Nevada's biggest newspaper tells Trump to give up

 

Nevada’s largest newspaper, owned by Trump megadonor and casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, told the president Thursday that he lost the election. The Las Vegas Journal-Review, which was purchased by Mr. Adelson in 2015, said in an editorial that the president “does a disservice to his more rabid supporters by insisting that he would have won the Nov. 3 election absent voter fraud. That’s simply false.” “Mr. Trump lost this election because he ultimately didn’t attract enough votes and failed to win a handful of swing states that broke his way in 2016,” the paper said.

The headline of the editorial was “President Donald Trump seeks to delay the inevitable.”

The Trump campaign and state GOP officials have dropped their court challenge to ballot counting in the Las Vegas area. Joseph R. Biden leads the president by about 36,000 votes in Nevada, which major news organizations called for the Democrat Saturday.

There are still some ballots remaining to be counted in the state, and Trump campaign representatives have alleged widespread voting irregularities.

The Journal-Review said there is no evidence that fraud “cost Mr. Trump the election, no matter how much the president tweets the opposite and his supporters wish it so.” The editorial said “rhetoric from Trump surrogates alleging widespread illegal activity has been devoid of detailed evidence supporting the charge that there was a concerted effort to ‘steal’ the election through corruption.”

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Daniel Dale

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Meanwhile in Maricopa. What Trump lawyers are telling judges in these cases is not what Trump and his allies are telling the public.

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Alan Feuer

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Kory Langhofer, a lawyer for the Trump campaign, just said: "This is not a fraud case. We are not alleging fraud. We are not saying anyone is trying to steal the election." Rather, he's saying there were "good faith errors" in the count.

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