With President Trump running out of options to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election his team is getting desperate. Lawsuits brought by his team have been dismissed again and again by state and local judges in key swing states.
Trump’s team has been backed into a corner and are forced to start thinking outside of the box. Now, a recently revealed plan by Stephen Miller has been presented in which “alternative” electors could intervene in order to keep other legal avenues open.
While Democratic electors in Pennsylvania and Georgia cast their states’ electoral votes for Joe Biden on Monday, slates of Republican electors in those states cast votes for President Trump just in case legal challenges succeed.
The Pennsylvania GOP said in a press release that the Trump campaign asked the Republican electors to do this in order to preserve any potential rights to legal challenges that could overturn Monday’s vote. The Trump campaign and other Republicans have claimed that elections in states including Pennsylvania and Georgia ran afoul of state laws, compromising the ballot counts.
“We took this procedural vote to preserve any legal claims that may be presented going forward,” Trump campaign Pennsylvania chair Bernie Comfort said in a statement. “This was in no way an effort to usurp or contest the will of the Pennsylvania voters.”
This may bring the Trump team a glimmer of hope but the plan is still a longshot and isn’t likely to provide the sort of surefire electoral victory that Trump would need to remain in the White House.
