Two weeks have passed since the end of the American presidential election, incumbent Donald Trump does not want to admit defeat. Various steps he tried to change the results of the American presidential election that won Joe Biden. He even fired officials who were not in line with him.
Quoted from Reuters news agency, Friday, November 20, 2020, Donald Trump has prepared a new strategy. This time, he wants to count on Republican lawmakers representing the state where Joe Biden won. Several people from Trump's legal team confirmed this.
"It's a more specific approach where you want legislators to be involved," said one member of Trump's legal team.
Donald Trump's strategy began by creating enough fanfare to raise suspicion about the outcome of the American presidential election. Their bet is that if more and more citizens have doubts about the election results, they will urge members of the legislative body to step in. Put simply, Donald Trump wants to create a situation in which the legislature will find it difficult to resist citizen pressure.
If the members of parliament are persuaded to step in, then the next thing they need to do is replace the electoral voters. Donald Trump's camp wants to take advantage of a phrase in the American Constitution that electoral voters are elected "on the basis of their future being handled by members of the legislature." The highest authority is considered to reside in the legislature.
Electoral voters, it is worth knowing, are those who promise to support the candidate who wins the popular vote in their state. They will meet on December 14, at the Electoral College, to formally elect the next American President.
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Donald Trump's legal team interpretation, if the electoral voters can be replaced by members of the legislative body, then the election results can be changed. The risk, means annulling all popular votes that have been collected. Apart from that, he also needs to demonstrate the massive and structured fraud in the American presidential election which he has so far failed.
As is well known, the number of electoral votes a presidential candidate can get depends on how many popular votes he wins. For example, because Joe Biden won the popular vote in Michigan, electoral voters there must elect Joe Biden as the winner.
According to the latest Reuters survey, Donald Trump has already completed a step. As many as 50 percent of Republicans believe Donald Trump won the American presidential election. Not just winning, but winning legitimately.
At the White House, Donald Trump has reportedly begun gathering Republicans to discuss the strategy. Donald Trump started by gathering Republican lawmakers from Michigan where he lost to Joe Biden.
Both, according to a Reuters report, will first listen to Donald Trump's proposal. Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, who was also invited by Donald Trump, said earlier this week that there would be no new Electoral Elector appointments in Michigan.
If you look at Donald Trump's efforts lately, it will be Michigan and Pennsylvania Republicans that he will gather first. In the two states, the legal step is mental. If you manage to change the results there, Joe Biden Donald Trump's position will change from 306-232 to 270-268.
Outside the White House, Republicans in Michigan and Pennsylvania are already reading the direction of Donald Trump's plans. They don't want to get involved, worried that the Republican image is at stake.
Joe Biden is amazed that Donald Trump hasn't given up. He doubts Donald Trump will get support because his move is very risky. On the other hand, he called the steps Trump took was proof that he was America's President at least responsible.
"All the Republicans I spoke to, including the governor, called this move surprising. What Donald Trump is doing is sending a bad message about America," said Joe Biden.
Political pundits are optimistic that Donald Trump's move will not work. However, they remain vigilant because anything can happen. "This is a dangerous step in ignoring people's choices or delegitimizing Joe Biden based on baseless claims about fraud in the American presidential election," said Rick Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California.