Trump has doubled his 2020 election threat

President Donald Trump on Wednesday refused to commit to a peaceful transition to the presidency as Republicans across the country are taking specific steps that threaten to weaken the integrity of the election, especially in major battlefield states. Trump’s comments about the transition have been the latest case in which he has tried to sow doubts about the legitimacy of the election. But beyond Trump’s rhetoric, his campaign and state and local Republicans are moving to make it harder for voters to vote, states are harder to count votes, and more likely to be prosecuted in the courts – with a special focus on postal voting, which is on the rise this year as a coronavirus pandemic and. These efforts, along with repeated claims that Trump will not hold elections, will threaten to eat away at people’s confidence in the outcome, whether Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden has been named the winner. The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg was left in the midst of a contentious struggle to fill the Supreme Court seat, in a situation where Trump is selecting the person to decide his electoral fate. “I have spent 38 years as a Republican lawyer going to the constituencies in search of evidence of fraud. There are isolated cases, for sure, but there is nothing like widespread fraud that would somehow invalidate the election or jeopardize a peaceful transfer of power.” Ben Ginsberg on behalf of George W. Bush, he told CNN’s John King on Thursday. “So it’s different that the president of the United States goes to one of the pillars of democracy without proving that you have to make that case.” # 2020 Election #CNN #Trump.

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