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While President Donald Trump is exhausing every avenue to win the election, Joe Biden is projected as the winner. The recount of Georgia votes did not change the outcome as Replubicans had hoped. Courtesy photos
Just when does a candidate face the realization of defeat in an election?
Not just in a local race for political office or for a congressional, but also in a Senate race at the state or federal level.
Things have become a precarious sort for members of the Republican party on the national level. In what appears to be a decisive defeat of President Donald J. Trump, in a bid for a second term as the President of the United States. President Trump is trying to assert voter fraud, the lack of accessibility of vote counters, the validity of absentee ballots and provisional ballots, in particularly of the battleground states.
President Trump’s legal team has been waging an uphill and losing battle in the legal system in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and other states, trying to delay the inevitable fact of a Joe Biden victory.
Just on Sunday, a Pennsylvania judge dismissed a lawsuit lodged from the Trump campaign that sought to dismiss millions of mail-in ballots from being a part of the tallying process.
Judge Matthew Brann ruled that the suit, was “without merit” on the claims of the allegation of irregularities.
Judge Brann stated that his “court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations.” Similar rulings have been handed down several times since November 3, handing the legal team led by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani crushing defeats.
With that ruling in place, it will allow the state (Pennsylvania) to certify the results this week, that will pave the way for a Biden victory.
President Trump has refused to concede until his legal challenges have been exhausted. This lack of admission of a defeat, puts any notion of a smooth and orderly transition of power from one president to the next.
Things have begun to unravel for the Trump legal team, with the dismissal of Sidney Powell on Sunday evening, after numerous outrageous and unsupported claims of voter fraud. Even accusing Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp of a crime on television. Powell has been unwilling to deliver the evidence that supposedly the lawyer has. Former New Jersey Republican Governor and a Trump confidant, Chris Christie called the claim “as outrageous conduct” of Powell.
Though President-Elect Biden has already started his transition activities, in preparation of a January 20, 2021 inauguration day, President Trump has not made access easily available for the next president.
Whether President Trump cooperates with the incoming President-Elect or not, come January 20, 2021 at 12 p.m., a Trump presidency will end and a Biden presidency begins.
As currently projected by various media outlets, a Biden victory is obvious, defeating Trump 306-232 in the United States Electoral College, which determines the candidate who becomes President. The count of votes for Biden is far above the needed 270 electoral college votes needed to become President.
In Georgia, Trump was determined to have been defeated after a by-hand recount confirmed a Biden victory in that state. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign has petitioned the Michigan electoral board to delay in certifying the results for two weeks.
American voters are voting in a state contest for a national position. However, the electoral college voters, typically, are voting for the will of the citizens of each state.
But, when should the admission of defeat be accepted by a campaign?