The few bugs they have discovered are not enough to nullify the results, giving the Biden-Harris ballot a clear victory at the national level, albeit a narrow one in the battlefield states. Even the attorneys representing Trump’s argument are bailing out the cases.
But defeated President Donald Trump stubbornly refuses to budge. He has mounted a furious campaign to denigrate the term Biden has earned, with a storm of tweets and retweets spreading falsehoods, distortions and outright lies, while his henchmen have blocked transition rights to Biden-Harris’ incoming new dispensation. . During all this time, the coronavirus pandemic is spiraling out of control, and the United States is now on the verge of registering 150,000 daily cases.
The charitable take on the electoral stalemate engineered by the defeated president is that he is laying the groundwork for a White House in 2024 by taking a tough stance before the 72 million people who voted for him, and that he will step down once the states formally certify the results of the elections. No one seriously expects that the recounts, which typically move a few hundred votes in either direction, will make a difference when the win-loss margins are in the thousands. Standing firm also gives Republicans the ballast to try to win the two runoff elections in Georgia on January 5, the results of which could decide control of the Senate currently hanging 50-48 in favor of the Republican Party.
The most fearful view is that Trump is digging for the long haul, practically mounting a political coup in defiance of Biden’s term, with no clear mechanism on how to resolve it. The president’s “MAGA base” is expected to arrive in Washington DC this weekend to express their support even as he continues to tweet that he has won, or will win in the recounts. On Thursday morning, Trump claimed he had won 73 million votes (AP’s tally shows he just crossed 72 million), not to mention that Biden has won an additional five million votes, after having crossed 77 million, the Highest popular vote nationwide (50.8 percent) since Ronald. 50.7 percent of Reagan.
Meanwhile, world leaders do not expect Trump to budge. Angela Merkel of Germany, Justin Trudeau of Canada, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison are among those who have spoken with Biden to discuss bilateral and global issues, despite that the Trump-Pompeo State Department has not facilitated the exchanges as required by the transition protocol. The State Department is said to be sitting on a pile of messages from foreign leaders to President-elect Joe Biden, while refusing to provide the transition team with the necessary translation and logistical support to engage the world.
Trump and his staunch loyalists are now transitioning into their own echo chamber, ditching what the mainstream media outlets have called Biden’s election, and the “big tech” they say is censoring their points of view. The defeated president has even turned against the wise advice of conservative media outlets like the Wall Street Journal and Fox, which was previously his favorite playground, not to mention ignoring the big Republicans who warn of the harm that a confrontation would bring. prolonged could cause the US position the world. “Once his days in court are over, President Trump should do his part to unite the country by leading a peaceful transition and letting go of grievances,” advised former Bush aide KarlRove at the WSJ, with no signs that Trump is ready. to do it.
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For its part, the incoming team is expressing concern about a pandemic situation out of control when it takes over the reins of administration on January 20. “Our country faces a series of crises: a global pandemic, a recession, systemic racism and the climate crisis. @JoeBiden and I are ready to roll up our sleeves and get to work now,” tweeted Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris Thursday morning, with no sign that Trump is about to turn around and leave the White House.
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