GOP Electors Keep President Trump's Legal Battle Alive as Democrats Cast 'Official' Vote for Biden

Michael Haynes : Dec 15, 2020
LifeSiteNews.com

Nuances in the constitutional process of selecting the US president leave Biden's alleged victory still in doubt.

[LifeSiteNews.com] Mainstream media outlets touted a victory for Joe Biden [Monday] as a majority of the nation's presidential electors, nominated by the 50 states' governors, cast their votes for Biden after a hotly contested, controversial, and drawn out presidential election. However, in several battleground states whose governors appointed Democrat electors, an "alternate" slate of Republican electors have simultaneously cast their electoral votes for President Donald Trump. (Screengrab image)

The New York Times hailed what is being called the official vote, saying Biden was thus "formally securing the presidency in the manner set out in the Constitution, some six weeks after Election Day." CNN called the event "a crushing blow to President Trump's controversial and unprecedented attempts to block Biden's victory in the Electoral College by filing longshot lawsuits and pressuring lawmakers in battleground states to overturn millions of legal votes."

However, nuances in the constitutional process of selecting the US president leave Biden's alleged victory still in doubt. Republican electors in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, and Arizona—states whose Democrat electors "officially" voted for Biden—all cast votes for the president, thus enabling him to "preserve any legal claims ... going forward." The move is to ensure that the legal cases undertaken by the Trump team can continue through the rest of December and into January... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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