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Laura Gamboa

Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah. PhD in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame. Her main interst is on institutions and political regimes in Latin America.

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The Strategy: To Delay and Delegitimize

Like other authoritarian presidents Trump declared that he had won all three competing states and established that any change in the trend was fraudulent and asked that they stop counting the votes. His speech set the stage for controversy and de-legitimization of the changes generated by absentee ballots.