Trumpworld Likens Lawsuits To Bush Vs. Gore – But Bush Figures Reject The Comparison

Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis and Reps. Clay Higgins (R-La.), Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) and Jason Smith (R-Mo.) have all cited Bush v. Gore as an example of how protracted legal battles to challenge the results are far from unprecedented – though that decision ultimately ended a recount and resulted in a victory for the apparent winner.

Two Bush vs. Gore lawyers – Gore attorney David Boies and Bush attorney Ted Olson – noted as much in a Washington Post op-ed on Saturday, dismissing comparisons between 2000 and 2020 and stating “Biden will be president… that is the clear outcome.”

The lawyers point out that the electoral college result in 2000 hinged on an “agonizingly close” 537-vote margin in Florida, as opposed to Biden’s leads of over 10,000 in several states putting him over 270 electoral votes.

“The litigation will serve only to delay the inevitable resolution of this year’s presidential election,” Olson and Boies write of Trump’s lawsuits, which haven’t found many sympathetic judicial ears and, where they’ve succeeded, have failed to make any dent in Biden’s margin.

Olson’s fellow Republican Bush vs. Gore attorney Ben Ginsberg concurs, telling PBS there is “not evidence” to back up Trump’s claims of widespread fraud and asserting there “aren’t enough votes involved” in Trump’s absentee ballot case before the Supreme Court to swing the election.

Karl Rove, the Bush’s chief strategist in 2000, wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that Biden’s win “won’t be overturned,” while both of Bush’s secretaries of state, Bush’s brother Jeb Bush (the governor of Florida in 2000) and George W. Bush himself have all acknowledged Biden’s victory.