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Trump Signals Continued Fight to Upend Biden Victory

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - Campaign lawyers for U.S. President Donald Trump signaled
   Tuesday they intend to contest his loss to President-elect Joe Biden
   into January, even though all states but one certified their vote
   counts showing Biden won the national election last month.

   U.S. law calls for all 50 states to certify the outcomes in their
   individual states six days ahead of next Monday's Electoral College
   vote, which determines the outcome of U.S. presidential elections. Only
   the Midwesternstate of Wisconsin missed Tuesday's "safe harbor day"
   deadline to certify its vote -- which Biden carried -- but could by the
   end of the week.

   Biden is expected to win the Electoral College vote by a 306-232
   margin, the same total that Trump won the presidency by in 2016, then
   calling it a "landslide" victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton.
   Congress is set to review and certify the Electoral College outcome on
   January 6, two weeks ahead of Biden's inauguration as the country's
   46th president.

   But Trump campaign lawyers Rudy Giuliani, hospitalized with COVID-19,
   and Jenna Ellis, who also has contracted the coronavirus, issued a
   joint statement on Tuesday describing the "Safe Harbor Deadline" as "a
   statutory timeline that generally denotes the last day for states to
   certify election results."

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