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Almost three weeks after the Associated Press and other major news organizations determined that Joe Biden would be next president of the United States, Donald Trumps re-election campaign continues to question the legitimacy of the election and the integrity of the democratic process. And even some conservative commentators are questioning this unprecedented post-electoral political maneuvering.

The presidents personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell gave a highly unusual press conference on Thursday at which they continued to level claims of election fraud without presenting any supporting evidence and Giuliani raised eyebrows by both quoting My Cousin Vinny and appearing to drip hair dye while speaking to the media.

This led Fox News contributor and Fox News Radio host Guy Benson to offer a hypothetical scenario while visiting The Story With Martha MacCallum on Thursday night: How would Republicans have reacted four years ago if Democrat Hillary Clinton had refused to concede the election to Trump citing, perhaps, interference by Russia? And what if President Barack Obama started summoning Democrats from swing states to the White House?

Benson said that his fellow conservatives would have been screaming their heads off:

I think conservatives would rightly have been in the streets screaming their heads off, and I would have been right there with them, because thats not what we do in this country.

That would be a shocking departure from our system of governance and the transfer of power in this country, he continued. I think this is a very dangerous path to even consider, let alone go down.

And while Fox News host Tucker Carlson was one of the few to defend Giuliani on Thursday just hours after Kristen Fisher, the networks White House correspondent, had criticized the former New York City mayor for not providing evidence to back up his explosive claims and for saying things that were simply not true or [have] already been thrown out in court he did call out Trumps legal team for getting angry when asked to provide evidence.

Carlson gave a monologue on Thursday night, which was also published as op-ed on the Fox News website, explaining that he had asked Powell to show evidence proving the Trump campaigns claim that some American voting machines used technology developed by the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez to change votes to favor Biden.

Now, Carlson didnt completely discredit her baseless claim, instead calling it something that could amount to the single greatest crime in American history. But he did call her out for refusing to show any evidence to support her allegations, or to come on his show to discuss the matter.

She never sent us any evidence despite a lot of requests, polite requests, not a page, said Carlson. When we kept pressing she got angry and told us to stop contacting her.

When we checked with others around the Trump campaign, people in positions of authority, they told us Powell has never given any evidence either. Nor did she provide any today, he continued.

Powell responded to Carlsons comments in an interview with the Washington Examiner.

I would continue to encourage him and all journalists to review all the materials we have provided so far and conduct their own investigations, she said. Evidence continues to pour in, but a five-minute television hit is not my focus now. Collecting evidence and preparing the case are my top priorities.

Republican senators Mitt Romney of Utah and Ben Sasse of Nebraska joined the handful of conservatives criticizing Trump and his team for pressuring state and local election officials to overturn Bidens victories in closely contested states. It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American President, Romney tweeted on Thursday.

Rudy and his buddies should not pressure electors to ignore their certification obligations under the statute, Sasse said in a statement. We are a nation of laws, not tweets.

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