When Super Tuesday starts, Stefan Åsberg is on the phone, from a California where the news reporting is more about that snow storm which has drawn in over parts of the state. In the other receiver is Fouad Youcefi, outside the court that on Monday ruled that Donald Trump’s name may not be removed from the ballots.
– My feeling is that this election campaign is decided more in court than in the ballot boxes. Much more than before, says Fouad Youcefi.
Stefan Åsberg, who has covered five US presidential elections, draws connections to the election between Al Gore and George W Bush in 2000, where the wave master state of Florida disagreed about the vote count.
– They disagreed about the vote count, the machines were not reliable, and a recount was requested above all from the democratic side, which was then stopped by the Supreme Court, says Stefan Åsberg.
Won by 500 votes
The whole thing led to George W Bush winning by just over 500 votes.
– I think there will be quite a lot of similar things this year, he says.
In Berkeley, California, interest in the election is still thin, despite the fact that millions of Americans around the country are going to vote on Tuesday.
– In practice, it has already been clear for a while that it will be Donald Trump and Joe Biden. And for Joe Biden there is really no serious challenger, apart from his age, says Fouad Youcefi.
See the conversation between Stefan Åsberg and Fouad Youcefi in the video.