After an unorthodox election and a nail biting race, Joe Biden was projected to win the presidency. 

Unwilling to gracefully accept defeat, although advised by close friends and family, President Donald Trump claimed that several shenanigans had occurred during the election. 

Backed up by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and GOP-led states, Trump started legal battles in namely Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. 

According to predictions from The Associated Press, President-elect Biden surpassed the magic number of 270 electoral college votes on Nov. 7. But of these votes, President Trump publicly declared that a substantial number of them were fraudulent. 

His main accusations were towards the swing states that were previously leaning red but had swung drastically to blue as mail-in votes began to be counted towards the latter end of the ballot counting process.

In Pennsylvania, before the state was called, Trump had a 700,000 vote lead over Biden. But over the next few days, this lead was lost, and Biden managed to achieve a lead of his own. This was mainly due to mail-in ballots, which were counted last, to favor Biden at a ratio of 78-22.

After losing such a big lead in such a short amount of time, Trump contested the legitimacy of the ballots cast that eventually tipped the votes towards Biden. He was skeptical that his substantial lead of 700,000 votes could be erased in the short span of just two days and that most of these ballots that had made the change were ones submitted by mail.

Filing several lawsuits targeting these possibly unfair ballots, Trump tested the nation’s patience once more as they awaited a winner. 

“They (Democrats) are trying to steal the election,” were the words in one of the president’s latest tweets. Not only did he attack ballot integrity, but his initial tweet was followed by a barrage of others including one where he claimed the election as a whole was “a big fraud.”

΅President Trump is 100% within his rights to look into allegations,” added Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, in support of Trump’s legal battles.

After McConnell spoke out, other members of the Republican party, especially ones under McConnell, publicized their support for the President’s request for a thorough examination of the votes. 

Although the legal processes are being carried out, all of this just seems to be a delay of the inevitable. Most sources, including GOP election officials, were confident that no voter and electoral fraud occurred. 

To make matters worse, the president’s own family, including his wife Melania Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, were reportedly urging him to concede. 

So as it stands, led by Trump, the Republicans are throwing in a last-ditch effort in an attempt to prevent the election of Biden. But the odds against them are enormous, and nothing short of a miracle would be necessary for the reelection of the 45th president of the United States.

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