Thursday, November 5, 2020
Trump will be president if election result goes to court, says lawyer Dershowitz
"Well, I think it's more likely that Biden will win the votes, the electoral votes necessary, but if it goes to the court, Trump has to be a favorite in the courts because he appointed so many of the judges at all three levels of our system," said Dershowitz.
Trump made an unsubstantiated claim on Monday night of fraud in the election process. He wanted the Supreme Court to halt voting even though the high court does not hear direct challenges and reviews cases that have moved up from the lower courts.
Trump vs. Biden – the saddest, most outrageous moment of the president's 2020 campaign
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-biden-2020-campaign-judith-miller
Trump declined the opportunity to toot his own political horn. Rather, he falsely declared an election victory that he had not yet achieved and vowed to petition the Supreme Court to demand a halt to the counting of ballots — ostensibly to prevent “fraud” in late-counted mail-in ballots. This was the latest twist of an evidence-free narrative that the president has echoed in tweets for weeks.
There have been many “sad” moments in the campaign, but none more pathetic and outrageous than the president’s effort to delegitimize some of the more than 150 million votes cast by 67% of eligible voters.
There is an obvious contradiction between the president’s fraudulent
claim of victory and his demand to throw out ballots that might award
the victory he claims to Biden. Despite his bravado and exaggerated
assertions of triumph in state races that state officials have yet to
declare, Trump’s appearance smacked of desperation and of fear that he
might actually lose to Biden.
Trump allies Rick Santorum and Chris Christie lead Republicans criticizing the president for falsely declaring victory while other conservatives call him 'deeply irresponsible'
Several high-profile supporters of Donald Trump
including Chris Christie and Rick Santorum condemned the president
early on Wednesday morning after he falsely declared victory before all
of the votes in key battleground states have been counted.
Chris Christie slams Trump for declaring 2020 presidential election victory
https://nypost.com/2020/11/04/chris-christie-slams-trump-for-declaring-2020-election-win/
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, an ally of President Trump, blasted the commander-in-chief’s comments about claiming victory and threatening to ask the Supreme Court to halt more vote-counting.
Christie said there is no evidence to back Trump’s claim that Democrats are trying to fraudulently steal the election away from him.
“I talk tonight not as a former governor, but as a former US attorney. There’s just no basis to make that argument tonight. There just isn’t,” Christie told ABC News.
Trump sues in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia; asks for Wisconsin recount
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-sues-in-pennsylvania-michigan-asks-for-wisconsin-recount/
US President Donald Trump’s campaign filed lawsuits Wednesday in Pennsylvania and Michigan, laying the groundwork for contesting the outcome in undecided battlegrounds that could determine whether he gets another four years in the White House. The new filings, joining existing Republican legal challenges in Pennsylvania and Nevada, demand better access for campaign observers to locations where ballots are being processed and counted, the campaign said. However, at one Michigan location in question The Associated Press observed poll watchers from both sides monitoring on Wednesday.
US election results: Trump sues as path to victory over Biden narrows
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54818992
Donald Trump and Joe Biden each claim to be ahead in the US presidential election, even as the final outcome hangs on a razor's edge and both sides ramp up for legal action.
The Trump campaign is challenging vote counts in the key states of Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
The BBC projects Mr Biden won Michigan. US media forecast he took Wisconsin. No result has emerged in Pennsylvania.
Winning all three of these Rust Belt states would hand Mr Biden victory.
Democratic candidate Mr Biden stopped short of declaring he had won, but said he was confident he was on course to defeat Republican Mr Trump.
Overall turnout in Tuesday's election was projected to be the highest in 120 years at 66.9%, found the US Election Project.
Mr
Biden had the support of 70.5 million voters, the most won by any
presidential candidate ever. Mr Trump has pulled in 67.2 million votes,
four million more than he gained in 2016.
Even If Joe Biden Wins, He Will Govern in Donald Trump's America
https://time.com/5907546/america-divided-2020-election/
Even if he has lost, a President who trampled the rule of law for four years was on pace to collect millions more votes this time than last. And though they braced for a bloodbath, the congressional Republicans who enabled him instead notched unexpected gains. The GOP appeared likely to retain the majority in the Senate and cut into the Democratic House majority, defying the polls and fundraising deficits. Republicans held onto states such as Florida, South Carolina, Ohio and Iowa that Democrats had hoped to flip. They cut into Democrats’ margins with nonwhite voters, made gains with Latinos in South Florida and the Rio Grande Valley, and racked up huge turnout among non-college-educated white people, while halting what many conservatives feared was an inexorable slide in the suburbs.
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Trump campaign demands a halt to ballot counting in Pennsylvania
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/290568
The Trump campaign announced that it was filing a suit to stop ballot counting in Pennsylvania after filing a similar motion in Wisconsin.
"This is the most important election of our lifetime, and President Trump made clear our path forward last night: ensure the integrity of this election for the good of the nation. Bad things are happening in Pennsylvania. Democrats are scheming to disenfranchise and dilute Republican votes. President Trump and his team are fighting to put a stop to it," Justin Clark, Trump 2020 Deputy Campaign Manager, said in a statement.
Official Vote Count Continues Nationwide as Donald Trump Falsely Claims a Win From The White House
https://time.com/5906949/donald-trump-vote-count/
Trump’s claims are both flawed and dangerous, multiple election experts say. Because Democrats are more likely than Republicans to cast a ballot by mail this year, many of the remaining ballots that have yet to be counted in states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin—which didn’t get an early start on processing absentee ballots—are likely to skew blue.
US Election 2020: Tighter than expected vote may take days to resolve
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54791113
Mr Trump hosted an election night gathering inside the White House with about 100 guests.
In a speech at about 02:30 local time (07:30 GMT) he said: "We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election."
He went on to allege "major fraud on our nation" without providing evidence, adding: "We'll be going to the US Supreme Court."
"We want all voting to stop," the president said, apparently meaning that he wants to block the counting of postal ballots, which can be legally accepted by some state election boards after Tuesday's election.
Millions of ballots have still to be counted and there is no evidence of fraud.