WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 26: President Donald Trump speaks at the White House Diplomatic Hall on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2020, in Washington, DC. Trump had earlier made the traditional appeal to military members abroad
President Trump promised a “wild” protest on Saturday, January 6, in Washington, DC, as he continued to deny losing the election.
“Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 election,” he wrote on Twitter. “The big protest in DC on January 6. Be there, it will be wild!”
January 6 is the day Congress will meet to accept the results of the presidential election. President-elect Joe Biden won the election, and presidential voters cast their ballots last week in the Electoral College.
But Trump and his campaign have challenged the results and launched numerous legal challenges, although almost all have failed. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit in Texas that sought to overturn millions of votes in key swing states.
About four dozen lawsuits from the Trump and Allies campaign to claim election results in the past six weeks have been dropped by state and federal judges.
Trump’s legal team has said it intends to continue to raise legal challenges, but experts say there is little chance of success.
On Saturday, Trump linked a report by Peter Navarro that claims without evidence that the amount of electoral fraud was enough to tie the election.
Some Trump allies have planned to call for a debate in the House when the election results are received. However, those plans took a hit when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urged his Senate Republican colleagues not to contest the Jan. 6 election results, when a joint congressional session officially accepted the count.
McConnell’s move could effectively put an end to any hope of a last-minute postponement for the president. A majority of both houses of Congress (including the House of Democrats) would be needed to increase the election results.
Meanwhile, Trump criticized those in his party who accepted Biden’s victory.
After McConnell acknowledged Biden as president-elect in a Senate speech on Tuesday, Trump responded by calling on him and other Republicans to “get tougher.”
“. @ senatemajldr and the republican senators have to get tougher, otherwise you won’t have a republican party anymore. I won the presidential election by far. FIGHT FOR HIM. Don’t let them take them!” Trump accused on Twitter.
Trump, who lost more than 7 million votes, also followed a number of other Republicans over their position in the election – including Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and R-Wyo’s Liz Cheney.
Paul Steinhauser and Tyler Olson of Fox News contributed to this report.