Trump will keep trying to to overturn the 2020 election ‘until we get the correct result,’ spokeswoman says

• Liz Harrington said Trump’s 2020 election fraud claims will persist until the result changes.
• Speaking to Steve Bannon, Trump’s spokesperson repeated false claims that the election was fraudulent.
• Trump is seeking to decertify the 2020 election. There is no legal process to do so in the US.

Former President Donald Trump and his allies will keep trying to overturn the 2020 election “until we get the correct result,” his spokeswoman has said.

Liz Harrington made the comment during an episode of Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast released Tuesday, after Trump’s former chief strategist asked about ongoing efforts to decertify the election.

“This is not going away and it is never going to go away until we get the correct result and fix our elections, it’s just that simple,” Harrington said.

“We still are getting more information about how fraudulent these elections were.”

Trump and his allies have long falsely maintained that the 2020 election was stolen from him, and that fraudulent ballots unfairly swung the vote in President Joe Biden’s favor.

There is no evidence to suggest the election was stolen. Regardless, the Trump camp has launched a number of legal challenges to the election result, which have so-far largely failed.

Now, Trump and his supporters are now focussed on decertifying the election result, something which is currently impossible in practice. There is no legal process in the US to decertify an election once a president has been sworn into office.

“The only means of removing a president is through the impeachment process or 25th amendment process set forth in the Constitution, and none of those measures lead to a decertification or to a re-vote,” Richard Hasen, the co-director of the Fair Elections and Free Speech Center, told Agence France-Presse last year.

Refreshed efforts to decertify the election result are underway in Arizona and Wisconsin and, speaking to Bannon, Harrington praised the “patriots” still fighting for Trump.

In September, Trump wrote a letter to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asking him to consider “decertifying” the 2020 election result. Raffensperger has previously said Biden won the state’s election.

In a separate podcast episode released last month, Bannon said that Trump’s rally in Arizona on January 15 was the springboard for a national decertification attempt. 

“It’s the kickoff of 2022. A huge speech in front of a massive crowd by Donald J. Trump and, of course, they’re all melting down about who’s on stage with him. They’re all people that are going to get to the decertification of the 2020 Biden electors,” he said.

During the rally, Arizona state senator Wendy Rogers led the crowd in a chant of “decertify.”