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Republicans say a transition would be peaceful, but Bill Barr is laying the
groundwork for an election challenge. Plus, Sufjan Stevens on America’s evilsmorning.
As Donald Trump once again declined to say there would be a peaceful transfer
of power if he lost the November presidential election, several senior
Republicans stepped in to dismiss his critics’ concerns. Without mentioning the
president by name, Trump’s senate allies Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and
Marco Rubio said the election aftermath would be “orderly” and “peaceful”.
Yet there
remain disturbing signals that Trump may try to disrupt the election,
especially if he appears to be losing. According to a report in the Atlantic,
Republicans are considering asking GOP-controlled state legislatures to ignore
the will of the popular vote and appoint their own pro-Trump electors.
Critics of
the US attorney general, Bill Barr, say the country’s top law enforcement
official has laid the groundwork for a challenge to the election result, and
that he has a deep sense of mission about re-electing Trump. Barr’s “abuses
have only escalated as we have gotten closer and closer to the election,”
Donald K Sherman, deputy director of a Washington DC watchdog group, told Tom
McCarthy:
I can’t put
it more plainly than this: the attorney general is a threat to American
citizens having free and fair access to the vote, and is a threat to American
having their votes counted.
Bernie
Sanders has called for an independent election commission to prevent Trump
defying the will of people, telling supporters in Washington: “This is an
election between Donald Trump and democracy – and democracy must win.”
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