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The outgoing US president, Donald Trump, remains entrenched in his accusation, without evidence, of electoral “fraud” and returned yesterday to his private golf club in Sterling (Virginia) without acknowledging his defeat in last Tuesday’s elections. , while the already elected president, Joe Biden, launched his transition team.
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Deaf to the celebrations that lasted into the night in Washington, and that were concentrated in front of the square where the White House is located in the center of the US capital, Trump left again in the morning for his golf club.
If on Saturday he issued a statement in which he stressed that “the elections had not yet finished” and denounced, again without evidence, “electoral fraud”, yesterday he simply limited himself to citing two journalists from Fox, his favorite channel, who allege irregularities. And Twitter labeled the posts “in dispute.”
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I think the White House has made it clear what their strategy is here and that they will continue to participate and agitate these plans.
Trump’s re-election campaign has promised to file more lawsuits to challenge the outcome in several key states, but it is highly unlikely that these demands will invalidate a large volume of votes.
But for Trump it would not be enough to prove fraud in court in a single state, but he should do it in several to cover the wide gap between the delegates he now has insured in the Electoral College, 214, and those he would need to be reelected, 270. And only a small circle of close associates supported the initiative to multiply the judicial processes of Trump, who is visibly isolated.
Historically, once the media projects the final result in the US elections, after a few hours, the defeated usually calls the victorious candidate to congratulate him. However, it seems that Trump, who has been characterized by his rejection of political traditions, He does not plan to admit defeat anytime soon.
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One of Biden’s advisers, Symone Sanders, said yesterday that “several Republicans” in Congress have contacted the president-elect, but no one from Trump’s inner circle, who has been visibly isolated.
“I think the White House has made it clear what their strategy is here and that they will continue to participate and agitate these plans, in many cases without legal basis,” Sanders said in an interview with CNN.
Dondald Trump supporters wave flags and banners outside the golf club where the president is.
One of the few Republicans who did come out to congratulate Biden was former 2012 presidential candidate and senator Mitt Romney, who showed his willingness to work with the president-elect. “I would like to see a more elegant exit (from Trump) but it is not part of his character”Romney acknowledged.
In addition to Trump’s silence, it is surprising that of prominent Republican leaders, who have not commented on the matter either. This is the case of Mitch McConnell, the leader of the conservative majority in the Senate and one of the heavyweights of the party, who has avoided commenting, for the moment, on Biden’s victory.
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For his part, the leader of the Republican minority in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, insisted yesterday that “all legal votes must be counted, all ballots completed and all legal objections heard.” “Only then does the US decide who has won the elections,” he remarked on Fox. Likewise, Senator Lindsey Graham yesterday urged Trump to “fight hard” and not acknowledge his loss to Biden.
But, despite the fact that there are states in which the close result requires a recount, as is the case of Georgia (see attached note), the truth is that Trump’s legal capacity to dispute is limited, since the advantage achieved by the Democrat it is considered irreversible.
Trump supporters waited in Virginia this Sunday for the president to leave his golf club.
Biden and Kamala Harris became US president and vice president-elect on Saturday morning, after four days of agonizing scrutiny after Tuesday’s election.
On Saturday the main television networks broadcast their projections that gave the Democratic candidate as the winner, after he extended his lead in Pennsylvania by more than 30,000 votes over Trump, and reached 279 votes for the Electoral College.
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The president-elect yesterday revealed his plans for the transition of power, with the pandemic, economic recovery, racial inequality and the climate crisis at the top of his priorities.
Biden and his team launched the official transition website, detailing their plans. But on Trump’s side, little has leaked so far about his intentions for that long period ahead until the Democrat’s inauguration on January 20.
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The president-elect maintained his Sunday routine yesterday by attending mass at a church near his home in Wilmington (Delaware). Biden, a practicing Catholic, attended Saint Joseph on the Brandywine Church with his daughter Ashley and his grandson Hunter.
As often happens, the already president-elect left the temple before the end of the service to avoid upsetting the rest of the parishioners given the large number of journalists and his security entourage. Shortly after, he headed to a nearby cemetery where his son Beau, as well as his first wife, Neilia, and daughter Naomi are buried.
EFE
