Donald Trump and his team are not giving up.
They just don't want to acknowledge the election defeat.
Now they are setting out to attack the democratic process.
The still-US President
Donald Trump
refuses to recognize his election defeat against the Democrat
Joe Biden
.
After unsuccessful lawsuits against the count in several states, attention turned to the
"Electoral College"
.
Trump's personal attorney
Rudy Giuliani
has worked out a plan - which he apparently doesn't believe in himself.
Washington - In the
United States
, the new President of the United States is not elected directly, but through electors.
The
Democrat Joe Biden won
306 of them
.
This makes him the winner of the
2020 US election
.
Just not for
Donald Trump
and his loyal followers.
He is now trying to use the
"Electoral College" *
, the electoral body, for his own purposes.
Because: The results are not yet official.
First a complicated system is set in motion.
That's exactly where Trump wants to throw a stick into the thread.
To be
US President
for
another four years
.
His approach is very unlikely in practice, but at least possible in theory.
Reasons for this include:
Amendment 12 of
the US Constitution.
US election: Trump team are not running out of ideas
The
Trump team is
not
running out of ideas
.
Their strategy of proving an allegedly bogus election in several states has failed.
So now a change of plan: the
electoral committee
comes into focus.
On December 14, the electorate will meet to cast their votes for
Joe Biden *
or
Donald Trump
.
Should electors suddenly be different
vote or some states fail to certify their electorate, a tiny window could open for Trump.
He obviously wants to slip through that.
The desired situation must be such that neither
Joe Biden
nor
Donald Trump have
at least
270 voters
.
Then the
US election
could
go to Congress, says US constitutional lawyer
Kirk Junker
in the
Handelsblatt
.
And the
US House of Representatives
votes on who is the next
US President
.
Trump's game with democracy: the US constitution could still make him the US election winner
This is
where
Amendment 12 of
the
US Constitution
comes into play.
"However, if the vote goes to the House of Representatives after the twelfth amendment, every state receives one vote, so there is no proportional vote," says
Kirk Junker
in the
Handelsblatt
.
Donald Trump's
hope
is then that he could win like this.
Because the still-US president assumes that there are more republican states than democratic ones.
For that, however,
a miracle
would have to
happen
for
Donald Trump *
on December 14 in the
electoral committee
.
The two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers refusing to approve the election results in Wayne County is a blatant attempt to undermine the will of the voters.
pic.twitter.com/2m8eN6Cfpy
- Governor Gretchen Whitmer (@GovWhitmer) November 18, 2020
The
Süddeutsche Zeitung
also starts with this and another thought
: the certification of the
electorate
.
If the deadline by December 8th is not met, in theory the
state parliaments of
the federal states could independently
select
their
electors
.
And
send
a
Republican
instead of a
Democrat,
for example
.
That too: more than unlikely.
After the 2020 US election: Donald Trump harms democracy - the goal is the electoral committee
Nevertheless:
According to the US newspapers
Washington Post, New York Times
and the TV broadcaster
CNN,
the
fact that
Trump is
even playing with such a thought harms
American democracy.
"The problem is, he's speaking for the President of the United States," Republican attorney
Benjamin Ginsberg
told
CNN
.
The
Washington Post
writes that “the prospect that a presidential election could be stolen from within” represents a “historical level of risk” according to legal experts. As the
Washington Post
further argues
,
Trump would have to leave
the Republicans
in at least three of the six
swing states *
convince them to discard their own voters' votes.
A plan that goes back to Trump's personal lawyer:
Rudy Giuliani
.
This recently had a bizarre appearance at a press conference.
In the state of
Pennsylvania
, the Trump team is currently trying to file a lawsuit not to confirm the election result there.
Instead, as in the theory of the
SZ
,
the state parliament should
appoint its electorate.
The explosive for Trump: In the local parliaments, the
Republicans * have
the majority.
The
German press agency
reports
.
He is pursuing the plan that they will
vote
for him,
Donald Trump
on December 14th
instead of
Joe Biden
.
Against the wishes of their own constituents.
Something similar is going on in
Michigan
.
The still-US president has
invited
Republican representatives from parliament to the
White House
, reports the
Washington Post
, among others
.
Trump's lawyer Giuliani: Joe Biden's victory should be called into question - Whitmer opposes it
That something like this would happen is
unlikely
even for
Giuliani
.
That's what it says behind closed Republican doors.
But based on this information, Giuliani seems to believe that he can delay the results enough
to cast doubt on
Biden's
victory.
A recent poll by
Monmouth University
says that 70 percent of
Republicans
believe
Joe Biden
won by cheating.
Although there is no evidence of
alleged election manipulation
.
The democratic *
Governor of Michigan
,
Gretchen Whitmer
- that was almost like a conspiracy victim - meanwhile said: "I implore the people to put the country on the party and to do the will of the people - to respect the law and for to ensure that the will of the people is reflected in our electorate and not to play with this fundamental part of our democracy.
“
(Aka) * Mercury.
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