We were so close to a constitutional crisis to think that we would allow Donald Trump to question the outcome of a presidential election and to defy all of the legal analysis which said that there was no massive voter fraud that he flat out lost the election. That was a serious moment in the history of the United States. Shame on us if we just pass it by.
Durbin discusses the risks of allowing Trump to challenge the election results.
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