{"id":3809,"date":"2020-11-12T12:47:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3809"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:47:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:47:50","slug":"trumps-attempt-to-overturn-the-election-result-is-ramping-up-heres-what-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3809","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s attempt to overturn the election result is ramping up. Here\u2019s what comes next."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“President Trump is refusing to concede the election. Most Republican senators, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, won\u2019t yet acknowledge<\/a> that president-elect Joe Biden won. And Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday<\/a> there will be a \u201csmooth transition to a second Trump administration\u201d (though perhaps he was joking<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, you may be wondering … what\u2019s going to happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With GOP politicians\u2019 rhetoric all over the place, it\u2019s useful to focus on concrete matters. Two things will happen over the next five weeks that ordinarily would be formalities, but in a disputed election will be crucial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, states will certify their election results \u2014 December 8 is the deadline set by federal law, but most states have set earlier deadlines<\/a>. Second, once state results are certified, the Electoral College<\/a> will cast the votes that will officially choose the next president, on December 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both of these processes are currently on track to make Biden the next president. And despite all the sound and fury, nothing happening yet appears likely to get in the way of either process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That could change, however. The dangerous scenario would be if some combination of Republican state officials, Republican legislators, and Republican-appointed judges attempts to block the certification of results in key states Biden won, or to replace Biden electors with Trump electors \u2014 likely citing assertions that the election results were plagued by some type of fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But up to this point, Trump\u2019s lawsuits have had little success. Republican state officials involved in the counts have insisted they\u2019ve found no fraud<\/a>, and there are no solid plans among GOP state legislators to change the outcome. To assess whether Trump\u2019s ploy to overturn the election results is successful, keep an eye on whether any of these change in the coming weeks.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/11\/11\/21559082\/trump-dispute-election-fraud-electors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“President Trump is refusing to concede the election. Most Republican senators, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, won\u2019t yet acknowledge that president-elect Joe Biden won. And Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday there will be a \u201csmooth transition to a second Trump administration\u201d (though perhaps he was joking).<\/p>\n

So, you may be wondering … what\u2019s going to happen?<\/p>\n

With GOP politicians\u2019 rhetoric all over the place, it\u2019s useful to focus on concrete matters. Two things will happen over the next five weeks that ordinarily would be formalities, but in a disputed election will be crucial.<\/p>\n

First, states will certify their election results \u2014 December 8 is the deadline set by federal law, but most states have set earlier deadlines. Second, once state results are certified, the Electoral College will cast the votes that will officially choose the next president, on December 14.<\/p>\n

Both of these processes are currently on track to make Biden the next president. And despite all the sound and fury, nothing happening yet appears likely to get in the way of either process.<\/p>\n

That could change, however. The dangerous scenario would be if some combination of Republican state officials, Republican legislators, and Republican-appointed judges attempts to block the certification of results in key states Biden won, or to replace Biden electors with Trump electors \u2014 likely citing assertions that the election results were plagued by some type of fraud.<\/p>\n

But up to this point, Trump\u2019s lawsuits have had little success. Republican state officials involved in the counts have insisted they\u2019ve found no fraud, and there are no solid plans among GOP state legislators to change the outcome. To assess whether Trump\u2019s ploy to overturn the election results is successful, keep an eye on whether any of these change in the coming weeks.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[660,221,372,780,170],"class_list":["post-3809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-joe-biden","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}