By Al Perrotta, The Stream, December 1, 2020
The Trump campaign’s effort to contest the results of the 2020 election enters a crucial week. Right now, the campaign, and their legal allies, await decisions on lawsuits in key battleground states as well as the results of vote audits and hand recounts in Georgia and Wisconsin.
Their legal efforts have begun to get traction in the courts. But the campaign has yet to fight the dominant media narrative. All major media outlets, including Fox News, continue to portray the Trump legal challenges as “baseless” and “unsubstantiated.” The press, by referring to Joe Biden as “President-elect,” has also reinforced the expectation of an inevitable Biden presidency. The Trump challenges, we’re supposed to believe, are futile. …