DeSantis warns against dragging vote count beyond election night: 'Absolutely killing public trust'

Finding out who will be America's 47th president could take quite some time after election night, if speculations from a recent New York Times article prove true.

With just over 50 days left until voters head to the ballot box in droves, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says taking the counting beyond election night is "outrageous."

"You'll have one candidate that may have a big lead because of Election Day votes and then people wake up the next morning and say, 'Yeah, my candidate's up 6%,' and then they keep counting the next day, and then they count more the next day, and then the lead flips," he told "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo.

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"Even if there was nothing [wrong], even if it was all on the up and up, that destroys confidence on how these elections happen," he continued. "So any of those states that are doing what The New York Times is saying, they are absolutely killing public trust in these elections."

"Count the votes on election night and report the results."

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The Times article, published Friday, suggested the trend for the 2020 presidential election could echo into the 2024 faceoff, with an increasing likelihood that there will be "no clear and immediate winner on election night" and that "early returns could give a false impression of who will ultimately prevail."

The lengthy return times and the blue or red election night mirage are predominantly credited to an increasing use of mail-in ballots over traditional in-person voting.

DeSantis pledged to reiterate the Sunshine State's example from 2020 this time, by having