Analyzing Trump’s Strong Performance with Latinx Voters

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Can I ask you whether you yet have heard any credible evidence or anything that might make you, based on your experience, feel that President Trump has a legal case that will stand up, and it’s one that seems to be quite wide in many different states?

BARRY RICHARD, FORMER ATTORNEY FOR THE GEORGE W. BUSH CAMPAIGN: I have heard nothing legitimate whatsoever that would give any meaningful base to the cases he’s filed.

AMANPOUR: It also seems, even his own allies kind of not giving us any major information. It just looks like, you know, there’s a few questions here, a few questions there, but it’s not like we’re coming out and being told with any, you know, credible evidence or facts to back it up. What do you think the process is? I mean, I know I’m asking you to speculate, but you’re very experienced. You’ve done this before. What do you think is going on? Why do you think the Trump campaign, President Trump is following this process and this path right now?

RICHARD: He’s either getting bad advice or he doesn’t care about the advice that he’s getting, which would not be surprising given who we’re dealing with. The fact is that in order to have any chance in a court of law, you’ve got to the walk in with credible evidence of fraud or irregularities and it has to be evidence that would affect enough ballots so that it would change the election. I have not so far seen either one of those things. I understand that Trump supporters are very upset, but the fact is that you don’t make cases based upon the fact that people are upset. And fortunately, for all of us courts don’t make decisions without credible evidence.

AMANPOUR: So, you heard those supporters. I mean, they just don’t believe it. They don’t believe, that you know, it’s legal in Pennsylvania to count mail-in ballots even after the days of the election, specific and specified days, and you see that the president’s people, maybe the president himself, believe that they still have a route to overturning this vote and that maybe he can stay in office. Again, do you think that’s serious, or is it, I don’t know, a drip, drip, day by day attempt to get used to fact that maybe he’s lost?

RICHARD: Well, I don’t know what’s going to happen with President Trump, but I suspect that what’s going to happen with our society in general is that as it always happens eventually people are going to go back to work and they are going to forgot about this. I know in 2000, I was asked by a number of reporters whether I thought that either candidate would be able to govern after that battle, and my answer was, on Monday morning when this is over everybody will go back to work and we’re going to have a president. Now, this may take a little bit longer with President Trump’s core supporters, but eventually they will go back to their normal concerns and their day-to-day lives and we’ll go on.