.<\/p>\n

United Kingdom: <\/b>Although the Times of London<\/i><\/a> didn\u2019t evaluate Trump\u2019s claims in a headline on Wednesday morning\u2014\u201cTrump claims victory and demands end to vote count\u201d\u2014the paper clarified in the article that the race is \u201cstill wide open\u201d in key states. The claims, the Times<\/i>\u2019 U.S. editor and Washington correspondent reported, amounted to a \u201cbaseless allegation.\u201d Meanwhile, the front page of the tabloid Daily Mail<\/i><\/a>, Britain\u2019s highest-circulation paper, juxtaposed Biden\u2019s growing lead in Michigan and Wisconsin with Trump\u2019s unfounded allegations of \u201csurprise ballot dumps.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ireland: <\/b>\u201cFintan O\u2019Toole: At 2.23am today, the US president launched an attempted coup,\u201d reads the front page of the Irish Times<\/i><\/a>. O\u2019Toole, a columnist at the paper, wrote that \u201cClose to half of Americans voted for him in the full knowledge that he was going to do it.\u201d The irony of this, given incoming election results, is that Trump \u201cbehaved like an autocrat even when it was quite possible that he could still win by being a democrat,\u201d O\u2019Toole wrote. Elsewhere in the paper, the Washington correspondent reported<\/a> that despite Trump\u2019s claims of victory and fraud, the election is \u201ctoo close to call.\u201d<\/p>\n

Germany:<\/b> The German newsmagazine Der Spiegel<\/i><\/a> prefaced its coverage of Tuesday\u2019s U.S. presidential election\u2014which it called \u201can attack on the nerves\u201d \u2014with two caveats. First, the contest\u2019s results won\u2019t be clear for a while. Second, and perhaps more jarring for a readership that gives Trump low marks<\/a>, Spiegel<\/i> reported that more U.S. voters have already cast their ballots for the Republican nominee than four years ago. The magazine added that this trend follows an overall uptick in voter turnout, conceding that \u201cat least that is good news.\u201d<\/p>\n

By contrast, the Bild<\/i><\/a> tabloid\u2014Germany\u2019s most widely read publication\u2014went the clickbait route, quoting Trump\u2019s unfounded claim that his lead \u201cmagically disappeared\u201d and describing the election as a \u201cthriller.\u201d It also pasted a photo of the controversial new Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett to its homepage, with an all-caps title asking<\/a>, \u201cWILL SHE DECIDE THE ELECTION FOR TRUMP?\u201d<\/p>\n

France: <\/b>\u201cDonald Trump and Joe Biden neck and neck, the United States is tearing itself apart,\u201d read the front page of Le Monde<\/i><\/a> on Wednesday morning. The paper\u2019s correspondent in Washington, favoring straightforward analysis, wrote that the race saw \u201cechoes\u201d of 2016, with the country\u2019s fate resting on a handful of states. The main difference from four years ago, Le Monde <\/i>reported, is the delay in the vote count.<\/p>\n

Spain: <\/b>El Pa\u00eds<\/i><\/a>, read widely throughout the Spanish-speaking world, declared that the United States is facing an \u201cinstitutional crisis\u201d on its front page. The paper\u2019s lead election story focuses primarily on Trump\u2019s accusations of fraud and assertions that he won, even though key swing states are still counting votes. \u201cElection night has entered the most-feared scenario,\u201d the early morning Wednesday story begins, quoting Trump at length throughout.<\/p>\n

Lebanon: <\/b>On the morning after the U.S. presidential election, Lebanon\u2019s Daily Star<\/i><\/a>said, \u201cthe rest of the world was none the wiser.\u201d The paper referenced Trump\u2019s \u201cpre-emptive declaration of victory\u201d overnight, citing civil rights groups that view the move as \u201ctrampling of long-standing democratic norms.\u201d After reviewing international leaders\u2019 mixed reactions to the too-close-to-call election, the Star<\/i> rehashed Bush v. Gore<\/i>, referencing Trump\u2019s promises to bring the 2020 election before the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Japan: <\/b>As the presidential contest narrows, the English-language Japan Times<\/i><\/a> notes that the U.S.-Japan relationship hangs in the balance\u2014with the Japanese government yet to comment on the election. In Japan, concerns are rising that the \u201cpolitical crisis\u201d in the United States sends a message of uncertainty to its allies. The results of the election are likely to shape new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga\u2019s first visit to the United States as Japan\u2019s leader, the paper reports.<\/p>\n

Singapore: <\/b>\u201cToo close to call, Biden bats away Trump victory claim,\u201d reads the front page of the Straits Times<\/i><\/a>, Singapore\u2019s major English-language daily, which also points to the president\u2019s lack of evidence of any fraud despite his late-night press conference. The paper\u2019s U.S. correspondent notes the potential for online misinformation in the days ahead as Biden calls for patience with counting mail ballots.<\/p>\n

Australia:<\/b> The Sydney Morning Herald<\/i><\/a>\u2019s North America correspondent called Trump\u2019s premature declaration of victory a \u201cdark, disturbing moment in American history\u201d in a dispatch from Washington, raising concerns about potential unrest and the integrity of U.S. democratic institutions over the next few days. \u201cA nation with widespread gun ownership, a polarised population, tribal media outlets and a reckless president has to muddle its way through as all the votes are counted,\u201d he reports.<\/p>\n

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