Well here is another nail in the coffin of the Trump Administration trying to overturn the Presidential Election with dubious FUD (Fear/Uncertainty/disinformation) in the use
of tactics, all of which have failed so far.
Today is the 'deadline' for the 'so-called' SAFE HARBOR rule which is an Electoral College deadline before voting of the Electoral College.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/08/safe-harbor-deadline-arrives-hurting-trumps-bid-overturn-election/6478954002/I quote below from link above:
Tuesday marked the "safe harbor" deadline. Federal law requires that Congress recognize the slates of electors chosen by states that have resolved legal fights,
recounts and other election disputes by this date.
end quote.
As to leaving office, it is not just TRUMP, it seems the many actual legislators are tossing a tantrum on this as well, not that it will do any good.
Trump himself sounds like once he has left for Thanksgiving for Florida, he won't go back to the White House or attend the Biden Swearing in.
Meanwhile, other antics below to also try to muddy the waters on Trump leaving office, futile and spiteful though they may be! ;(
So as seen below, 'lets get congress involved' in the foot dragging of transition issues as well! Such fun!
So, for the life of me, I can't see anything that can happen on this, from the Trump Administration yet, then to simply drag out the transition process to give the
Biden Administration a 'black eye' for having nothing in help in getting up to speed on the transition. So we have a pandemic, economic issues, and practicality
a constitutional crisis of a President of the United States saying the 'election' was rigged. So just toss them 3-4 months of cooperation away to get the next leadership
team up to speed ..is just too 'hard'
Indeed it is so bad, that it may take even more weeks to resolve if the 'supposed' actions are followed through on certifying the election in the House,etc.
Damn, when the USA decides to go FULL Banana Republic, we don't mess around with any kind of finesse! Such as link below spells out.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/07/politics/house-republicans-trump-biden/index.html My 'own' conclusion (dubious) is that the 'powers that be' in the Republican Party are so sure that they will NOT win (likely IMHO) any national elections from 2022
onward due to the changing youth and demographics and such with the nation. They are in 'full' hell with it mode, and just gonna burn things as they go out the door
in the next 2-4 years, in a 'hopeless' bit of spite. All of the above in no way seems to be helping the country in any manner, so it has to be politcal spite at the loss.
I mean it is a frigging 'lame-duck' session, all sorts of political cover to stimulate the economy with individual stimulus checks and aid to states, assuming the Republican
party 'still' wants states to lead fights on pandemics in this nature (states rights) without federal government mobilization, as the other option.
You either fund states to do stuff or your fund federal gov't to do stuff in national emergencies, or usually both, but not in the weird world of 2020 I guess.
Brad