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Trump, Allies Take Frantic Steps to Overturn Biden's Victory

Associated Press

   WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and his allies are taking
   increasingly frantic steps to subvert the results of the 2020 election,
   including summoning state legislators to the White House as part of a
   longshot bid to overturn Joe Biden's victory.
   Among other last-ditch tactics: personally calling local election
   officials who are trying to rescind their certification votes in
   Michigan, suggesting in a legal challenge that Pennsylvania set aside
   the popular vote there and pressuring county officials in Arizona to
   delay certifying vote tallies.
   Election law experts see it as the last, dying gasps of the Trump
   campaign and say Biden is certain to walk into the Oval Office come
   January. But there is great concern that Trump's effort is doing real
   damage to public faith in the integrity of U.S. elections.
   Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, one of Trump's most vocal GOP critics,
   accused Trump of resorting to "overt pressure on state and local
   officials to subvert the will of the people and overturn the election."
   Romney added, "It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic
   action by a sitting American President."

     [1]pic.twitter.com/S3kFsIRGmi
     -- Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) [2]November 20, 2020

   Trump's own election security agency has declared the 2020 presidential
   election to have been the most secure in history. Days after that
   statement was issued, Trump fired the agency's leader.
   The increasingly desperate and erratic moves have no reasonable chance
   of changing the outcome of the 2020 election, in which Biden has now
   received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history
   and has clinched the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win.
   But the Republican president's constant barrage of baseless claims, his
   work to personally sway local officials who certify votes and his
   allies' refusal to admit he lost is likely to have a lasting negative
   impact on the country. Legions of his supporters don't believe he lost.
   "It's about trying to set up the conditions where half of the country
   believes that there are only two possibilities, either they win or the
   election was stolen," said Justin Levitt, a constitutional law scholar
   and professor at Loyola Law School. "And that's not a democracy."

References

   1. https://t.co/S3kFsIRGmi
   2. https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1329629701447573504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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