Trump Stress-Tested the Election System

New York Times: “In the end — and the postelection standoff instigated by Mr. Trump and his party is truly nearing its end — the president’s attack on the election wheezed to an anticlimax. It was marked not by dangerous new political convulsions but by a letter from an obscure Trump-appointed bureaucrat, Emily W. Murphy of the General Services Administration, authorizing the process of formally handing over the government to Mr. Biden.”

“For now, the country appears to have avoided a ruinous breakdown of its electoral system. Next time, Americans might not be so lucky.”