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The Trump administration continues to play with ostrich politics. President-elect Donald Trump (74) has been primarily concerned with golf and Twitter during the week since the election. Now his chancellor Mike Pompeo (56) has surprised with statements as if he lived on another planet. “There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration,” Pompeo told reporters Tuesday. “We are ready.”
When asked if his ministry was preparing to hand over power to President-elect Joe Biden (77) and his team, Pompeo seemed irritated. It was important, Pompeo responded, that “all legal votes” be counted and they repeat, like Vice President Mike Pence (61) and First Lady Melania (50), Trump’s new mantra. “When the process is complete, the voters will be selected,” Pompeo said. “There is a process. The constitution makes it quite clear. “
Trump and his people seem to believe in a miracle. The truth will come out. All are victims of fraud, corruption, conspiracy. The most powerful man in the world shows weaknesses like a little boy. Trump’s innermost circle, Pompeo sounds, appears to be hopeful in December’s key event, when the electorate and women hand over their sealed envelopes with voters’ votes.
Electoral coup?
On December 14, voters cast their votes, on January 6 they will be counted before both chambers and the winners of the elections will be announced. Not all states require that polling station representatives adhere to the results of elections in their state. The Supreme Court ruled in July that the electorate cannot decide according to their conscience, but must adhere to the election results in their state. The offense is subject to penalties. But the legal situation leaves room for interpretation. The constitution and state laws are silent on this matter. Only individual states have passed laws that require their constituents to vote as needed.
In the 58 presidential elections in US history, voters have counted more than 23,000 votes. In just 90 cases, voters cast a “dissident” vote, as USA Today reported. Only in one case, in the distant year 1796, the contest was closed, but the deviator could not reverse the result of the election either.
Interestingly, there was an unusually high number of dissidents in the 2016 election after Trump’s victory. Ten voters were unfair or tried to be. Eight of them were Democrats and two Republicans. At that time there was also a movement in the country for these rebels. You should have the right to decide as you see fit. Such a coup of voters, this seems to be the last hope of the Trump clan.
“There is no evidence for these claims”
Until now, lawyers for Trump and other Republicans had a wave of lawsuits. Since Election Day, they have filed a series of lawsuits in key states. However, they seem to serve as a pretext to say that the race in these important states is not yet decided.
Trump has promised “absolutely shocking” revelations. According to US media reports, most of these claims are unfounded. Even if they were successful, they would not be enough to overturn the election results. The judges have already dismissed several lawsuits, arguing that the plaintiffs did not provide evidence to support the fraud allegations.
The Trump campaign cannot prove that its own people were excluded from the count in Pennsylvania. There was a 24/7 live broadcast. In Arizona, voters are said to have used thick markers to cast their votes, the color of which was pressed through the paper and confused the counting machines. The judges decline. And in Michigan’s counting process there was a lack of transparency. Here, too, you can’t convince the judges. “There is no evidence to support these claims,” said Timothy Kenny, presiding judge in Wayne County, Michigan.
“Political theater”
According to his legal advisers, a legal battle cannot prevent the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, from taking office. Biden’s team is prepared for current Trump’s Republican Party to continue trying to “cause confusion” with the lawsuits, Biden’s legal team chief Dana Remus said at a news conference Tuesday. “At the end of the day, they have no proof and they won’t have a chance.”
Counting the votes in individual states will change nothing in Biden’s election victory, said Biden’s adviser Bob Bauer (59), who had previously acted as an adviser to President Barack Obama (59). In all the previous counts since 2000, there have only been changes of a maximum of a few hundred votes.
The Republicans’ legal advances are desperate maneuvers and “political theater,” says Bauer: “Our evidence is the many people who voted for Biden; their evidence does not exist.” (with SDA)
