Washington Post: “The Trump campaign has experienced almost nothing but setbacks in its efforts to overturn the election results. But its recent, particularly brutal flameout in court in Pennsylvania, combined with the president’s efforts to run around the election results through state legislatures, have spurred some elected Republicans to finally publicly acknowledge that Joe Biden is going to be the next president. Far more elected Republicans are still implicitly backing him as he asks courts to throw out thousands of votes and attempts to strong-arm state lawmakers in states such as Michigan to give electors to him.”
“The Pennsylvania case may be remembered as a turning point for the holdouts. It pushed Republicans away from Trump’s false fraud claims for good reason, said Jessica Levinson, host of the legal podcast Passing Judgment. The ruling the judge issued Saturday underscored with finality that the Trump campaign does not have evidence of widespread fraud, in Pennsylvania or elsewhere. ‘It’s like the legal equivalent of being run over by a forklift, a tractor, a van and then a small SUV just for good measure just to make sure you’re really dead,’ she said. ‘It’s rare to see a legal opinion saying absolutely not, don’t come back in this courtroom.'”