It was ironic. Just as CNN, AP, and other media outlets declared Biden the winner of the US presidential election, Team Trump released a weird statement that made it clear that the president was not complying with the outcome. The media declared the winner too soon. “The elections are far from over.”
Trump announced that his lawyers will go to court on Monday to challenge the election outcome over widespread voting fraud, a claim he has been pursuing for months, so far without any evidence. He wants to make sure that only “legal votes” are counted and “the American people get the election results they deserve.”
Swing states
According to Trump’s advisers (including private attorney Rudy Giuliani, who explained Saturday at a bizarre press conference in Philadelphia, in the parking lot of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping garden company – instead of at what many journalists believed, the four-star Four Seasons Hotel) the case is still completely open. Biden has not been officially designated as a winner by any state, let alone in crucial swing states where recounts are still taking place (Georgia) or lawsuits are pending (such as Pennsylvania). By reversing the outcome in those states, they hope to undermine Biden’s victory.
Team-Trump filed a lawsuit in Arizona on Saturday, where ballots were falsely rejected in Maricopa County (Biden has a 21,000 vote lead over Trump in the state). In Pennsylvania, the state where Biden was declared the winner on Saturday, legal action has been taken against taking late postal votes, a case now in the Supreme Court.
However, lawyers give the president little chance. The cases are too small and insignificant to change the outcome. Trump will lose them, as has been the case with lawsuits in Michigan (for allegedly banning observers), Georgia (request to ban late ballots), Nevada (protest against a signature verification machine) and Arizona (for a particular pen that would make ballots illegible) in recent weeks. make for the voting machines).
According to White House sources, many people in Trump’s entourage also believe the lawsuits are “pointless.” Some advisers believe that the main purpose of the legal skirmishes is to give the appearance to Trump’s voter support that their president is fighting through, possibly with a view to a political comeback in 2024.
Jared Kushner
Meanwhile, leaders in the Republican Party would be concerned. If Trump continues to act like a bad loser through stalling lawsuits, it could hurt the interests of the Grand Old Party. The hope is that intimates can change the president’s thoughts (such as chief of staff Mark Meadows, unfortunately infected with corona virus and in quarantine for a while). Son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner leaked that he had already pushed Trump this weekend to accept his loss.
Analysts don’t believe Trump will magnanimously admit defeat to Biden. He will resentfully leave the White House but before that, the fear is, still doing as much damage as possible, settling old accounts and possibly even pardoning himself over the financial malpractice lawsuits hanging over him once his presidential immunity is lifted . Above all, he can make things difficult for Biden by continuing to feed his 70 million voters the idea that Biden was unlawfully elected.
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