According to the US Census Bureau , in a highly contested 2020 election cycle, over 154 million Americans took to the polls. The race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was close. According to Ballotpedia , Biden had earned over 81.2 million votes to Trump's 74.2 million. In the end, Biden won the election with 306 electoral votes, beating Trump by 74 votes. (Ballotpedia, 2020) In a dark moment of American Democracy, Trump and the Republican Party refused (and continue) to accept the results of the 2020 election. Trump supporters across the country protested, demanding Secretaries of State recount all of the votes. As Trump grew more and more desperate to remain in power, so did his supporters. According to the Brookings Institute , the GOP launched 60+ court cases challenging the election results in 63 separate state court filings to overturn individual state election results. Team Trump only won a minor case of all the legal challenges. The Republican Party of New Mexico ...
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