I'm surprised that so many people think that the court cases for this are a complete dead-end and have already resigned themselves to the 'fact' that Joe Biden is the definitive winner of the election. It wasn't just CNN who declared Al Gore the victor of the 2000 election, it was practically the entire media complex. Al Gore was in the same position that Biden is in right now, in that his campaign had already effectively considered itself victorious, and the cases had dragged on for so long into December that he was already preparing for the inauguration. Most of the forums probably isn't old enough to remember it, but Al Gore didn't sue from a position of weakness and lose, he stood at the top of the stack and got knocked off by the lawsuit, so not only is there a precedent for this, there's a fairly recent one.
Is it likely that Trump wins every single one of these cases and reverses the entire trend? Hell I'll be honest: No, not really. But it also wasn't likely that he was going to win the 2016 election in the first place, it wasn't likely that he would get three Supreme Court nominations during his term, that he'd gut out the Jeff Flake wing of the Republican party and reshape the whole thing. It wasn't likely that ISIS would go from dominating the Middle East to being virtually non-existent, it wasn't likely that we'd see the end of the Korean War, the avoidance of new wars, and the outbreak of peace agreements between so many countries in the Middle East, or that we'd see 500 miles of the wall built despite constant opposition from everyone who could find a wrench.
It wasn't likely that Avenatti would wind up in jail, that Epstein would be assuming room temperature, that Ed Buck would be sent to prison or that we'd leave NAFTA in the dust and replace it with the USMCA, that we'd see a President who actually fulfilled the promise to move the embassy to Jerusalem, or fulfill the promise to bring troops back from Afghanistan. We never expected to see the individual mandate get torn out of the ACA or the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to practically become a Conservative majority. It was completely unexpected that he'd make it through the Special Counsel without them digging up something to nail him to the wall or that he'd come out of the other side of the impeachment hearings unscathed, or that blasting the living shit out of al-Baghdadi, Soleimani, or that air field in Syria wouldn't spark a massive retaliation.
If you're going to throw a fit, you may as well wait until someone concedes or until someone gets inaugurated, because at least then it's official. At least then you know there's no coming back from it so you aren't panicking over a potentiality. Until then, this has been a very bad period in time to bet against the unlikely, and that's why I'm just waiting, because 2020 is weird and who the fuck knows.
