President-elect Joseph R Biden’s win has now been confirmed, and his inauguration is scheduled to happen soon, within the next few days as of writing this. His win was established for the second time by the electoral college and was pushed over the top by California’s 55 votes. Despite the now fully-guaranteed election, Trump and his team still seem to be adamant that the election was rigged so Biden could win.

According to the New York Times, “…about 145 messages on Twitter lashing out at the results of an election he lost.” as of December 7th. It’s clear that Mr. Trump still doesn’t want to acknowledge Biden’s win, not even inviting Joe Biden to the White House. Trump has also hinted that he may not attend Biden’s inauguration, which would make him the first president since 1869 who chose not to participate in what is referred to as a “peaceful transfer of power.”

Trump had begun to call out fellow Republican party members who didn’t believe his voter fraud and rigged election claims. His tweet against Gov. Doug Ducey and Mr. Brian Kemp of Arizona stated that they “fight harder against us than do the Radical Left Dems.”

Several questionable events occurred during Trump’s presidency, leading to his refusal to concede to the election results. Some main examples are his and his administration’s response and actions towards the COVID-19 pandemic, and now, the Pro-Trump attack on the Capitol building in Washington D.C. It’s become relatively clear throughout the last few months that the recent events of Trump’s final term as president and the impending inauguration of Joe Biden have been, for lack of a better word, chaotic. And nothing compared to the several presidential transitions that have occurred over the years. But there is one case that many officials have looked to, so the issue at hand can be resolved.

The presidential election of 1876 is said to be one of the most disputed elections in American history. Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes won the election and served his four-year term as President even though his opponent, Democratic candidate Samuel Tilden, accumulated more votes than Hayes. The arguments from this event were said to have been cited for trying to overturn Donald Trump’s defeat in this election. Senator Ted Cruz is one of ten other Republicans who were allies of Trump that used the resolution of this dispute in 1876 to convince Congress of his proposal to create a fifteen-member group that would verify the election results from various states.

Of course, there are several differences between that election debate and the one that is currently happening. One main difference is that nearly all of Trump’s voter fraud claims have been proven to be baseless, which was the conclusion for both Republican and Democratic election authorities.

In the end, the attempts made by Trump’s friends, his administration, and Trump himself, to overturn the 2020 election results haven’t worked thus far, and resulted in more harm than good. The main concern now is whether things will improve when Biden takes office and if his plans for relief will make progress. Since this is still an ongoing situation, we’ll be able to see what happens next in at least a few weeks from now and how it will affect American history.