Voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams in a Reuters interview Tuesday warned the announced winner of the November 3 U.S. presidential election could be delayed as the pandemic forces many to vote-by-mail instead of traditional in-person voting.

Abrams said we may not know by 11pm who the next president of the United States will be, unless there is early overwhelming support on election night for either the incumbent President Donald Trump or his challenger former Vice President Joe Biden.

Getting out a decisive Democratic win will be key, she said, to tamping down any claims of voter fraud due to what is expected to be an unusually high use of mail-in ballots.
The voting rights advocate had been frequently named as a potential running mate for Biden..

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