The president’s constant barrage of baseless claims, his work to personally sway local officials who certify votes, and his allies’ refusal to admit he lost is likely to have a lasting negative impact on the country.

The chair of the elections board, a Democrat, said Trump’s allegation that election clerks mailed thousands of absentee ballots to voters who hadn’t requested them was ‘absurd,’ ‘factually bizarre’ and a ‘vague, paranoid conspiracy.’