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Chris Christie and other GOP leaders are criticizing Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results - Vox.com

Chris Christie and other GOP leaders are criticizing Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results - Vox.com

Chris Christie and other GOP leaders are criticizing Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results - Vox.com
Nov 22, 2020 2 mins, 21 secs

President Donald Trump battled members of his own party this weekend, as his critics — and even some allies — called upon him to accept the results of the presidential election.

Following his loss of a major lawsuit seeking to overturn Pennsylvania’s results on Saturday, several prominent Republican leaders gave interviews on Sunday suggesting that it was time for Trump to consider conceding.

Larry Hogan, who has been critical of Trump in the past, said on CNN’s State of the Union that Trump’s behavior has been embarrassing.

“We were the most respected country with respect to elections,” Hogan said.

Larry Hogan, a Republican, says he is "embarrassed that more people in the party aren't speaking up" regarding President Trumps' refusal to concede https://t.co/jw5Aybp5N5 #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/wFNFsPP7bJ.

“We need all of our leaders to come out and say, ‘The election is over,’” he said.

But there is no legal basis for election results to be overturned.

Sunday, Trump took to Twitter to lash out at Hogan, who earned Trump’s ire earlier this year when he criticized the president’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, for his remarks on CNN.

At the moment, Trump seems disinclined to stop these attacks — but both Hogan and Bolton encouraged fellow Republicans to ignore them, and to join them in calling on Trump to accept the election results.

Lamar Alexander (R-LA), for instance, said it still only “looks like [Biden] has a very good chance” of being the next president.

And congressional leaders have largely been silent; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, for instance, said recently that he believes that questions over the election will resolve themselves thanks to “the process” and “our system.”.

That defeat was the most recent of several Trump has faced in his attempts to legally challenge the results of the presidential election.

Pat Toomey, a Republican, said on Saturday that “President Trump has exhausted all plausible legal options to challenge the result of the presidential race in Pennsylvania,” and congratulated Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory.

“Yes,” Chris Christie tells @GStephanopoulos when asked if it’s time for President Trump to stop challenging the 2020 election results, adding that the president’s legal team has been a “national embarrassment.” https://t.co/9HKDetYpa5 pic.twitter.com/zuGivUyqYo.

“Everyone ought to just relax and let it play out in the legal way,” Cramer said, misleadingly adding that Trump is “just exercising his legal options.”?

Cramer is correct that all Americans have the option of bringing lawsuits — but filing baseless ones like Trump’s is something not smiled upon by the court system.

And efforts like Cramer’s to legitimize Trump’s actions ignore the reality that the clock is ticking on any scheme, legitimate or otherwise, to alter the election’s results.

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