Nick Harper: FSN Correspondent on the potential claims of voter fraud in the US Election

Claims of voter fraud are already hanging over the US election as millions of Americans head to the polls. 

Almost a third of eligible voters have cast an early ballot. 

Experts say the result could go either way, with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris still neck-and-neck in the key battleground states.  

FSN Correspondent Nick Harper told Ryan Bridge there are fears Trump will sow confusion and misinformation by calling his win prematurely. 

He says if Trump were to lose, it's likely he will claim the vote was rigged against him. 

Harper says it may be days until the final results are clear. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are heading to the United States to Washington, DC.
Nick Harper is and if it's in correspondent with US
Live this morning. As America goes to the polls, We've
had the Ohio Senator and running Trumps running mate Jady
Vance vote already in Ohio, and Nick is with US Live. Nick,
Good morning, Good morning, Ryan. Tell me what we're exactly
are the candidates at the moment and when are we

(00:21):
expecting them to vote?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, they're all spread out around the country, essentially voting
where they are stationed. So we've had JD. Van's voting
in Ohio. Donald Trump is due up in Florida at
any time soon. Kamala Harris is here in Washington, d C.
Where she's going to remain for the day, and Tim
Woltz is over in Minnesota. So scattered across the country
coming together later on. But we have had more than

(00:45):
eighty two million Americans vote early ahead of election day.
That's about a third of all eligible voters. And now
we are hearing long lines at multiple polling stations right
across the country.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Why DC whire's Harrison d C.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, there are some options where she could potentially go
California as her home state, but here really has been
her home for the last three and a half four
years as vice president. But it really is looking ahead
to this evening where she has decided to hold her
election night event, choosing Howard University to alma matera where

(01:22):
she went. It's the historically at black university here in
the heart of Washington, DC, and of course that racial
element has been central to her campaign. She is hoping
that she has people of color rallying behind her, as
they often do behind Democrats, but she is hoping that
that will happen this evening at a time when she
is hoping that she could become not just the first

(01:44):
female president, but the first black female president of the
United States.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
If things get a bit topsy turvy, if things aren't
going well for Trump tonight, what are the contingency plans?
And is that part of the reason that she's in
DC because she wants to be seen to be in
control of that particular location.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, potentially, yes, I mean there is some thinking that
Donald Trump will decide to call a win for him
early no matter what is happening, even if the polls
are not suggesting, or even if there are not enough
votes in to suggest that he is won. There is
that concern that he may go ahead with that, and
that would obviously so confusion, misinformation and prompt lawsuits if

(02:28):
he were to actually go ahead and lose, and he
could therefore suggest, as he did back in twenty twenty,
that the vote was rigged against him. So Kamala Harris
I guess is trying to distance herself from that. We've
already heard accusations of vote rigging in the last couple
of days from Donald Trump, and she has tried to
push back against that. The hope is that things will
run smoothly, but there is a real potential, but it

(02:49):
could take several days for all of this to come
out in the wash and for us to actually find
out who is the eventual winner of the election.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
There's also, of course, the race for the House and
for the Senate.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Any picks there, well, it is going to be incredibly tight,
and again that is something that we may not know
for some time. The House in particular, just because of
the closeness of some of those races across the country,
there is some thinking that it might not be known
who has control of the House until after we find
out who has become the president. I mean it is

(03:23):
being spoken about as the closest race in recent history,
not just for the president, but also for control of
the two chambers of Congress.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Nick, thanks very much for your time this morning, Nick Habot,
if it's in correspondent in Washington, DC. For more from
earlier edition with Ryan Bridge, listen live to News Talks.

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