Trump continues to lie, and his allies continue to try to disenfranchise American voters

Tuesday, as the “safe harbor” deadline cementing Joe Biden’s win as president came and went, finalizing the slates of electors chosen by states, Donald Trump dug himself deeper into a delusional hole.

“We’re going to have to see who the next administration is,” he said while discussing vaccine distribution. “Because we won in those swing states,” adding, “You can’t steal hundreds of thousands of votes.”

But stealing hundreds of thousands of votes is precisely what Trump and his desperate band of denialists attempt, as they try to invalidate tallies that went for Biden.

Trump’s furious court challenges have failed spectacularly in Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania. The only state to miss the safe harbor deadline was Wisconsin, due to a Thursday court hearing — meaning that Badger State electors will be the only ones subject to congressional challenge.

Tuesday, even as the Supreme Court declined an attempt by Trump allies to overturn Pennsylvania’s results, Texas’ attorney general asked the high court to block four other states from filing their Electoral College votes because they adjusted their voting procedures to enfranchise people during the COVID pandemic. It would be funny if it weren’t so sad, and so damaging to America’s status as a paragon of democracy worldwide.

The shenanigans will continue. The man who used a racist lie about foreign birth to claim his predecessor was illegitimate will use essentially racist lies about intrinsically illegitimate urban votes to claim his successor is illegitimate.

Nearly 90% of Republicans in Congress refuse to acknowledge Biden’s victory. Two outright insist Trump won. And one, Rep. Alex Mooney of West Virginia, is floating a resolution to formally condemn members who call on the president to concede.

Four years drunk on a demagogue’s lies have brought Republicans to a rock bottom of servility and humiliation.

— New York Daily News