White House attorneys have asked the courts of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona to block the grading certification process waiting for check if any fraud reports presented by the Trump campaign are grounded. But so far no significant evidence of irregularity emerged, beyond a few isolated cases: the attempt, therefore, is above all to prevent the result of the popular vote in the states lost by Trump from being formalized within the terms of the law, a move with potentially serious, destabilizing consequences.
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So far the Republicans have backed the president with few exceptions, but now the prolonged blockade of the democratic transition process towards the new presidency, the lack of consistency of the legal arguments of the White House and the institutional risks that are emerging are also inducing big parties in the party to correct the course. Lindsay Graham, John Thune and Charles Grassley, three of the most influential Conservative senators, yesterday said Biden should have access to the “classified” intelligence briefings that are handed over to Trump: a way of saying that the White House should stop stonewalling and allow the “president-elect” to have access to the transition mechanisms.
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An important weight in the Republican house was Karl Rove who illustrated on Wall Street Journal the stringent math that leads him to conclude that “the result of the presidential elections will not be reversed”. Rove, George Bush’s election victory strategist, is a conservative close to the White House (he is close to Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump’s husband) but is also a pragmatist who keeps ideology aside in his lucid analyzes and is also very influential as a commentator on Fox, the right-wing TV network. His reasoning is simple and clear: overturning the results of the polls is a titanic undertaking.
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In America in the last half century it has only happened three times in electoral competitions in New Hampshire, Washington State and Minnesota. Then the differences of the ballot, that is, the votes to be changed to reverse the outcome were minimal: 355, 261 and 215 votes respectively. This time to win, Trump should be able to uncover tens of thousands of bogus votes within days: Biden, in fact, is ahead, compared to Trump, of almost 50 thousand votes in Pennsylvania, 36 thousand in Nevada, 20 thousand in Wisconsin, 14 thousand in Georgia, 11 thousand in Arizona and even 146 thousand in Michigan .
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According to Rove «Trump’s efforts to demonstrate systematic fraud are unlikely allow him to pass even one of the disputed states from Biden’s column to his own. Of course it won’t move enough to reverse the election outcome “. Conclusion: for Trump “closing the voting season is a hard but necessary step to restore some unity and political balance”.
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Those who know him claim that Rove he would not have published such an article without Kushner’s consent. After all, anonymous White House sources say, even Trump would be aware that the legal battle is lost, but he would have said that it must be carried out as a theater, to keep his electorate in a state of mobilization in view of his eventual re-nomination.
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Donald Trump after the vote
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