Trump doubtful of Supreme Court bid
•U.S. President Donald Trump questioned on Sunday whether the Supreme Court would ever hear a case airing his unproven allegations of widespread election fraud as more U.S. Republicans said a transition to a Joe Biden presidency looked inevitable.
Trump’s comments in a telephone interview with Fox News suggested the Republican president was growing resigned to the results of the Nov. 3 election, which handed the White House to his Democratic opponent.
Trump’s team was dealt another blow with the completion on Sunday of recounts in Wisconsin’s two largest counties that confirmed Biden won the hotly contested state by more than 20,000 votes.
Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis said the recounts “revealed serious issues regarding the legality of ballots cast,” without elaborating or providing any evidence.
“We want every legal vote, and only legal votes, to be counted, and we will continue to uphold our promise to the American people to fight for a free and fair election,” Ellis said in a statement.
Despite the Trump campaign’s pledge to keep fighting however, a few Republicans appeared to endorse the notion that Biden had won.
Sen. Roy Blunt, chairman of the congressional inaugural committee, said the panel expected Biden to be sworn in as president on Jan.
20.
“We’re working with the Biden administration, the likely administration, on both the transition and the inauguration as if we’re moving forward,” Blunt told CNN’S State of the Union, stopping short of acknowledging that Trump lost.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, one of a few Republicans to refer to Biden as president- elect, told Fox News Sunday that “the transition is what is important. The words of President Trump are not quite as significant.”
Trump used his Fox News interview to repeat unsubstantiated allegations about widespread electoral fraud. His campaign and legal team have lost dozens of lawsuits by failing to convince judges of election irregularities in states including Michigan, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.
Trump was unclear about what he would do next.
“The problem is it’s hard to get it to the Supreme Court,” Trump said.
Trump’s legal team has offered conflicting statements on its likely course following a defeat in a federal appeals court on Friday in a case challenging Biden’s win in Pennsylvania.
“On to SCOTUS!” Ellis wrote on Twitter after the ruling, suggesting a plan to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Later, however, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani was reported to have told One America News Network that the legal team was still weighing which case might be appropriate to pursue at the top court.