BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – Gov. John Bel Edwards said Wednesday “it’s well past time” for people to accept President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, even as most Republican members of Louisiana’s congressional delegation refuse to acknowledge the impending change at the White House.
Louisiana’s Democratic governor said Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry’s support of a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn Biden’s election win and throw out millions of votes was “unfortunate.” The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the lawsuit last week.
“I’m a lawyer. I know our courts exist to resolve disputes, but the dispute needs to be real,” Edwards said on his monthly radio call-in show, in his first detailed comments about the election’s outcome.
“If there were real evidence of the kind of voter fraud that has been alleged on a scale to make a difference in the outcome … you would think that in all the weeks since Nov. 3 that they would have been able to produce some evidence of that,” he said. “Really, they haven’t produced any.”
Edwards, who has avoided criticizing President Donald Trump, noted that multiple state and federal courts around the country have dismissed lawsuits trying to reverse Trump’s loss to Biden.