Poll: 70 percent of Republicans believe the election is unfair • Various investigations have revealed nothing about forgeries • Biden: "The president's behavior does not help his legacy
US President Donald Trump // Photo: API
Outgoing President Trump continues to refuse to acknowledge his election loss, insisting that the election results have been falsified, even though there is currently no evidence of this.
Republican campaign attorneys last night filed a petition in a Michigan court demanding that the state prevent the state from signing election results.
The lawsuit includes alleged allegations of disorder, particularly in Wayne County, a Democratic stronghold that includes the city of Detroit.
Similar petitions have been rejected in other countries, and legal experts believe the legal front's chances of success are slim to nil.
The outgoing president could perhaps be encouraged by the fact that Georgia's Secretary of State, Brad Reppensperger, has officially announced that his country will hold a new manual count of votes.
However, Biden leads Georgia by more than 14,000 votes, with repeated counts changing results by only a few hundred votes.
divided opinions
The outgoing president's claims are partially supported by the American public.
Earlier this week a Politico poll found that 70 percent of Republicans believe the election was unfair.
A sharp increase from 35 percent before the election.
Among those who doubt the fairness of the election, 78 percent believe that voting by mail led to widespread forgery and 72 percent believe that the polls were sabotaged.
But a new Reuters poll released on Tuesday found that at this point, 79 percent of Americans already believe Biden has won, while 15 percent believe they have not been defeated and only 3 percent claim Trump has won.
Not only did almost all Democrats agree that Biden won, but about 60 percent of Republicans agreed with that assumption.
Eighty-three percent of Democrats and 59 percent of Republicans trust local electoral authorities to "do their job faithfully," while 72 percent of Americans believe the loser should recognize the results.
Not only did almost all Democrats agree that Biden won, but about 60 percent of Republicans agreed with that assumption.
83 percent of Democrats and 59 percent of Republicans trust local electoral authorities to "do their job faithfully," while 72 percent of Americans believe the loser should recognize the results.
No proof
At the same time, the American media began to examine Trump's claims, and their investigations so far have yielded nothing.
The New York Times spoke with election commission representatives across the United States - Democrats and Republicans alike - and all agreed that there was no shred of evidence that fakes or irregularities affected the results.
"There's a tremendous human capacity to invent the wrong things about election campaigns," said Frank LeHrose, a Republican who serves as Ohio's secretary of state.
"Conspiracy theories and rumors are raging. For some reason, elections yield such mythology."
The office of Scott Schwab, Kansas' Republican secretary of state, said the state "has not experienced any widespread and systemic issues of forgery, threat to voters, irregularities or other problems."
Trump himself went out last night for the first public event since last week, when he attended a memorial service at Arlington Military Cemetery in honor of Veterans Day last night in the US. The outgoing president led by 17 percent, with the outgoing president arguing that the poll may have served as "illegal voter repression" in a country whose gap eventually stood at about 6 tenths of a percent.
Trump got some good news last night, however, when it was announced that he was the winner in the state of Alaska and that Republican senator there, Dan Sullivan, would continue for another term.
Meanwhile, in the camp of the elected president continue to try and prepare for the entrance to the White House, despite the lack of cooperation from the outgoing administration.
"We have already started overlapping, and we are deep in preparations," Biden said on Tuesday.
As for the unwillingness of Trump and Republicans to recognize the results, the president-elect declared that "honestly, it's embarrassing."
"I think it does not help President Trump's legacy," he added.
And while Republicans are on their own, leaders from around the world have already called to congratulate the president-elect.
Biden spoke on Tuesday with, among others, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.