Trump Nears ‘Checkmate’ Stage in Last-Gasp Bid to Undo Election
- Contested battleground states have appointed Biden electors
- Attorneys asking Republican lawmakers to name Trump electors
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President Donald Trump’s path to reversing the election result has nearly closed after all the key battleground states certified their vote totals and took steps to appoint electors ready to formalize Joe Biden’s victory.
Trump continues to hurl unsubstantiated accusations of voter fraud on Twitter, but he is now left with only a few extremely improbable options to derail Biden’s inauguration, with the next step -- the casting of votes by electors to the Electoral College -- set to happen in each state on Dec. 14.