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Formalities are of particular importance this time because of Trump’s refusal to admit defeat.
5:04 pm, December 14, 2020
Almost six weeks after the US elections. Future President Joe Biden is facing another major hurdle ahead of his inauguration: In all 50 US states and the Capital District of Washington, a total of 538 electorates will gather Monday to vote on the future president. In the vast majority of states, the winner of the election gets all the votes of the local electorate.
According to certified results, Democrat Biden has 306 constituencies and Republican Donald Trump 232. The result will not be officially announced until January 6 in Congress in Washington.
Biden will be sworn in on January 20 in Washington. Trump continues to oppose his defeat in the November 3 election. The president is indirectly elected in the United States. The winner is whoever can unite at least 270 voters.
According to the Scientific Service of the United States Congress, the electorate then counts the votes at their meeting. Various certificates record how many votes each candidate received. They are sent, signed by all voters, to Vice President Mike Pence in his capacity as President of the United States Senate and to other institutions of the respective state and federal government. Biden announced that he would comment on Monday night (local time).
Voting by voters is usually a formality, because the losing candidate often admits defeat on election night. But Trump still claims that he actually won the election and is deprived of his victory by fraud. He wrote on Twitter on Sunday: “How do states and politicians confirm an election in which corruption and irregularities are constantly documented?” Neither Trump nor his lawyers or supporters have provided evidence to back up their allegations.
So far, the Trump camp has failed with more than 50 lawsuits against the election result. On Friday, the Washington Supreme Court also dismissed a lawsuit aimed at overturning Biden’s victory in four states. Trump announced in an interview broadcast Sunday on Fox News that he still wanted to continue legally fighting his defeat. “It’s not over,” he said. There are still “several local cases” in the states where his lawyers have taken action against the election result. Trump has no real chance.
Trump had harshly criticized the Supreme Court decision on Saturday. “This is a great and scandalous judicial error. The people of the United States have been betrayed and our country has been ashamed,” he wrote on Twitter. Trump again claimed that he won the election with a “landslide victory.” There is no basis for this. Over the weekend, Twitter provided several tweets from Trump with warnings that the manipulation he claims was controversial in the election.
Justice Minister William Barr was also in Trump’s sights on Saturday. The Wall Street Journal reported that Barr had known about the investigations against Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, since the spring. Barr wanted to keep this investigation out of the election campaign. Trump retweeted a Twitter message calling for Barr’s firing if the report was true. The president wrote: “A great disappointment!”
The Supreme Court had already rejected a request for judicial protection last Tuesday, with which the Trump side wanted to reverse Biden’s victory in the state of Pennsylvania. Critics suspect that Trump’s refusal to acknowledge his defeat was an attempt to continue collecting donations from his supporters. Trump’s team is still asking for donations to support the lawsuits. Only from the fine print is it clear that the majority of the funds will go to an organization that Trump could use for other political purposes.
The responsible US authorities had declared the election to be the safest in the United States. More recently, Attorney General Barr had also said there was no evidence of fraud to the extent that it could change the outcome. All 50 states and the capital city of Washington have certified their results.
Following the death of Liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September, Trump had pushed to swiftly fill the Supreme Court seat with conservative attorney Amy Coney Barrett ahead of the Supreme Court elections. He also explicitly referred to a possible dispute over the outcome of the elections. Conservatives now dominate the court with a majority of six to three votes. However, the Trump camp’s previous lawsuits have been dismissed by judges regardless of whether they were nominated by Democratic or Republican presidents.
