The report, “LOST, NOT STOLEN: The Conservative Case That Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election,” looked at more than 60 lawsuits that Trump and his supporters filed and lost in six key states. battlefield. The “unequivocal” conclusion was reached that the former Republican president’s claims were untenable, which Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security and election officials across the country denied days after the 2020 election. ‘report was published when the House select committee investigated on 6 January. , 2021, the U.S. Capitol insurgency has held public hearings that have linked Trump’s involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 election to the attack that prevented Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory. Trump is considering a presidential race announcement in early 2024, CNN has previously reported.
“There is absolutely no evidence of fraud in the 2020 presidential election about the magnitude needed to change the outcome in any state, let alone in the nation as a whole. In fact, there was no fraud that would change the outcome. not even in a single district, ”the report says.
The report is signed by retired judges of federal appeals courts Thomas B. Griffith, J. Michael Luttig and Michael W. McConnell, former Attorney General Theodore B. Olson, former U.S. Senators John Danforth and Gordon H. Smith, Republican Election Attorney Benjamin. L. Ginsberg and veteran Republican Congress chief of staff David Hoppe. Many of them have been critics of Trump for a long time.
“Even now, twenty months after the election, a period in which Trump supporters have been vigorously scouring every nook and cranny to prove that the election was stolen, they come out empty. sympathetic communication and are accepted as truthful. by many patriotic Americans. But in an objective examination they have fallen short, every time, “the report says.
The report warns that “it is wrong and bad for our country for people to spread baseless claims that the election of President Biden was not legitimate.”
He delved into a detailed examination of each case presented by Trump and his supporters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Trump and his supporters alleged fraud, irregularities and procedural shortcomings in their challenges to the courts.
Trump and his allies lost almost all of the more than 60 cases they filed to challenge the results of the 2020 election, the report notes. Twenty were fired before a hearing on the merits, 14 were withdrawn by Trump and his supporters, and 30 included a view on the merits, he found.
The Conservative group argued that Trump and his supporters had “an obligation to acknowledge that the election debate was over.”
“Elections of electoral legality must be resolved dispassionately in the courts, not through rallies and demonstrations, and most emphatically, not applying political pressure and threats to induce Congress to ignore its constitutional duty and electoral result for which the people voted, and which the legal processes of the affected states had examined and confirmed, ”the report says.
The group urged “fellow Conservatives to stop obsessing over the results of the 2020 elections and instead focus on presenting candidates and ideas that offer a positive outlook to overcome our current difficulties and bring more peace,” prosperity and freedom in our nation. “
The Jan. 6 committee has held seven public hearings so far, presenting testimonies from the Trump campaign and administration staff that there was no evidence of election fraud and that Trump ignored warnings that his plan to cancel. lar elections was illegal. Hearings have also detailed Trump’s pressure campaign at different levels of government and his attempts to incorporate the Justice Department into his efforts.