President Donald Trump's refusal to commit to a peaceful presidential transition Wednesday comes as Republicans across the country are taking concrete steps that threaten to undermine the integrity of the election, particularly in key battleground states.
Trump's comments about the transition were only the latest instance where he's actively sought to sow doubt into the legitimacy of the election. But beyond Trump's rhetoric, his campaign and Republicans at the state and local level are moving to make it more difficult for voters to cast a ballot, more difficult for states to count votes and more likely that tallies will be challenged in the courts — with a particular focus on mail-in voting, which is being dramatically scaled up this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Those efforts, along with Trump's repeated baseless claims that the election will be rigged, threaten to eat away at the public's confidence in the outcome, regardless of whether Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden is declared the winner. They come amid a contentious fight over filling the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in a situation where Trump could be picking the person who decides his electoral fate.
"I spent 38 years as a Republican lawyer going into precincts looking for evidence of fraud. There are, to be sure, isolated cases, but nothing like the widespread fraud that would somehow invalidate an election or cause anyone to doubt the peaceful transfer of power," Ben Ginsberg, who helped litigate the 2000 election on George W. Bush's behalf, told CNN's John King on Thursday. "So what's different about this is a president of the United States going right at one of the pillars of the democracy without the evidence that you have got to have to make that case."
#2020Election #CNN #Trump
6 years ago I woulda thought this was the onion
@James Cullimore yeah, cherry picking direct speech on video by trump saying he might go with violent chaos if he loses.
Welcome to Trump’s/GOP America.
@Nonya Bizness cherry picking what trump said to add a violent spin, which further emboldens morons like you who think he is some sort of dictator.
can’t wait to watch you cry again.
@Nonya Bizness did you consider the context? Or did you hear what he said and immediately became enraged? Healthy reasonable doubt in both sides makes a sane, logical person. I don’t agree with all of trump’s policies, and sometimes his personality is overkill, but I cannot deny the good things he’s done. And he’s infinitely better than Biden.
Do your own, unbiased research. Listen to some speeches in their entirety. If you still feel the same afterwards, then I completely understand.
@Mark G. MORE LIKE WELCOME TO HELL
Whether you are right, left, bottom, or diagonal. When the leader blatantly won’t give up his seat in a loss sounds a bit dictatorish to me
He congratulated Putin on his sham election.
This has been planned with Putin- it is what he did.
Yes it seems to be planned how scary
If he, Vlad, Moscow Mitch, and the now non-credible partisan SCOTUS rig the election we become 1925 ITALY. If so welcome to the New World Order Republic.
One party, one boss, and a nation of subjects, not citizens.
Hillary paid a Russian spy to come up with the fake Trump dossier upon which the sham Russia investigation was based. That’s an actual fact.
He can get drug out of office too if he’s not re-elected.
*Dragged
VOTE HIM OUT!!
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Wolf, I think you need to be a little bit more assertive when interviewing Republicans senators and members of congress
the power of CHRIST compells you
“We heard a sound, but it wasn’t very strong.” LOL. Dude is so crazy.
@Polar Patriot
wow all the way from Russia.
@Nashanta Stanley
a good tasering will shift the SOB.
@Hawkzblade Thats your reply every time, either that or you’re racist! You people are a joke and will find out soon enough.
@Wilfredo Molina
collectively know as Basetards.
@Polar Patriot
Every time, and where is that, and arent you the racist following top racist.
find out what you’e a trump bot loser or just one of his suckers.
Trumpet is a clown he like a man that doesn’t ask for directions when he is lost
Worse than the everyday dumb selfish man… he’s a sick narcissist.
Unfortunately, You will become a clown in Communism System
And then there is creepy uncle Biden who doesn’t know where he is
@Emeli Under the democrats or the current administration? Because at the moment the current administration are talking like an authoritarian regime.
‘we heard a sound’ that it the sound of Democracy
feels like i’m living in a bad reality TV show
no this is reality, you were just living in denial about what your country really is about, fascism
@Wretch Gunk k
I’m afraid there’s a circle in hell waiting for Mark Meadows along with all the other lying sycophants…
Like Hillary, James Comey, et al?
He will be voted OUT. We won’t have to see his whole fam damily lined up on stage anymore like a bunch of parking meters.
STAGE,,,,,,,should be gallows for treason.
Just call security and drag him out 🤷🏾♀️
Leave a trail of KFC chicken legs to outside and once out throw a net over him.
Ohhh, look who is scared of losing and going to jail 😁
Going to jail for what, exactly? Be specific.
Yea he’s a coward
@jim genovese hiding tax statements, collusion with Russia, reacting too slowly at protecting America from Covid-19, being a draft dodger ETC…….
The American system is operating like a Gang of LAWLESS Thugs…
This is were they got the idea for the joke “How can you tell if a politician is lying? His lips are moving.”
He thinks its like his golf game if he loses someone cheated.
@Melinda Johnson I WHOULDN’T be surprised
Agolf Twittler
Lol, i like what im seeing from trump he’s still toying with democrats for free advertisements. Kekw
@Yamato Tomato That you are right about
His whole life. Daddy used to make sure donny won whatever scat came out of which end.
45 heard those protestors chant “Vote him out,” loud and clear! His feelings got hurt.
IF TRUMP HAD ANY FEELINGS..ALL HE FEELS IS RETRIBUTION..TO ANYONE THAT SAYS ANYTHING HE DOES NOT LIKE…BY TOMORROW WE WILL SEE IT…
Butthurt crybaby VOTE HIM OUT
He was like i don’t have to take this am going home
Straight to the bunker
Everybody heard “vote hime out”! The dude lies to avoid humiliation, low esteem and defeat as usual. “Vote him out” now can now be Googled to show how unpopular this liar has become.
He’s president until January, so count EVERY VOTE, even if it takes til January 3rd
That’s not how elections are supposed to work, cupcake. If Trump made this statement, or one of his supporters, you would lose your mind.
Why, do democrats believe, if you find more ballots lying around, they will be for the Trojan Horse, Biden. Sounds like more Democrat Bull to me.
Also, Inauguration day is on the 20th.
@jim genovese He literally refused to accept a peaceful transition of power lmao. How you can pretend to still have the moral high ground is baffling.