Trump Meets His Top Election Advisors Who Are Forcefully Supporting His Voter-Fraud Claims, Report Says
Donald Trump is leaving no stone unturned to make sure the presidential transition isn't smooth for the President-elect Joe Biden. As part of his tactics to challenge the results of the election, which he claims the Democrats stole from him, the president, on Wednesday, met his top election advisors.
Trump, reportedly, realizes that his chances for turning the election results around are slim and would need to rely more on his top election advisors. Moreover, Trump continues to refuse to acknowledge the win by President-elect Joe Biden in the presidential race to the White House, which looked daunting for him from the beginning.
He met with his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who serves as senior White House advisor, and campaign manager Bill Stepien along with senior campaign advisor Jason Miller to discuss the next step forward for the current Republican holder of the office, NBC News reported. In a similar meeting, on Tuesday, Trump and his aides discussed the legal challenges launched by his campaign in a bid to render ballots cast for Biden invalid in six battleground states.
The latest meeting came as NBC News revealed that Trump’s advisors have accepted that the president will never come to terms to accept that he lost to Biden, despite ballots being certified in the coming weeks across the nation. A top aide told the outlet that they aren't expecting Trump to concede, noting that he will attribute his resistance to widespread voters' fraud, and lack of trust in the results.
Aside from that, advisors have even accepted that Trump's chances of winning all the lawsuits and changing the U.S. election result aren't strong, according to The Washington Post. On top of that, sources told the outlet that some of Trump's aides had forcefully supported his voter fraud allegations, but were privately skeptical of the lawsuit's chances of success.
This list of president's aides includes White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, the informal advisor Corey Lewandowski, and the Republican National Committee's chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel. Both Democrat, as well as Republican officials, admits that there is no evidence of voter fraud. Biden called Trump's refusal to accept defeat as an embarrassment, on Tuesday, during a press conference.
Biden garnered 77.4 million votes in the popular vote tally, while Trump received 72.26 million ballots cast, marking a margin of 50.8 percent to 47.4 percent, with 96 percent of the expected national vote already being counted. Note that the popular vote does not determine who wins the White House; the Electoral College vote does.