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Trump challenges cement Biden triumph
Glen Johnson at Axios
https://www.axios.com/trump-election-challenges-loss-biden-fb42c9df-485d-4494-aeb2-6b2acadeb32a.html
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President Trump's frantic post-election challenges are having the opposite effect of what he intended: He's documenting his demise through a series of court fights and recounts showing Joe Biden's victory to be all the more obvious and unassailable.
Why it matters: The presidents push to overturn the election results is dispelling the cloud of corruption he alleged by forcing states to create a verified and legally binding accounting of his election loss.
"Each loss further cements Biden's win," says election law expert Richard Hasen.
"History shows that any leader who constructs a major myth, that is later shown to be false, will eventually fall," says Harvard science historian and "Merchants of Doubt" author Naomi Oreskes. "The risk is that he takes his country down with him."
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Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)With showboating the likes of rudy and company today. Other than his most rabid base who would believe all that
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)dchill
(38,324 posts)Blue Owl
(49,934 posts)And each failed challenge is another layer of cement poured in, drying, and forming a nice weighted base, before they take little Donny on a long vacation to the lake of oblivion...