Trump Needs Three Consecutive Hail Mary Passes
The president’s litigation strategy is unlikely to succeed, but it’s doing great harm in the meantime.
Despite the clear math showing that Joe Biden has won the election, President Donald Trump has refused to concede. He has directed his legal team to keep on fighting to try to overturn the results of the election, including in a new 105-page federal-court filing in Pennsylvania. These legal maneuvers are unlikely to pay off in the form of a second term for Trump; he would need the equivalent of three consecutive Hail Mary passes to stay in office.
But what Trump and his legal team are doing can nevertheless cause real harm to the country going forward, should millions of people believe
