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MSNBC 11/3/2020 12:44:30 PM: ...for a long period of time after the election is over. >> and that is raising the prospect of lawsuits, which he has also signaled, possible protests and other delays. joining me now is paul submitting, the vice president for litigation and strategy at the Campaign Legal Center and a professor at georgetown university law Center, and jeremy bash, former chief of staff of the cia and the pentagon. paul smith, you just heard the president. has the country ever formally declared a winner on election night with all those outstanding absentee ballots? >> no, there's no process for a formal declaration of a winner for actually several weeks. the states take their time counting the votes, certifications are done, and then of course the electoral college meets. what we're used to on election night is networks declaring a winner and often the loser conceding but that's all a very unofficial process. >> as we saw with bush and gore, there was actually a concession from al gore that was taken back, then it was litigated for more than 30 days up to the supreme court. paul, let's talk about the legal issues here, because you've got a supreme court that is obviously now, with a new republican conservative, is potentially a 6-3 supreme court. but that's not the way they've been coming down so far. we haven't seen her vote on a case yet, but in any case there have been some different rulings so far in wisconsin and pennsylvania. >> right, they've gone back and forth on whether to allow ...
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