Vote reversal unsuccessful, but ominous
York Dispatch editorial board
... Despite falling to Democratic challenger Joe Biden by some 80,000 votes in Pennsylvania and more than 150,000 in Michigan, the Republican incumbent is doing everything in his thankfully dwindling power to overturn the will of voters in those states — and in several others he lost en route to national defeat on Nov. 3.
If the results were a little closer or Trump’s lawyers a little sharper, their efforts might have resulted in something more immediately significant than an embarrassing assault on political norms. Still, this unprecedented attack on free and fair elections is instructive. It demonstrates the work that needs to be done to ensure election results are secured by something more substantive than political conventions and faith in the lawmakers who are supposed to uphold them.
Because despite the veritable clown show that is the president’s legal team, led by personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, their failures should not obscure what they’ve attempted — and, in ways short of their ultimate goal, what they’ve achieved.
They may fall well short of securing an undeserved second term for a president that lost the popular vote by more than 6 million, but they’ve cemented the fallacy on the right that the election was somehow tainted, undermining attempts by incoming Biden to build bipartisan goodwill and fanning conspiratorial flames that will continue to singe public faith in the democratic process of voting ...
https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/opinion/editorials/2020/11/22/editorial-vote-reversal-unsuccessful-but-ominous/6382639002/
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