Donald Trump on Monday visited the U.S. His increasingly frustrating efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election could be shattered when the 8,538 members of the Electoral College ledge will vote and Joe Biden will formally send the White House.
Under the formula followed by the United States after the first election in 1789, Monday’s vote in the Electoral College will mark the official moment, while Biden will be the 46th president-elect. Voters, including political figures like Bill and Hillary Clinton, will gather in state capitals across the country to cement the results of this important membership.
In general, the process is rhetorical and rarely noticed. This year, given Trump’s shaky performance of tilting at the windmill in an attempt to deny the will of the American people, it will bring real political significance.
Trump continued those quick-tick tick efforts over the weekend, spreading political unrest in many cities, including the country’s capital. On Sunday morning he Tweeted In all caps, this is “the most corrupt election in U.S. history!” Was.
In an interview with Fox & Friends aired Sunday, he insisted that his anti-democratic mission had not been completed. “We continue and we continue to move forward,” he said, adding that the election was rigged.
Trump’s lies about winning in key states, including Pennsylvania and Georgia, were completely discouraged by Fox News interviewer Brian Kilmed.
Any hopes of a movement to hang Trump to power were dashed on Friday, when the U.S. Supreme Court abruptly rejected a lawsuit filed by Texas to win Biden’s victory in four other states. In a separate case, a Wisconsin Supreme Court judge rejected Trump’s 200,000-vote vote, saying he was “hit by racism.”
Despite Trump’s apparent lack of tolerance in dozens of cases before the country’s Supreme Court, his unprecedented move to tear down democratic standards is doing countless damage to the country with potential long-term consequences. Texas-led pressure to reverse the election result was backed by 126 Republicans in the House of Representatives – nearly two-thirds of the party council – as well as Republican state attorney generals from 18 states.
Among the vast majority of voters, a recent Quinnipiac University poll found that 77% of Republicans believe November – mistakenly – that the November election was marred by widespread voter fraud.
Another revelation of the damage being done is the violence that erupted in several cities on Saturday night. In Washington, D.C., four people were stabbed and in need of hospital treatment, and 23 were arrested when the so-called “Steel the Stall” clashed with anti-protesters following the march. Enthusiastic support By Trump.
Military groups on the far right have merged into Trump supporters and engaged in violence, including white nationalist pride boys, who called themselves “Western keyists.” Michael Flynn, a former national security adviser who apologized to Trump for lying to the FBI, told a crowd: “We decide the election. We are fighting a war all over America. ”
Violence also erupted in Olympia, the capital of Washington state. One person was shot in a clash between heavily armed groups, with Trump supporters and proud Boys facing counter-opponents, and three people were arrested.
Video footage It appeared to show that the shot was fired by a member of the Pride Boy and that the victim was a counter-protestor, although details remained unclear.
In Georgia, a separate military group called the Georgia Security Force III%, attended a far-right rally at the State House on Saturday. The armed group has helped organize recent convoys who have threatened local election officials at their home, falsely claiming Biden’s victory in Georgia was fraudulent.
Biden’s transition team has seen with increasing alarm the proportion of violent incidents that have erupted around Trump’s tough election claims. Louisiana’s Democratic Representative, Cedric Richmond, who has tapped Biden as the incoming director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, said he is worried about what to look forward to during the holidays.
“We are concerned about the violence,” he told Face the Nation on CBS News. “Where there is violence there is no opposition, it is breaking the law, so we are concerned about it.”
Asked about the majority of House Republicans who supported Trump’s futile lawsuit to prevent the election results from being certified, Richmond indicated that his resistance is more theatrical than real. “They are the ones who recognize Biden’s victory. This is a small part of the Republican Conference that makes the president happy to go out of town because he is afraid of his Twitter feed.
Al Gore showed the obvious nature of Trump’s stubborn refusal in an interview with CNN’s State the Union on Sunday. Exactly 20 years ago today, he acknowledged George W. Bush’s hard-fought 2000 presidential race: “This is America, we put the country before the party – we will be behind our new president together.”
Gore told CNN he hopes Monday’s Electoral College vote will begin to heal. He called the lawsuit “rejected by the Supreme Court” “ridiculous and vague,” and blamed Republicans who stuck with Trump in their “lost cause.”
“With the Electoral College votes in all electoral states tomorrow, I hope this will be the point at which some of the hanging people will leave ghosts,” Gore said. “There are more important things than bowing to the fear of demigods.”
