“It could well be that at 10 o’clock on election night, Trump is winning in Michigan, he’s winning in Pennsylvania, he’s winning in Wisconsin, and he gets on the television and says, ‘Thank you Americans for re-electing me, it’s all over, have a good day,'" Sanders warned Jimmy Fallon. “But then the next day and the day following all those mail-in ballots start getting counted and it turns out that Joe Biden has won those states. At which point Trump says, ‘See, I told you the whole thing was fraudulent. I told you those mail-in ballots were crooked. And we’re not going to leave office.'" Trump did indeed go on TV to declare victory, through it was nearly 2:30 in the morning on the East Coast.
TOPICS: Bernie Sanders, NBC, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, 2020 Presidential Election, Late Night