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Lawyer who argued for Bush in 2000 election: 'I do believe the election is over'

Friday, 13 November 2020 4:26 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 13 November 2020 4:34 PM ]

Former US Solicitor General Ted Olson

Theodore Olson, the lawyer who argued for former US President George W. Bush's case to the Supreme Court in the 2000 election, has said he believes that the November 3 election is over and that Democrat Joe Biden has won, as the dispute over the election result continues.

“The Framers, they separated the powers because they knew that individuals would be flawed. They put in lots of checks, and we just experienced one, the election,” Olson said during a panel discussion on Friday, according to the National Law Journal.

“To the extent that the citizens of this country did not like the manner in which President Trump spoke, or the manner in which he threatened people or the manner in which he executed the laws, they exercised their franchise. And we have —I do believe the election is over—we do have a new president,” Olson argued.

Biden was projected as the winner of the presidential election by the American media on Saturday and incumbent President Donald Trump has declined to concede that he was defeated.

Trump has alleged that widespread voter fraud took place in the election. His lawyers have filed lawsuits asking judges in states like Michigan and Pennsylvania to invalidate late-arriving mail-in ballots.

The Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council and the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council in a joint statement said on Thursday evening that the election was the most secure in American history.

"Right now, across the country, election officials are reviewing and double checking the entire election process prior to finalizing the result,” the groups said.

“There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised,” the officials emphasized.

Former White House aide and veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove has said that recounts and lawsuits will not overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election and swing the contest back in the president’s favor.

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The dispute over the US presidential election result continues with projected winner Joe Biden preparing to take office as Trump refuses to concede defeat.

Trump's efforts "are unlikely to move a single state from Mr. Biden's column, and certainly they're not enough to change the final outcome," Rove wrote in an article published on Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal.

Rove served in former President George W. Bush's administration and appears regularly as a political analyst on Fox News.

The dispute over the election result continues but Biden is preparing to take office. He is working to lay the groundwork for his administration despite division and rhetoric over the November 3 election outcome.

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