, even as Donald Trump continues to evoke unsubstantiated fraud and to insist he defeated the Democrat.
Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who served as an advisor during the Trump transition, said on ABC that the president’s spate of legal challenges was a “national embarrassment.”Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, another Republican, said on CNN that Trump was making the country look like a “banana republic,” while ex-national security advisor John Bolton said on the same program that the president’s actions amounted to “throwing rocks through windows.
Pennsylvania was a must-win state this year and went solidly into Biden’s column after backing Trump in 2016.Judge Matthew Brann wrote that Trump’s team had presented “strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations” in their complaints about mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania. The Electoral College is due to formally vote on December 14, with certifications to take place beforehand.States’ certification of results of their popular votes is usually routine following a US presidential election.
“President Trump should accept the outcome of the election and facilitate the presidential transition process,” Toomey said in a statement.The judgment in Pennsylvania came hours after Republicans also requested a delay in certification in Michigan, another battleground, in a letter that repeated allegations of irregularities in the state which Biden won by 155,000 votes.
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