President Donald Trump is not publicly showing any signs that he intends to wind down his efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election, despite facing several setbacks.
The president’s campaign has filed several lawsuits in states he lost, seeking to overturn the results as he has claimed there was widespread fraud that cost him his reelection bid.
Additionally, he has reportedly called elected officials in several key states that he lost to pressure them to send electors to the Electoral College to vote for him instead of President-elect Joe Biden.
During an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) compared Trump’s post-election efforts to the “Friday the 13th” slasher movies.
“These four states have already handled dozens and dozens of cases filed by the Trump campaign or by his supporters,” she said.
She continued, “They’ve been unsuccessful each and every time. But to me, this post-election process has been like a ‘Friday the 13th’ movie.'”
“And no matter how many times you shoot Jason, or you stab Jason, or you electrocute Jason, he just keeps on coming back at you over and over again, and he just won’t stay down. And that is what this feels like.”
She went on to claim the Trump campaign’s efforts are wasting states’ resources and are harming Americans’ confidence in the electoral system.
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On Wednesday, Trump took to Twitter to allege that Democrats “cheated” in the election and argue that the results should be overturned. He also tweeted the hashtag “overturn.”
As courts reject the Trump campaign’s lawsuits seeking to overturn the results of the election, the president’s options for altering the outcome are narrowing with Electoral College electors set to cast their votes on December 14.Â
Some Congressional Republicans have signaled that they would object to Congress certifying the vote. However, as The Hill reports, there have only been two attempts by lawmakers to stop the certification of the vote since 1887.
Neither attempt was successful in preventing Congress from certifying the results of the Electoral College’s vote.
