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There are concerns that the president and other Republican members will do their best to stay in power. “There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday, signaling Trump does not want to step down even though Biden is elected president.
Attorney General William Barr has also authorized federal prosecutors to begin investigating alleged election fraud, a move that prompted the head of the justice department’s electoral crimes unit to step down from his position and move into another role. (Read: Trump Fires Pentagon Boss, Preparing for Military Coup against Biden?)
Furthermore, Trump maneuvered by firing Pentagon boss or Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. He also massively overhauled the structure of the Pentagon leadership and replaced it with figures considered loyal to Trump. The maneuver has sparked concern within Democrats and observers that Trump will stage a military coup against Biden to perpetuate his rule.
Despite all of Trump’s intrigues, it is highly unlikely that he will ever find a way to stay in power or stage a military coup. The following is an explanation or reason, as quoted from The Guardian, Saturday (14/11/2020);
Donald Trump refuses to accept that Joe Biden won the presidential election. Is there a constitutional way for him to stage a coup and stay in office for the next term?
Not. Electoral bodies will meet on December 14 to vote for the elected president and nearly every state uses the nationwide popular vote to allocate voters. Biden is projected to win more than 270 electoral votes, the number of votes he needs to become president of America. His win is independent of one state and he may have an insurmountable lead in Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Arizona. (Read: Panicking over the results of the US Presidential Election, Donald Trump Jr. Calls for Total War)
There is a long-term legal theory, put forward by Republicans before the election, that Republican-friendly legislatures in places like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania can ignore popular votes in their states and appoint their own voters. Federal law allows legislators to do this if states “fail to make a choice” on elecoral college election day. But there is no evidence of systemic rigging of wrongdoing in any state and the limitations of Biden’s order in these places make it clear that the states have actually made a choice.
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