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GOVERNOR: Charlie Baker of Massachusetts. Photo: Steven Senne / AP
Republican Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker calls Trump’s election fraud allegations “unfounded.”
On Tuesday, the governor criticized US President Donald Trump for delaying the process of transitioning to a Biden administration.
Despite the fact that Trump’s opponent in the election, Joe Biden, has been congratulated on the election victory by several world leaders, Trump has said that he believes that he is the one who has won the election. He has not congratulated Biden on the victory and has made several undocumented allegations of voter fraud.
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Trump and his apparatus have also begun to challenge the election results in court.
– I can’t imagine a worse time to stop a transition than in the middle of a deadly pandemic, says Baker according to CNN.
The United States is, like Europe, in the middle of a second crown wave. In the first ten days of November alone, more than a million new cases of infection were reported in the country, writes AP.
The governor of Massachusetts describes the allegations of voter fraud as “unfounded”:
– I am appalled at the baseless accusations made by the president, his team, and many other Republican-elect in Washington. I have been a Republican for 40 years. What this president is doing now is not in the best interest of the country, he says.
Baker has also commented critically on Trump before and voted accordingly. Fox News blank in this year’s presidential election. Nor should he have voted for Trump in 2016.
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US Attorney General William Barr has announced that he has asked the US Attorney’s office to investigate the “widespread allegations of dissenting votes and the counting of votes.” At the same time, he stressed that “it should not be interpreted as an indication that the Ministry of Justice has found irregularities that may have affected the electoral result.”
Next President Joe Biden describes as “shameful” the fact that Trump does not recognize the electoral defeat:
Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan has also criticized Trump after the election. When the president claimed that electoral fraud was the reason why Biden was in front of him during the vote count, the governor made the following statement on Twitter:
– There is no defense for the president’s statements tonight, they undermine our democratic process. The United States counts the votes and we must respect the results as we have always done before. No choice or person is more important than our democracy.
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Yet Trump has the support of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. It has failed to recognize Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as elected US presidents and vice presidents, and has stated that Trump has every right to check for mistakes during the election.
