Attempts were made to invalidate Joe Biden’s victory, without success.

Biden won, Trump is still fighting: 2020 US presidential election

On November 3, a presidential election was held in the United States. The competition between Republican Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden was very close in several states, so it turned out only on November 7 that Joe Biden would be the 46th president of the United States. Follow the events and possible consequences of the prolonged presidential election on hvg.hu.

The US Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by the state of Texas that sought to invalidate the victory of Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the November 3 presidential elections in four member states.

Texas argued that massive fraud had occurred in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The petition was joined by several state justice ministers and several Republican members of the Washington Congress. President Donald Trump also announced Thursday that he will join the Texas lawsuit as a plaintiff.

According to the court, Texas has no locus standi in the case because it could not legally establish its interest in holding the elections in another member state.

In Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where Joe Biden won, he asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit, which they said was unfounded.

According to news agencies, the Supreme Court ruling will mark the end of the hitherto unsuccessful judicial measures taken by Trump’s election campaign staff to reverse the outcome of the presidential election.

Trump wrote on Twitter at midnight Friday that “The Supreme Court has really let us down. There is no wisdom, there is no courage! “In a message from the incumbent president, he complained that the court had thrown the case” at lightning speed “even though it had won more votes than any previous president. Finally he declared:” This is a forged election, Let’s keep fighting! “

Trump Party Protesters at an Austin Movement in Texas in November 2020

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White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said there could be no different assessment of what happened than the fact that the court “evaded” the response.) “They evaded, they hid behind the proceedings and they refused to use their authority to enforce the constitution,” he added.

The spokesman for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, on the other hand, said it should come as no surprise that the court rejected an “unfounded attempt” to deny Trump’s defeat.

Biden can claim 306 electoral votes, as much as Trump won four years ago. Additionally, Biden outscored Donald Trump by more than seven million votes across the country.

Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, one of those who declared the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday, said that many people have misled voters with various fabrications since Election Night, such as throwing the term “Kenyan-born race “. This refers to former President Barack Obama, who has long been accused by his opponents of not having been born in the United States, so he could not have been elected president.

Also very damaging was the widespread conspiracy theory that the late Venezuelan head of state, Hugo Chávez, interfered in the US elections, Sasse said. All Americans who care about the rule of law, including Trump (his advisers), should be comforted by the closing of the Supreme Court case, he added.

Michigan MP Justin Amash, a former Republican but has become independent and has repeatedly vehemently criticized the incumbent president and his party, said: “Voter fraud will prove to be one of the most shameful and dishonest episodes in American political history. in hindsight, mostly because countless Republican officials agreed with him and promoted him. “

Trump’s most important allies did not bow to the court ruling. Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, who was behind several attempts to overthrow Biden’s victory in court, claimed once again, without concrete evidence, that the election was “stolen.” Fox News told the TV station: “I think this (Biden’s victory) will be a terrible thing in American history.” At the same time, he encouraged more efforts.

Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, said: “There may be more lawsuits, but they won’t change the election results.” “The controversy over the legitimacy of the Biden presidency and the election in general will return in the next few years. And that is the real tragedy, “he added.

(Cover image: A helping hand from Biden and Trump will be held at a meeting in Texas. Photo: Sergio FLORES / AFP)



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