Trump = LOSER
Last night in Rolling Stone;
In response to:
No Matter What Lawsuits He May File, President Trump Is an Epic Loser
David S. Cohen
Tue, November 17, 2020, 5:44 PM EST
Donald Trump is having a terrible November. First, he loses the presidential election as an incumbent in historic fashion. Then, in his much-hyped litigation explosion to show the world that he really won on November 3rd, he has lost in court repeatedly. There’s just no two ways about it: Donald Trump will leave office as an epic loser.
By now, unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past two weeks, you know that Trump lost the presidential election to Joe Biden. Biden received 306 electoral college votes to Trump’s 232. This is the same amount Trump won by in 2016, which Trump and his advisers touted then as a “landslide.”
]What makes Biden’s “landslide” more impressive is that, unlike Trump, Biden won the popular vote. Whereas Trump lost the nationwide vote tally by 2.8 million votes in 2016, Biden is on track to win the popular vote by 7 or 8 million. (He is currently ahead by 5.7 million, with millions of ballots left to be counted, mostly in Biden-friendly California and New York.) Biden is currently just under 51 percent of the total vote, leading Trump by 3.7 percent. (Both of these numbers should get bigger.) In 2016, Trump received just 46.1 percent of the total vote (losing to Hillary Clinton by 2.1 percent).
Most everyone knows this (even Trump himself apparently). What has been harder to keep track of is just how much losing Trump has been doing in his election-related litigation. Part of the reason is because court cases in multiple states are esoteric and hard to keep track of.
But part of the reason is that there’s just so much losing. By one election lawyer’s tally, Trump is 1-25 in election litigation so far. (By the time you read this, his record will probably be even worse.)
The losses have come in every conceivable way. When the Trump campaign has claimed election fraud, judges have routinely asked for actual evidence. In court, as opposed to on Twitter, litigants who make allegations have to back them up with proof. The Trump campaign has had none, and judges have taken notice. They have lectured Trump’s lawyers on the rules of evidence and the basics of hearsay. They have sifted through affidavits and found the same thing that every state administrator told The New York Times when it contacted each one — there has been no fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Other losses have come because conservative lawyers have quietly asked courts to withdraw their lawsuits. Monday morning, for instance, lawyers asked federal courts in Michigan and Wisconsin to dismiss their claims, leaving no federal court cases challenging the results in those states.
No Matter What Lawsuits He May File, President Trump Is an Epic Loser
David S. Cohen
Tue, November 17, 2020, 5:44 PM EST
Donald Trump is having a terrible November. First, he loses the presidential election as an incumbent in historic fashion. Then, in his much-hyped litigation explosion to show the world that he really won on November 3rd, he has lost in court repeatedly. There’s just no two ways about it: Donald Trump will leave office as an epic loser.
By now, unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past two weeks, you know that Trump lost the presidential election to Joe Biden. Biden received 306 electoral college votes to Trump’s 232. This is the same amount Trump won by in 2016, which Trump and his advisers touted then as a “landslide.”
]What makes Biden’s “landslide” more impressive is that, unlike Trump, Biden won the popular vote. Whereas Trump lost the nationwide vote tally by 2.8 million votes in 2016, Biden is on track to win the popular vote by 7 or 8 million. (He is currently ahead by 5.7 million, with millions of ballots left to be counted, mostly in Biden-friendly California and New York.) Biden is currently just under 51 percent of the total vote, leading Trump by 3.7 percent. (Both of these numbers should get bigger.) In 2016, Trump received just 46.1 percent of the total vote (losing to Hillary Clinton by 2.1 percent).
Most everyone knows this (even Trump himself apparently). What has been harder to keep track of is just how much losing Trump has been doing in his election-related litigation. Part of the reason is because court cases in multiple states are esoteric and hard to keep track of.
But part of the reason is that there’s just so much losing. By one election lawyer’s tally, Trump is 1-25 in election litigation so far. (By the time you read this, his record will probably be even worse.)
The losses have come in every conceivable way. When the Trump campaign has claimed election fraud, judges have routinely asked for actual evidence. In court, as opposed to on Twitter, litigants who make allegations have to back them up with proof. The Trump campaign has had none, and judges have taken notice. They have lectured Trump’s lawyers on the rules of evidence and the basics of hearsay. They have sifted through affidavits and found the same thing that every state administrator told The New York Times when it contacted each one — there has been no fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Other losses have come because conservative lawyers have quietly asked courts to withdraw their lawsuits. Monday morning, for instance, lawyers asked federal courts in Michigan and Wisconsin to dismiss their claims, leaving no federal court cases challenging the results in those states.
(continued in my comment below)