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President Donald Trump’s legal team has been fighting tirelessly to prove that widespread election fraud damaged the president’s reelection bid. However, it seems unlikely that they will succeed in court.
On Monday, Judge Matthew Brann threw out the campaign’s case in Pennsylvania. That case, spearheaded by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, sought to throw out the state’s election results due to allegations of widespread election fraud.
In turn, Trump’s team argued, the state of Pennsylvania should have its Electors chosen by its legislature. However, Judge Brann didn’t view things that way and called the legal team’s arguments a “Frankenstein’s monster” of legal theory. These cutting words were followed by the dismissal of the case, which the team has promised to appeal.
However, as the weeks bear on and more and more states certify their election results, the president is rapidly running out of plausible paths to the White House. Despite Trump’s insistence on voter fraud, things look grim for the president. Now, some members of his own party have begun to call on him to concede and agree to a transfer of power to Joe Biden.
Maryland’s governor, Larry Hogan, stated that he hoped that Trump would concede shortly in order to give the appearance of decorum. He said that Trump’s extended contest over the election outcome “makes us look like a banana republic”.
This drew a rebuke from Trump on Twitter, who claimed Hogan is a “Republican in name only,” saying that Hogan will “never make the grade”.
Hogan, tersely, responded “stop golfing and concede.”
Two runoff elections in Georgia will decide the fate of the Senate in January. The runoffs are for two Senate seats, one of which Republicans will need to hold to keep a slim 50-48 majority over the opposition party.
Should Democrats flip both seats, it’s quite likely that the Vice President would be required to issue a tiebreaking vote in the Senate. Should that Vice President be Kamala Harris, this means that a 50-50 split would actually be a Democratic majority in the Senate.
This is the next major focus for the Republican party as they seek to have some check on Joe Biden’s agenda before he is likely to be sworn in on January 20. Some have even suggested that President Trump could be damaging Republicans’ chances in Georgia by creating the feeling among Republican voters that their votes simply won’t matter. As such, some of the pressure on Trump to concede makes sense from a holistic point of view for the GOP.
