The Electoral College Will Pull Through for Biden, but the Damage Has Been Done
There’s no telling how successful the next power-hungry incumbent will be in taking advantage of Trump’s groundwork
Donald Trump and his allies have spent the past six weeks hell-bent on ignoring reality, but electors from the 50 states and the District of Columbia are set to reaffirm once again on Monday that Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States.
Six weeks after the 2020 general election, democracy has kept chugging on unencumbered. The procedural move marks the end to any chance Trump had of pursuing a legal recourse to overturn the results of the election. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a lawsuit that baselessly claimed voter fraud in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan. A previous attempt to get GOP-controlled state legislatures to refuse to seat Democratic electors and instead appoint Trump loyalists also failed.
Once the Electoral College votes are cast, the results will go on to Congress to be counted and officially declare a winner. And though some Republican lawmakers are likely to raise objections to the votes during the joint session on January 6 in an attempt to prevent Biden from becoming president, they won’t be able to…
