AP
Washington Hispanic:
The extraordinary republican effort to annul the presidential election was condemned on Sunday by numerous officials and former officials of the same political current who have warned that the attempt to sow doubts in the victory of Joe Biden and keep the president Donald Trump in office is undermining Americans’ confidence in democracy.
Trump has won the support of a dozen Republican senators and even 100 Republican representatives to challenge the Electoral College vote when Congress meets in joint session to ratify the victory of President-elect Joe Biden by 306 – 232.
Before the presidential inauguration of Biden on 20 of January, Trump has intensified its actions to prevent the traditional transfer of power, destroying the party.
Despite the accusations In the light of Trump that there was electoral fraud, state authorities have insisted that the elections went smoothly and there was no evidence of fraud or other irregularities that could change the outcome. The states have certified their results and described them as clear and legitimate. Of the more than 50 lawsuits presented by the president and his allies to challenge the results of the elections, almost all were rejected or withdrawn. The federal Supreme Court has also dealt a couple of setbacks for Trump.
In a call broadcast Sunday, Trump can be heard as he urges officials in Georgia to “find” him more votes.
“The elections 2020 have ended,” a bipartisan group from 10 Senators, including Republicans Susan Collins of Maine; Lisa Murkowski, from Alaska; Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Mitt Romney of Utah.
Senators wrote that continuing attempts to cast doubt on the election “contravenes the clearly stated will of the American people and it only serves to undermine the confidence of Americans in the election results already decided. ”
Maryland Governor, Republican Larry Hogan, said:“ Members of Congress plan to rejecting the certification of the presidential election constitutes a mockery of our system and who we are as Americans. ”
Former Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, said in a statement that “Biden’s victory is totally legitimate” and attempts to cast doubt on the elections “hit the foundations of our republic.”
Representative Liz Cheney, from Wyoming, the third-highest Republican in the lower house, warned in a memo to her colleagues that objections to the Electoral College results “set an exceptionally dangerous precedent.”
Other prominent former officials also censured current criticisms of the election results.
In an opinion piece in The Washington Post, the living 10 former defense secretary, half of whom were in the service of leaders Republicans, urged the Pentagon authorities to make the transition to the new government in a “total, cooperative and transparent manner.”
They also pointed out that the actions to involve the forces armed forces of the United States in the solution of electoral disputes “could put us in dangerous, illegal and unconstitutional territory.”