The president has failed to halt the certification of the vote in all six states in which he tried to challenge the results, falsely claiming they were the work of widespread fraud.
President Trump and his allies have tried to undo the results of the 2020 election with falsehoods about voting security, lawsuits and direct pressure on Republican legislators and officials — an effort critics have denounced as an unprecedented subversion of democracy.
One of Trump’s immediate goals has been to delay or derail formal certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s win in key battleground states, either by persuading judges to block the process or compelling officials not to certify results, based on false claims that the election was tainted by massive voter fraud.
That effort has failed. All six battleground states in which Trump was challenging the results — Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Wisconsin — have formally certified Biden’s win. Continue reading.