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Thousands of President Donald Trump supporters marched in Washington on Saturday to back up his baseless claims of voter fraud as he forges ahead with a series of far-reaching legal challenges to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
Grump has made little progress in court with his lawsuits and for the first time on Friday he began to sound doubtful about his prospects, telling reporters that “time will tell” who has held the White House since the day of inauguration on 20 January.
Trump supporters with flags, some shouting “Stop the robbery!” and “We are the champions!” arrived at a meeting point in Freedom Plaza near the White House in downtown Washington and were to head towards the United States Supreme Court building.
The demonstrations in Washington and other cities featured a mix of supporters of the president, including conservative personalities, as well as members of the far-right group Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers militia in a public display of support for his effort to stay in power.
Trump’s caravan drove slowly through the crowd on its way from the White House to his golf course in Sterling, Virginia. Supporters waving flags chanted “America!” and “Four more years!” As the cars passed Off the field, anti-Trump protesters waved signs that included: “We vote, you are fired.”
When the marches began, Biden told reporters in Delaware that he was getting closer to forming his cabinet.
Organizers have given the pro-Trump rallies various names, including the MAGA Million March, the March for Trump and Stop the Steal. MAGA is an acronym for the Trump campaign slogan “Make America Great Again.” Trump has tweeted his support.
Protesting the marches, opponents on social media sought to create confusion by flooding the hashtags #MillionMAGAMarch and #MarchforTrump with pictures of pancakes. Some leftist groups planned counter-demonstrations in Washington and other cities.
Biden further solidified his victory on Friday when Edison Research results showed him winning Georgia, giving him a final tally of 306 Electoral College votes, far more than the 270 needed to be elected president and up from 232 for Trump.
The 306 votes equaled Trump’s tally in his 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton, which he called “crushing” at the time.
Trump briefly seemed close to acknowledging the likelihood of his leaving the White House in January during comments on the coronavirus response at a White House event on Friday.
“This administration will not go into a lockdown. Hopefully, uh, whatever happens down the road, who knows what administration it will be? I guess time will tell,” Trump said in his first public remarks since Biden was screened as the winner of the election.
With the election outcome becoming clearer, Trump has discussed with his advisers possible companies and media appearances that would keep him in the limelight ahead of a possible 2024 run for the White House, his advisers said.
His fans were enthusiastic on Saturday.
Mike Seneca stood near Freedom Plaza with his dog Zena, a King Corso dressed in a red “All American Dog” t-shirt, said he was endorsing the president.
“It’s hard to believe he wouldn’t have won,” Seneca said, echoing the president’s baseless allegations that the mail-in ballots favoring Biden were fraudulent.
“There should be some kind of way to verify that these votes come from the people who sent them,” he said.
Fail in court
Trump has refused to bow to Biden, claiming without proof that he was duped by widespread election fraud. State election officials do not report serious wrongdoing, and several of their legal challenges have failed in court.
A Michigan state court on Friday rejected a request by Trump supporters to block the certification of votes in Detroit, which was largely in favor of Biden. And Trump’s campaign attorneys dropped a lawsuit in Arizona after the final vote count there rendered it void.
Federal election security officials have found no evidence that any voting system has eliminated, lost or changed votes, “or has been compromised in any way,” two security groups said in a statement issued Thursday by the main voting agency. cybersecurity of the United States.
To win a second term, Trump would need to reverse Biden’s leadership in at least three states, but so far he has not been able to present evidence that he could do so in any of them.
States face a December 8 deadline to certify their elections and elect voters to the Electoral College, which will officially select the new president on December 14.
Trump’s refusal to accept defeat has stalled the official transition. The federal agency providing funding to an incoming president-elect, the General Services Administration, has yet to acknowledge Biden’s victory, denying him access to federal office space and resources.
Biden, who will meet with transition advisers on Saturday in his home state of Delaware, has moved forward with the process, identifying legislative priorities, reviewing federal agency policies and preparing to fill thousands of jobs in the new administration. .
The Democrat took a bike ride Saturday morning with his wife Jill and some Secret Service agents in Delaware’s Cape Henlopen State Park. One journalist yelled “Are you closer to making a cabinet decision?” Biden replied, “Yes” as he passed.
Reuters
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