‘Whether there’s fraud or not’: Trump allies map out post-election fights: Days before Election Day, the fight over the results is already underway.
In Alaska, the Justice Department is suing to block certification of the Senate race if the Republican candidate loses narrowly. In California, federal prosecutors issued subpoenas to force election officials to testify about alleged noncitizens on their voter rolls. In a North Texas county, the local GOP party is suing to block certification of election results unless every ballot in the state is counted by hand.
That is likely just the beginning.
Republicans close to the White House, Democratic lawyers and senior Democratic congressional aides told MS NOW they expect the Trump administration and its allies to contest results and try to block certification in key counties and states after Tuesday.
Some Republicans, including some GOP lawmakers, have floated a last resort if that fails: refuse to seat Democrats who win.
President Trump, who wages some version of this fight nearly every election cycle, has primed his base for it. The difference this time is that he has the full force of the federal government behind him, with loyalists in key posts — including his former personal lawyer, who now leads the Justice Department.
Democrats are “great at cheating,” President Trump said at a recent campaign stop in Iowa — a false claim he repeats at nearly every rally. “They cheat like hell. And if they didn’t cheat, they could never win.”
Two people close to the White House, including a former Trump administration official, told MS NOW that the Justice Department is certain to file more lawsuits challenging results in other states, on top of its pending suits in California and Alaska. One of them said to expect Republicans to contest the outcome in states such as Michigan, where Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has become a target of Trump’s racist and Islamophobic attacks.
“Georgia will ultimately be in the crosshairs; Michigan always, especially if El-Sayed wins by less than 1%, and Wayne County is the last county… https://www.ms.now/news/midterm-election-trump-legal-fight-certification