Many of Trump and Giuliani's maneuvers seem so desperate and outlandish that they are hard to take seriously. A long-shot strategyIt still seems unlikely that Republican state legislators would simply ignore hundreds of thousands of votes cast for Biden and nominate electors loyal to Trump. And the Trump effort is laying down political poison that will linger long after he has left the White House. Both he and Trump attorney Jenna Ellis lectured reporters for dismissing affidavits from voters claiming fraud, which have been collected by the Trump campaign as fact. An Arizona state judge threw out the state Republican Party's lawsuit seeking a broader audit of votes cast on Election Day.

Source: The Nation November 20, 2020 05:37 UTC