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York Dispatch editorial board
... Despite falling to Democratic challenger Joe Biden by some 80,000 votes in Pennsylvania and more than 150,000 in Michigan, the Republican incumbent is doing everything in his thankfully dwindling power to overturn the will of voters in those states and in several others he lost en route to national defeat on Nov. 3.
If the results were a little closer or Trumps lawyers a little sharper, their efforts might have resulted in something more immediately significant than an embarrassing assault on political norms. Still, this unprecedented attack on free and fair elections is instructive. It demonstrates the work that needs to be done to ensure election results are secured by something more substantive than political conventions and faith in the lawmakers who are supposed to uphold them.
Because despite the veritable clown show that is the presidents legal team, led by personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, their failures should not obscure what theyve attempted and, in ways short of their ultimate goal, what theyve achieved.
They may fall well short of securing an undeserved second term for a president that lost the popular vote by more than 6 million, but theyve cemented the fallacy on the right that the election was somehow tainted, undermining attempts by incoming Biden to build bipartisan goodwill and fanning conspiratorial flames that will continue to singe public faith in the democratic process of voting ...
https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/opinion/editorials/2020/11/22/editorial-vote-reversal-unsuccessful-but-ominous/6382639002/
struggle4progress
(118,341 posts)The Dispatch Editorial Board
... President Donald Trump's personal attorney claimed, with a straight face, that a nationwide conspiracy was afoot and argued for the disenfranchisement of millions of Pennsylvanians.
And he did so without a shred of evidence. Not one.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann was rightly incredulous at the former New York City mayor's sophistry.
Can you tell me how this result could possibly be justified? Brann said after pointing out Guiliani's argument could disenfranchise about 6.8 million voters in Pennsylvania ...
https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/opinion/editorials/2020/11/19/editorial-thumbs-down-rudy/6339898002/
Cha
(297,655 posts)Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)yep. Damage Trump has caused this country will last for years
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)And that has been the plan from the start of his first presidential run.
Chainfire
(17,640 posts)The groundwork for the "fraudulent election" was laid over a year ago. Tell the lie, make it a whopper, repeat it daily, spread it through dozens of "sources", damn anyone who challenges it, and it becomes the truth. A play right out of the Hitler/Gobbles handbook.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)It is a disaster waiting to happen. The electoral college has too many holes in it.