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His opponents spoke of an unprecedented maneuver, an attack on the elections, an attempted coup. For more than two weeks, Donald Trump had refused to admit defeat to Joe Biden, for more than two weeks he had blocked the change of power in the White House. But now Trump has relented, in his own way, but at least. Monday night the president tweetedthat he had instructed his team “in the interest of the country” to start the handover process. Emily Murphy, head of the federal administration, should “do whatever it takes.”
That was him, the moment when Trump publicly signaled that he could no longer delay the inevitable. The moment when he seemed to accept reality: Joe Biden will be the new president starting January 20.
Shortly before, Murphy had sent a letter to Biden on behalf of the General Services Administration (GSA) formally recognizing him as the winner of the presidential election. This step of authority is necessary for Biden’s team to receive federal funding, but above all access to documents and offices, and to be allowed to contact employees of the current administration to prepare for a smooth transition. Normally, this would have been a long time ago, and Murphy, who was appointed to his job by Trump, recently came under heavy pressure from Democrats to clear the way for the transfer.
For opponents and supporters, one thing is clear: the thing is over
Now she has Transition That’s how it started, and was first made visible by three small letters: The website that Biden’s transition team created now runs on the domain ending “.gov,” which is reserved for the United States government. Biden’s team now has access to $ 6.3 million, among other things, which is intended for the smooth transfer of official business.
Trump did not admit that he lost the election in his Monday night tweets, quite the contrary. He announced that he would keep fighting: “I think we will win!” Then he added: Just because the GSA can cooperate with Democrats does not mean that it is abandoning its complaints against “the most corrupt elections in American history.”
But in Washington, both his opponents and many of his supporters seemed to agree that the matter was over. “That is probably closer to what President Trump could have admitted,” said Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader in the Senate.
Indeed, after the events of the past few days, Trump was left with few options. He has practically exhausted his legal options after his attorneys presented no evidence of widespread voter fraud in any court. And Trump’s attempt to postpone the official certification of the results in the states has so far been unsuccessful.
The president suffered the biggest setback in this matter in Michigan, where the responsible electoral commission confirmed Monday that Biden had won the state by 155,000 votes. This step would be a formality in almost every election year. This time, however, Trump and his allies had lobbied the two Republican members of the commission to vote against the authentication, or at least to postpone it.
The president hoped to reverse the result: without a certified result, at least on paper, there would have been a chance that Michigan’s Republican-dominated parliament would intervene and Trump would have been the winner in the disputed. State of oscillation explained. However, this maneuver failed with the vote of the electoral commission. In addition to the two Democrats on the panel, a Republican also voted to have the votes certified. The other Republican abstained. “Democracy won,” said Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s Democratic Home Secretary.
Trump also suffered another setback in Pennsylvania, the most important State of oscillation. There, his lawyers had failed in court with a lawsuit demanding that the certification be postponed. On Monday, most districts also certified the results, making Biden’s victory in the state as good as it was official. In Georgia, where Biden had also emerged as the winner, the result had already been certified over the weekend after a recount of all votes.
More and more Republicans are venturing out of coverage
So it’s not surprising that more and more Republicans are venturing out of previously silent coverage. Four other senators from the party spoke on Monday and asked Trump to acknowledge the election result. “I voted for President Trump, but Joe Biden won,” Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana tweeted. That is clear after the certification of the results in Michigan. Trump’s attorneys have not presented any evidence of massive fraud that was needed to reverse the election. “In the interest of the country, the transfer of power should start now.”
Other Republicans also appealed to the president. He hopes Trump will now put the welfare of the country first and allow for a speedy and orderly delivery to help the “new government,” said Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. “When you’re in public life, people remember the last thing you did.”
And then there were Trump’s allies in the media. Few have defended the president in the past four years like Laura Ingraham, one of the star anchors of the conservative television channel Fox News. But on Monday night, Ingraham gave a new note on his broadcast. She widely praised Trump for his successes, used harsh words against Biden, but then said he will not lie now: “Unless the legal situation changes dramatically and improbably, Joe Biden will do so on January 20. Jury in office “.
