Republicans in Arizona and Georgia are nonetheless attempting to delegitimize the election.

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Republicans in Arizona and Georgia are nonetheless attempting to delegitimize the election.

Efforts to query the legitimacy of the 2020 election in two swing states, almost seven months after voting concluded, illustrate former President D


Efforts to query the legitimacy of the 2020 election in two swing states, almost seven months after voting concluded, illustrate former President Donald J. Trump’s continued maintain over the Republican Get together and the endurance of his false election claims.

Georgia has already counted its presidential vote thrice, with the identical end result: Mr. Trump misplaced. However a choose dominated final week {that a} group of voters have to be allowed to view copies of all 147,000 absentee ballots solid within the state’s largest county.

The plaintiffs, led by a identified conspiracy theorist, may have no entry to the precise ballots, and the evaluate is not going to change the end result. However the ruling was a victory for a watchdog group that claims it’s on the lookout for cases of poll fraud, parroting Mr. Trump’s election lies.

On the similar time, a Republican-led recount of greater than two million ballots solid in Maricopa County, Ariz., resumed on Monday regardless of bipartisan denunciations of the hassle as a political sham.

Despite the fact that Mr. Trump is just not immediately concerned within the continued examinations of votes in Arizona and Georgia, his supporters’ widespread refusal to just accept the truth of Mr. Biden’s victory has led Republicans to seek out new and creative methods to delegitimize the 2020 outcomes.



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