President Donald Trump’s GOP critics are speaking out about his claims of voter fraud in the Nov. 3 election, claiming that the president so far as presented a feckless case. Always available for a negative quote in the mainstream press, 73-year-old Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Ut.) gave the press a mouthful about Trump’s attempts to challenge the election. “Having failed to make even a plausible case of widespread fraud or conspiracy before any court of law, the President has now resorted to overt pressure on state and local officials to subvert the will of the people and overturn the election,” Romney said. Trump’s been making his case for voting irregularities ranging from not permitting GOP observers to the rapid manner in which the election results changed after he was winning the election on Nov. 3. Trump’s legal consultants argue that election doesn’t turn around on a dime.
Since Romney had his dust ups with Trump in the 2016 presidential race, he gives the press all anti-Trump quotes they want on a wide variety of tops. Romney’s well liked by the media which enjoys quoting fellow Republicans that find Trump objectionable. “It is difficult to image a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American President,” Romney said, blasting Trump for questioning the election results. But if your look at what happened from election night on, things look very suspicious, despite having difficulty proving it. When everyone went to bed Nov. 3, Trump had substantial leads in all the battleground states, especially Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. By the time the morning of Nov. 4 rolled around, Trump had lost his lead, like all of the votes tabulated after Nov. 3 went to Biden. No one really knows what happened, certainly not Mitt.
One thing that confounds Trump’s thinking about election night is that fact that universal mail-in ballots made counting the vote a more difficult process, not only delaying the results but providing an endless supply of votes. Trump can’t fathom the fact that Democrats claim the lion’s share of votes after Nov. 3 were for Biden, quickly turning the election around for the 77-year-old former Vice President. Romney has zero empathy for Trump, nor does he question anything how the votes suddenly turned around in Biden’s favor. Trump and his 75-year-old personal attorney former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani have been arguing that Trump won by “total landslide,” even though Biden won once the votes were tallied. Trump’s legal team knows that something nefarious went on they just have no evidence. Courts don’t take kindly when facts don’t support legal claims.
Trump and Giuliani have argued forcefully that vote totals in key battleground states were riddled with fraud, despite showing courts no proof. While they have over 100 affidavits claiming some kind of voting irregularity, there’s still no proof that the vote totals were impacted enough to change the outcome. Vote totals “in all swing states should be overturned, and the legislatures should make sure that the electors are selected for Trump,” Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell said, giving no facts to substantiate her demand. Trump’s legal machinations are seen as an exercise in futility, since no court can respond to allegations without facts. Even Trump’s most avid supporters are moving on, accepting the inevitable that he’s a one-term president. Trump’s unconventional style never played well with the press and elected officials, voting Nov. 3 to keep him from a second term.
Voting for Biden was more about ending the Trump experiment of shaking up the establishment, especially when it had to do with global trade deals and U.S. military intervention. Trump’s bold economic program likely kept the economy out of recession until the Covid-19 crisis upended his prospects for reelection. Democrats used Covid-19 to play off voters’ fears, jaded with restrictions and the shutdowns that pushed the economy into another prolonged recession. Trump’s communication team, led by 32-year-old novice Hope Hicks, did a poor job of pushing back, letting Democrats define Trump as a failed president, especially when it came to managing Covid-19. In reality, Biden and his 56-year-old VP-elect Kamala Harris have no answer for Covid-10 other than telling folks to wear masks. When they take over Jan. 20, 2021, the Covid-19 crisis promises to get worse.
Trump lost the Nov. 3 election because Democrats and independents had a numerical registration advantage to Republicans. While Trump had high loyalty and enthusiasm, he couldn’t, in the end, find enough votes. When you look at the popular vote totals, Biden beat Trump by six millions votes. While only Electoral votes count, Biden still beat Trump 306 to 234, a bigger margin than he beat former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016. While Trump surrogates shout voter fraud, the real problem involved more voters buying Biden’s narrative that Trump mismanaged the Covid-19 crisis, turning enough independent voters away from Trump. “They have to be able to show that proof. I haven’t seen proof yet. Three are a lot of allegations out there. That’s why we have a court system,” said Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa, rejecting Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud.
