Monday, November 9, 2020

Presidential Election 2020 Biden-Harris Victory over Trump-Pence: Anandabazar Patrika Coverage

I sent in three reports over the 2020 United States presidential elections to Anandabazar Patrika (sometimes abbreviated to ABP), the Bengali (bangla) language daily newspaper with the highest print and online circulation published from Kolkata, India. All three reports were published on the front page at the top, on November 4, 5 and 9.

Incumbents Donald Trump and Mike Pence were convincingly defeated after their first term by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. A sulky Trump continued to refuse to accept failure until ejection from the White House, blaming non-existent fraud in what is in reality a spectacularly executed democratic process. Unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, low-information emotional Trump voters continued to believe in the imaginary world created by conservative media talk show hosts. This way Donald Trump could keep on using the rage of the part of the American population that he could convince into the myth of his win in the election having been stolen over a collapse of the democratic system, despite there being no evidence of such a scenraio.