What the Trump campaign’s legal fights could mean for this election and overall public trust

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Publish Date:
November 10, 2020
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PBS NewsHour
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“neither the media nor the concession speech has any relevance”

“I think what’s happening now is you’d have to litigate on so many fronts to make a difference that it’s pretty pointless,”

“everyone is going to start realizing that this is a fool’s errand.”

“an attempt to try to discover things and create doubt”

“adjudicating the result”

“They are down by too much to”

“where the litigation will prove fruitful, unless there is some big surprise,”

“There are going to be 50 million people who think that this election was stolen,”

And that has long-term problems for democratic legitimacy in the U.S. People are going to regard Biden as an illegitimate leader. And that is very disturbing. And it’s going to lead to a lot of acrimony.”

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