State lawmakers are told to challenge the popular mandate that Joe Biden-Kamala Harris won the ballot and award Michigan’s 16 electoral votes to Trump on the grounds that the elections were tainted – a claim that Trump’s team did not. has been able to prove in court.
Similar efforts are being made in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to steal his 20 + 10 electoral votes already won by Biden, to deprive him of the presidency.
The presidential election has been called for Biden by a 306-232 margin, and denying him 46 electoral votes through political and legal subterfuges could keep Trump in the White House for a second term despite losing both the popular vote (by six million votes) and the electoral college.
Many analysts and political commentators are alarmed by what they see as a coup. “The legal challenges to the elections are a toast. Realizing that the courts are a lost cause, Trump is now trying to convince elected officials to override the will of the voters. This is a political coup that is the definition of antidemocracy “. Daniel Goldman, a former congressional attorney warned.
Full publishers are now appearing in US newspapers and international newspapers refer to a coup in progress. There is also alarm by some of Trump’s most fervent aides urging his followers to “take back the country,” words seen as a call to arms for militant groups.
While some Republicans resist Trump’s effort to subvert the election results, the defeated president has threatened to “prime” them (defeated in the party’s internal elections), referring to them as “RINO,” Republicans in name only.
“We have a lot of support in the election hoax! … Romney has lost his mind since 2016 … @FoxNews’ big daytime ratings CRASH will only get worse!” The US president, now seen as deranged by some critics, tweeted Friday morning, even lashing out at conservative lawmakers and his former cable news channel, which is also expressing skepticism about his claims and tactics.
Senator Mitt Romney is one of the few Republican lawmakers who have had the gall to stand up to Trump, who still has the support of the majority among Republicans, many of them committed to his nativist outlook seen as a thin cover for primacy. white.
“Having failed to present a plausible case of widespread fraud or conspiracy in any court of law, the president has now resorted to open pressure on state and local officials to subvert the will of the people and overturn the elections,” said Romney the Thursday. .
Trump’s attorneys have now lost about 30 cases in court despite continuing to make outlandish accusations that they do not appear in court or withdraw before judges. In a bizarre 100-minute “press conference” broadcast Thursday only by conspiracy-filled right-wing media outlets, Trump’s lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani claimed that Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez (who died in 2013) was part of a group of communists linked to China to help rig the election in favor of Joe Biden.
As late-night comedians reveled in the comical sight of hair dye dripping down the cheeks of a profusely sweating Giuliani at the savage conspiracy conference, many commentators are alarmed by the denigration of the US electoral process and political system. ., And they warn about the decline of American credibility. worldwide. “If this had happened in any other country …” is now a frequent refrain in the American media.
Trump’s team’s tactics to subvert the election results are unfolding in disturbing detail in Michigan, where his lawyers are trying to invalidate votes in Wayne County, which includes majority-black Detroit, which went to Biden in more. 90 percent. After challenging the validity of the votes, Trump is directly pressuring local Republican officials not to certify the results that show Biden as the winner, while calling on Republican state legislators to grant him all electoral votes.
On Thursday, Trump telephoned two local Republican officials in Michigan who had initially refused to certify the results, resulting in a deadlock with his two Democratic counterparts ready to certify the results in favor of Biden according to the electoral mandate.
Republicans changed course and agreed to certify the results following pressure from agitated voters who felt their votes were being invalidated, but then changed their minds again after Trump called them, claiming they had bowed to threats to their lives. . Moderate Republicans who face defeated president also report threats from extremists who support Trump.
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