When Pennsylvania flips for 77-year-old former Vice President Joe Biden sometime today, all will be lost for 74-year-old President Donald Trump’s bid for a second term. No court will touch Trump recounting arguments with 10-foot poll, largely because of Covid-19, where state election officials knew they would need extra time to count mail-in ballots, the most collected at any time in U.S. history. Trump’s argument that counting must be stopped Nov. 3, Election Day, would disenfranchise millions of voters whose ballots were left uncounted. Whatever happened in 2000 with Bush v. Gore with “hanging chads,” there’s no comparison today because state election officials anticipated taking longer time to count the votes in 2020. There’s simply no legal argument Trump can make without showing proof that Democrat election officials committed outright fraud with ballots.
Since there’s no proof of fraud, all Trump can do know is wait until Pennsylvania flips, as expected, in the next few hours, dashing his hopes for a second term. No court, especially the Supreme Court, wants to get into the messy job of counting ballots or determining which ballots are valid and which are not. With the polls showing Biden way ahead, Trump knew he had to thread a needle, no margin for any error. Certainly losing Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin and Michigan ended Trump’s chances of a second term. With over 160 million casting votes, about 100 million by mail, many of the new voters leaned Democrat. What’s astonishing is how competitive a race Trump ran, bouncing back from Covid-19 two weeks ago to make a go of it. Trump campaigned his heart out, sometimes five rallies a day, but, in the end, the sheer volume of new voters gave Biden the advantage.
Exit poll analysis has already shown that Trump made inroads into the black and Lation communities, attesting to his message on borders and law and order. Whether Democrats admit it or not, the country’s has spoken loudly that it don’t want violent protesting and anarchy in American streets, steering large numbers of voters away from the Democrat Party. Biden and his running mate 56-year-old Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) have not condemned violent street protests backed by groups like Black Lives Matter, fueling unrest around the country. Trump’s strong backing of U.S. law enforcement won him the support of practically every police department in the country, leaving Biden and Harris only making excuses. When all is said an done, Trump was the victim of Covid-19, something Democrats exploited as the number one issue driving votes to Biden and Harris.
Ousting Trump from office accomplishes a power shift but it offers no guarantee about that anything more can be done to end the worst infectious disease crisis since the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic. Biden and Harris laid all the blame on Trump for all U.S. cases and deaths, something so preposterous, so outrageous, so unreasonable but it worked with voters. Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force did everything possible short of shutting down the country for a second time. If Trump didn’t always wear a mask himself, he never opposed mask requirements advocated by public health officials. Yet Biden spent much of his time wearing masks and staying away from crowds, showing his conformity with public health guidelines. But as far as a new plan for Covid-19, there isn’t one other than a possible national mask mandate. Getting rid of Trump was a mission accomplished.
Trump lawyers can’t save Trump when Pennsylvania flips sometime today, putting Biden over the 270 magic number of Electoral votes. “He wanted the vote counting stopped because he was losing the election,” said Bob Bauer, Biden advisor. “He is now trying to claw his way back from defeat. This is the end of the road for these claims for Donald Trump,” Bauer, said, showing the highly partisan nature to the race. Instead of impugning Trump, Bauer would be better off saying that all bets are off once Pennsylvania flips, handing the election to Joe. Then all the TV networks can declare Biden president-elect, starting the transition process. It’s beyond ironic that Covid-19 wrecked Trump’s chances of reelection and gave Biden an unprecedented advantage with maiil-in voting. Like using Amazon, it’s a whole lot easier for people to vote when they can drop in the mail.
Trump performed beyond anyone’s wildest expectations, making the race competitive for Biden and Harris. If there’s any message to the 2020 election, it’s that Democrats do not have a national mandate to implement a liberal agenda, including radical steps at climate change, national health care, open borders, abortion-on-demand, or, more importantly, loading the economy up with burdensome regulations. Unlike his liberal backers, Biden’s said he wants to be president for everyone, not just his left leaning base. Once Pennsylvania delivers the goods for Biden, the 2020 race unofficially ends because it’s mathematically impossible for Trump to win. Forcing costly recounts won’t change the vote enough to change the results. “You need a legal violation to go to court,” said former White House Counsel Donald McGahn, not seeing how Trump can escape the inevitable.
