ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan congratulated U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory in the 2020 presidential election.

In his message, Erdogan reiterated Ankara’s “determination to work closely with the U.S. Administration” in the coming period, adding that “the strong cooperation and alliance” between the two countries would continue to contribute to world peace.

And then there’s Jones Day, the big law firm that is representing Trump as his campaign prepares to unleash a legal war designed to overturn the election results. The firm’s role is drawing new scrutiny, and it’s making lawyers at the firm mighty uncomfortable.

The Lincoln Project is set to launch a multi-platform campaign hammering Jones Day and other firms for their role in facilitating Trump’s efforts, I’m told. It includes TV and digital ads and social media highlighting the damage that enabling Trump threatens to our democracy and to the success of the presidential transition.

“These people have now decided that attempting to undermine the outcome of a just and fair election is perfectly acceptable for their legal practices,” Rick Wilson, a GOP strategist and co-founder of the Lincoln Project, told me, in a reference to Jones Day and other firms representing Trump and the GOP.

Wilson said the Lincoln Project will “bring a light on that,” noting that such efforts help Trump in “waging lawfare against the American people.”

On November 7, 2020, after four days of vote counting, most major news outlets projected Biden as the winner of the presidential election.[843] Two days earlier, when the outcome was still in doubt, Trump had already prematurely declared victory.[844] Even with the election calls, Trump indicated that he does not accept this result and said "this election is far from over". He revived his claims of election fraud and said he will continue to launch legal challenges in key swing states,[845] though he has provided no evidence.[846]