A growing anti-democratic streak
Analysis by Gregory Krieg, CNN
Updated 6:25 AM ET, Sun January 3, 2021
... the push to cast doubt over the election result is now escalating beyond earlier bids by ambitious Republicans to curry favor with Trump by idly urging on his would-be power grab ...
... Notably, none of the officials who signed the Saturday statement .. have suggested that the election fraud that so concerns them might have also affected their own races ...
... the stunt in the works ... fits in with a wider, burgeoning attempt to further constrain voting rights in the future ...
"This stunt won't change the fact that President-elect Biden will be sworn in on January 20th," Gwin said, reiterating Biden and the transition's earlier position. "And these baseless claims have already been examined and dismissed by Trump's own Attorney General, dozens of courts, and election officials from both parties" ...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/03/politics/trump-republicans-electoral-college-new-congress-democracy/index.html