Daily Beast: “The official position of Donald Trump, his administration, and his reelection campaign is that he won the election that he just lost. But one of the campaign’s top surrogates bluntly says that Joe Biden indeed won, and he’s urging the president and the White House to focus on enshrining as many Trump policies as possible before the Democratic president-elect assumes power and starts undoing them.”
“‘It is what it is,’ Stephen Moore, an official Trump 2020 surrogate and an outside adviser to the president on economic and COVID-19 policy, told The Daily Beast on Wednesday evening. ‘It’s very depressing to me. I would say there’s maybe a 20 percent chance that [Trump’s legal challenges] all will work out. I am convinced the president would have won if the election was a week later than it was…I support using every avenue of legal challenge, but I’m skeptical it’s gonna work.’ Moore, a longtime conservative economist, said that he’s ‘not a lawyer,’ and doesn’t know if Trump’s legal team, headed by Rudy Giuliani, have any ‘bombshells’ coming. But he added that he doubts they’d be able to ‘prove’ anything that would overturn the election results by certification deadlines.”