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As Joe Biden receives congratulations as president of the United States, incumbent Donald Trump wants to challenge the election results with more demands. Trump has no proof of his allegations.
Donald Trump continues to deny his defeat in the US presidential election and is taking further lawsuits to overturn the result of the vote. In the important state of Pennsylvania, his lawyers are attacking the vote counting and voting-by-mail system. Trump also reiterated his allegations of fraud regarding the Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin elections in a series of tweets on Monday. There are still no confirmed cases of voter fraud in favor of President-elect Joe Biden.
“Nevada turns out to be a cesspool of false voices,” Trump wrote on Twitter, promising “absolutely shocking” revelations. Twitter immediately provided a warning to the president’s tweet because it was a controversial assertion about the election.
Trump also wrote that he would win the state of Georgia, where Biden is ahead, “like on election night.” Biden had taken the lead after the mail-in votes were counted. In light of the crown pandemic, Democratic voters in particular had voted by mail. The state’s Lieutenant Governor, Republican Geoff Duncan, told CNN on Monday that he had not encountered any significant cases of voter fraud. Given the adjusted result, a recount in Georgia is highly likely.
Georgia will be a great presidential victory, as it was Election Night!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2020
That’s what lawsuits in Pennsylvania are about
The lawsuits in Pennsylvania refer, on the one hand, to Trump’s claim that Republicans were denied the opportunity to see a large chunk of the vote count. Republicans also argue that by voting by mail, some districts with a high Democratic population violated the rules and the system as a whole is vulnerable to fraud. Pennsylvania, with 20 electoral votes for the presidential election, was a crucial state that helped Biden win.
Republican Party leader Ronna McDaniel admitted that she did not know if legal action would be enough to change the outcome in Trump’s favor. Trump’s spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany hinted to Democrats at a press conference that they would approve of the fraud. The Fox News television channel, which has sided with the president in recent years, later shut down because the allegations were not proven.
McConnell: Trump has the right to an investigation
Influential Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke Monday of only “preliminary results” of the election. “President Trump has one hundred percent the right to investigate allegations of wrongdoing and examine his legal options,” he said in the Senate. So far, only four Republican senators have congratulated Biden on his election victory: Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Ben Sasse. They were previously known as deviants from the core of the Republican Party, and they could play an important role for Biden as president if Republicans maintained control of the Senate.
For this, the second-round elections for the two Senate seats in Georgia in early January should be decisive. Republican incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler asked the state secretary of state to resign after the election results because the voting was poorly organized. He rejected the accusations. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger wrote on Twitter that there were certainly cases of illegal voting in Georgia. But it is unlikely they would have been big enough for Trump to win the state.
United States Attorney General Allows Prosecutors to Investigate Voter Fraud
According to media reports, US Attorney General William Barr has given prosecutors permission to investigate allegations of voter fraud before the final results are announced. Such proceedings are likely to be initiated if there are “clear and seemingly credible allegations of wrongdoing” that may have affected the outcome of elections in a state, the minister’s letter to prosecutors said. This was reported on Monday night (local time) by the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, among others.
Generally, prosecutors can only act once the final results are available. After the November 3 election, this could take days or weeks, depending on local law. States must have reported their certified final results to Washington by December 8.
The incumbent president speaks of voter fraud after Tuesday’s election and hopes to reverse Biden’s victory by taking legal action. Biden was declared the winner on Saturday based on US media forecasts. Meanwhile, heads of state and government around the world, including Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), congratulated Biden on his victory.
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