U.S. President Donald Trump points a finger during a meeting with Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney (not pictured) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 7, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Five years after losing to Democrat Joe Biden, Donald Trump continues to claim that the United States' 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. That claim has been repeatedly debunked, yet Trump is calling for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch new 2020 investigations.
In an article published on November 11, Washington Post reporters Isaac Arnsdorf, Patrick Marley and Perry Stein describe the conflict between MAGA Republicans who remain obsessed with that election and Republicans who wish Trump would move on and abandon his "renewed focus on 2020."
"President Donald Trump is dialing up pressure on the Justice Department to freshly scrutinize ballots from the 2020 election, raising tensions with administration officials who think their time is better spent examining voter lists for future elections," the Post reporters explain. "In recent private meetings, public comments and social media posts, Trump has renewed demands that members of his administration find fraud in the five-year-old defeat that he never accepted. He recently hired at the White House a lawyer who worked on contesting the 2020 results."
Arnsdorf, Marley and Stein add, "Administration officials and allies have asked to inspect voting equipment in Colorado and Missouri. Others are seeking mail ballots from Atlanta in 2020, when Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to lose Georgia since 1992."
Rob Pitts, chairman of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners in Georgia, believes that revisiting 2020 is a waste of time for Trump and his allies.
Pitts told the Post, "It makes no sense to me to continue to look at the 2020 elections,” Audit after audit, review after review, where does it end? One more time? Two more times?"
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