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At Trump’s campaign headquarters on the morning of November 6, the bitter reality began to show itself, after Pennsylvania suddenly “turned green.”
When senior campaign officials met with lawyers to discuss President Donald Trump’s legal options at a time when his rival Joe Biden was closing in on 270 electoral votes, others in court Virginia’s office wondered when his candidate will lose. or if it will.
President Trump, who has 214 electoral votes, has refused to accept defeat and is determined to run an unprecedented legal campaign in a presidential election season since 2000.
President Trump at the White House in December 2019. Image: AP.
But many of his campaign agents in the office have begun to accept reality.
“Unless you find a big electoral fraud or something shocking, it’s over. Most people know it. It’s just that some people take longer to accept,” said a senior campaign official. “There are a lot of people sitting and staring at their desks.”
“I see we lost,” added a former Trump aide. On election night and the following days, he thought the president would win. The former adviser said that, like Trump, he believes that changes to voting rules amid a pandemic have had a negative impact on Trump’s reelection bid. But now he believes that the president does not have a viable path to victory.
“It was an uphill battle,” the man said.
Trump’s allies worry that Trump’s legacy will suffer if he delves too deeply into the legal battle, risking the country plunging into a political crisis without the results it desires. A handful of people close to the president, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, aide Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie strongly urged Trump not to budge.
The gloomy atmosphere over the Trump campaign intensified on the night of November 5, after the president opened a press conference claiming he had won and continued to expand allegations of large-scale voter fraud. Then Joe Biden took the lead in Pennsylvania and Georgia early in the morning of November 6, making Trump’s door to the election even narrower.
Even the president’s allies, such as former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, criticized Trump’s statement and demanded that he provide evidence. Christie also argued that the Trump campaign lacked a clear legal strategy and was misdirected, with top Republican representatives and attorneys appearing well on television and press conferences.
On the afternoon of November 6, Bill Stepien, Trump’s campaign manager, and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner appointed Bossie, the former aide to the president, to lead the legal effort to reconsider censorship. votes in several major battlefield states. But when Bossie and other Trump aides rushed to Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Arizona this week, some of the president’s close allies argued that the protracted legal battle would go nowhere.
Meanwhile, an adviser said the judicial war is less likely to turn Trump’s tide, but that it could lay the groundwork for the president’s final “confession,” though it is very different from his predecessors. Get lost.
“He would say ‘it was stolen’ and then he would return to Florida, continuing to be the most influential Republican in the country,” said the adviser.
Trump’s reluctance to admit defeat has caused some advisers to worry that a transition of power will take place before the new president takes office in January. They are also concerned that he will be the “pathetic” president, incapable of making remarkable decisions in the remaining days in the White House if he is too engrossed in the election results and litigation. One adviser suggested that Trump may refuse to meet with Biden and not attend his successor’s inauguration, but is less likely to interfere with the transition.
“I hope the president can pay less attention to the legal battle to enter the stimulus negotiations,” said a senior administration official. “We have the opportunity to get the job done and we shouldn’t be overwhelmed by the noise Trump and his lawyers are making.”
How the US vote count is counted Video: Vox.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump Jr., Trump’s eldest son, criticized Republican officials for not expressing support for his father when Trump raised allegations of voter fraud. Minutes later, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Senator Tom Cotton and others voiced their support for Trump. When it appeared on Fox News on Nov. 5, Senator Lindsey Graham said that he would contribute $ 500,000 to the president’s legal fund to pursue vote counting lawsuits.
Trump’s team was very upset that Fox News determined that Biden won in Arizona while other media outlets had not “named” him. Supporters of the president have vehemently criticized the conservative news agency since Tuesday night, when they refused to withdraw their remarks.
“It was very bad in terms of public opinion and reversed many comments,” said one consultant. “We have two battles to fight: the vote count and the court of opinion.”
The Trump election campaign has repeatedly signaled that they are ready for a protracted court battle, even as Biden crosses the 270 electoral vote threshold. In a call with major donors, officials said they needed to raise tens of millions of dollars to pay for upcoming legal fees.
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