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President Trump risks shooting himself and the Republican Party in the foot.
Through his threatening call to change the outcome of the elections, he not only runs the risk of prosecution.
Furthermore, your questioning of the election result may cause Republicans to ignore the all-important Senate election in Georgia tomorrow.
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Donald Trump is shooting himself and Republicans in the foot, believes Wolfgang Hansson.
Donald Trump does not seem to know borders. Although the outcome of the elections in every state in the United States was determined as early as mid-December, he called Georgia General Election Brad Raffensperger on Saturday and tried with threatening pressure to get him to “find 11,780” votes. One more with which Joe Biden won the state.
Never before has a US president been forced to urge those responsible to cheat in order to win an election.
Because that is exactly what Trump is doing.
Hearing him pressure his fellow Raffensperger party is like listening to a mob boss at work.
“The people of Georgia are angry,” Trump said. The people of the country are angry. There’s nothing wrong with saying that you, uh, counted the votes.
– You know what they (the Democrats) did but you haven’t reported it. It’s a crime. This represents a great risk to you and Ryan, your attorney. A great risk.
Can hit back
Trump’s inability to realize and accept that he lost the presidential election on November 3 of last year runs the risk of countering him in a number of ways, both personally and from the Republican Party.
* Republicans could lose power in the Senate.
Tomorrow there will be two additional Senate elections in Georgia. This is because none of the candidates received more than 50 percent in November. If the Democrats win both seats, they will win a majority in the Senate. The position will be 50-50, but since Vice President Kamala Harris gets a swing vote, it will be the Democrats who control the Senate. This would make it much easier for incoming President Joe Biden to approve his policy.
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Georgia’s Electoral General Brad Raffensperger was subjected to threats from Trump.
Stay at home
* Trump’s hoax can keep voters at home
It seems that many Republican voters believe Trump’s unfounded accusations that it was a cheat that caused him to lose. This increases the risk that a significant percentage of Republicans in Georgia will not bother to vote. Why go to the polls if cheating still decides the election in favor of the Democrats?
Opinion polls show that it is extremely even between Black pastor Raphael Warnock and Senator Kelly Loeffler (Republican) and journalist Jon Ossoff and Senator David Perdue (Republican). In other words, it may be enough for a fairly small percentage of Republicans to abstain from voting for the two Democrats to win.
Something that in normal times would be unlikely because Georgia primarily votes Republican.
* Trump’s phone calls can be criminal
According to legal experts in the United States, there are federal and state laws that make it illegal to try to improperly influence the outcome of elections. After January 20, when Joe Biden was sworn in as president, Donald Trump will once again be a common citizen without immunity from prosecution. He then risks being sued by state and federal prosecutors for his recorded telephone conversation with Raffensperger.
There are even Democrats who want to take Trump to the Supreme Court for abuse of power a second time. However, that is unlikely to happen because Trump has just over two weeks left in power.
Risk of incarceration
Prosecution after your resignation carries a risk of imprisonment.
If Republicans lose a majority in the Senate, it increases the risk for Donald Trump of investigations against him being launched in Congress, which could then lead to prosecutions in ordinary courts. This could be, for example, President Trump’s failure to deal with the crown pandemic, which has already claimed the lives of more than 350,000 Americans.
While the leaders of many other countries have at least tried to reduce the spread of the infection, Trump has largely ignored the risks of the virus.
But Donald Trump does not seem to realize the risks of his own behavior. Nothing seems more important to you than not looking like a loser. An attitude that paradoxically increases the risk that it is just that in more ways than one. A loser. “
Joe Biden won the election with 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232. Biden also won with a total dominance of seven million votes.
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