A day after networks and news agencies declared his defeat in the presidential election, Donald Trump has continued to rage against supposed fraud and election meddling in swing states that he claims cost him his victory – quoting former house speaker Newt Gingrich and an expert who cited the US’s “history of election problems”.
“We believe these people are thieves," read the tweet citing Mr Gingrich. "The big city machines are corrupt. This was a stolen election. Best pollster in Britain wrote this morning that this clearly was a stolen election, that it’s impossible to imagine that Biden outran Obama in some of these states.
“Where it mattered, they stole what they had to steal."
The Trump campaign has so far provided no definitive evidence of any voting irregularities that could have flipped states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, where Mr Biden’s margin has grown as late-arriving votes were tallied.
Mr Trump also threaded together an extended quote from attorney and academic Jonathan Turley, in which the legal analyst says that allegations of impropriety at vote-counting facilities and in ballot authentication, particularly in Philadelphia and Detroit.
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Mr Turley, however, only yesterday wrote that the Trump campaign’s legal effort to challenge the results “has not been impressive”.
While the networks called the election for Mr Biden on Saturday morning and exuberant celebrations across the US, Mr Trump was on a golf course, having almost entirely stayed out of public view since a widely condemned speech from the White House on Thursday evening.
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Mr Trump’s legal team, fronted by former New York mayor Rudi Giuliani, have meanwhile been announcing a steady stream of legal challenges to tallies in various cities and states that went for Mr Biden, levelling assorted allegations including outright vote-tampering and improper discarding of Trump ballots.
However, their efforts have been met with ridicule from the other side, especially after the bizarre decision to hold a press conference outside a landscape gardening business in Philadelphia. The legal assault is also increasingly being openly dismissed among conservatives and Republicans who see no plausible basis on which to challenge or overturn the results.
Meanwhile, reports from the White House indicate that some in Trump’s inner circle are discussing how to go frame a concession, and how to elicit one from a president known for his disgust for “losers”.
Floorguy1 on November 8th, 2020 at 14:30 UTC »
Sources are reporting that Trump advisors are trying to figure out a way he can feel “more validated” and “less bad” about losing.
I just can’t even anymore at this point.
theSikx on November 8th, 2020 at 14:10 UTC »
One of the drawbacks of lying at every opportunity is nobody (with brain cells) believes a word you say anymore. Can we start mass mailing 'the boy who cried wolf' books to trumpo?
BadModsterFartsy on November 8th, 2020 at 14:07 UTC »
You would think the Republicans, who all things considered made out pretty well this election, would let this guy know he's trying to call all of their victories into question by attacking the election