The numbers reflect the verdict of the people, not a decision by the Secretary of State's

Office or of courts or of either campaigns.

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I'm Harry Litman.

So spoke Brad Raffensberger, the Georgia Republican Secretary of State, insertifying the election

and the award of the state's 16 electoral votes for Joe Biden, whose path to the White

House is certain, however many obstacles and mudpies the petulant child in the White

House tries to throw on it.

The president continues to make preposterous claims about the election, abetted by lackeys

in the Senate and executive branch who indulge his mounting fictions about the results.

He now has summoned Michigan legislators to the White House to pressure them to torpedo

the result in Michigan and their careers by unilaterally substituting Trump electors

for the Biden slate chosen by the voters.

As courts and all occupants of the real world increasingly shoot down his pernicious fantasies,

Trump's bizarre world lawyers who are the last of the palace guards keep doubling down,

most recently calling for electors in all swing states to just be certified for the president.

Their record in court now stands at 1 and 32, and they've been forced into a series

of humiliating concessions that in fact they have no evidence whatsoever to sustain the

president's grandiose claims.

It would all be a sort of low comedy with Rudy Giuliani's hair dye running down his

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