Election challenge not over yet: Trump, even as Georgia Court rejects his latest appeal

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Washington: His fight to challenge the results of the November 3 presidential polls is “not over,” even as the formal certification of the election results in favour of President-elect Joe Biden is scheduled on Monday, said US President Donald Trump on Sunday.

He said that even though the Supreme Court rejected a case brought by Texas against several swing states over their elections, he still has other challenges in play. Trump has claimed that the US elections held in November was rigged. The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a bid from Texas’ Attorney General and backed by President Trump to block the ballots of millions of voters in battleground states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that went in favour of Biden.

Trump speaking to the media and his friends in an interview “No, it’s not over. We keep going. And we’re going to continue to go forward”. When the media asked about the dismissal of the lawsuit filed by Texas and 17 others states seeking to overthrow the election results in four battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. He won Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia while noting that he has an ongoing case in Wisconsin, Trump claimed.

Trump in a tweet on Sunday with all caps said “MOST CORRUPT ELECTION IN US HISTORY”. In another tweet he said that “How do states and politicians confirm an election where corruption and irregularities are documented throughout? A Swing State hustle. Trump, a Republican, lost the November 3 presidential elections to Joe Biden, who is now the president-elect. During the interview, he ruled that his team did not get enough time in challenging the election results.

He also said “They give us very little time. But we caught them, as you know, as fraudulent, dropping ballots, doing so many things, nobody can even believe it”. Trump alleged that votes were cast in the name of dead people and that tens of thousands of ballots were illegally submitted. State officials and media have said that those allegations are unsubstantiated and there has been no evidence of mass level election fraud.

Responding to a question, Trump refused to comment on the inauguration of Biden. Trump has so far refused to concede the elections, even as he has directed officials to follow the transition process. When asked about Monday’s Electoral College vote, which is when the country officially elects the president, Trump recognized that he is under a time crunch.

Trump has lost his latest legal challenge seeking to overturn Georgia’s election results, with the state Supreme Court’s rejection late Saturday of a case from Trump’s campaign and Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer. On Friday the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit backed by Trump seeking to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory, a move that ended a desperate attempt to get legal issues rejected by state and federal judges before the nation’s highest court.

The case was subsequently appealed directly to the state Supreme Court, asking justices to consider the case before Monday’s meeting of the Electoral College. In a brief order, justices wrote that “petitioners have not shown that this is one of those extremely rare cases that would invoke our original jurisdiction”. It’s the latest legal setback in the president’s efforts to overturn the election results.

Even as lawsuits filed by Trump and his allies have been rejected around the country, the president has continued to make repeated baseless claims of widespread fraud.

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