Daily US Times: In the days following the US presidential election, Donald Trump’s baseless allegations of rampant fraud in the process of vote counting have been incorporated into a hasty, slapdash legal strategy that is failing and so far has yielded limited results.
As the Republican President loses his grip on the presidency, his campaign is using federal ans state courts to attempt to “stop the count,” as Trump himself has said, and question the validity of the votes that have already been counted. But vote counting is several key battleground states has continued despite the campaign’s efforts and no persuasive evidence of fraud has surfaced.
Attorney Stephen Kaufman, an election law expert, said: “The Trump legal strategy seems to be a strategy based on wishful thinking.”
“There does not seem to be any legal basis for the challenges that are being brought by the campaign,” he said Yahoo News on Friday.
Experts say, this strategy seems to be less about preserving the integrity of the election process, which is what the incumbent President’s campaign says it’s trying to do, and more about fostering the false impression with the public that the election is fraudulent, and laying the groundwork to ask for relief from the federal courts, which the administration has assiduously stacked with Republican judges.
President Trump is trying to hold the grip using the courts but failing as the voting continued.
Alexander Keyssar, an expert on the Electoral College and a history and social policy professor at Harvard Kennedy School, said: “From what I’ve seen so far, in terms of the charges of fraud or irregularities, there just doesn’t seem to be anything very substantial,” A told Yahoo News. “If [Trump] continues to say, and I think he will, that his loss was fraudulent, I think it will de-legitimize [Joe] Biden in the minds of some people out there.”
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