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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Nov 6, 2020, 09:01 PM Nov 2020

Trump's new campaign: Flurry of election lawsuits in search of strategy

It started within hours after the polls closed on Election Day.

With once-comfortable margins quickly disappearing in Georgia and Pennsylvania and Joe Biden on the cusp of an Electoral College victory, President Donald Trump launched a new campaign wielding a familiar weapon: the lawsuit.

Since early Wednesday, the president’s lawyers have threatened or filed a flurry of legal actions — from Philadelphia to the Nevada desert — remarkable if only for the smorgasbord of claims.

In Michigan, a bid to stop the count of mail-in ballots because a poll watcher was excluded from observing the count was thrown out almost as soon as it was filed. A Georgia challenge met a similarly swift fate when lawyers claimed a cache of ballots near Savannah had arrived late and were improperly stored.

And in Nevada, the Trump campaign and the state Republican Party promised a suit claiming thousands of nonresidents had voted. When the lawsuit was filed, it focused on the claim of a single voter who claimed she hadn't voted by mail, as elections officials said she had.

The frantic effort, which could intensify in the coming days, has taken on the appearance of legal crusade in search of a strategy.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-new-campaign-flurry-of-election-lawsuits-in-search-of-strategy/ar-BB1aLDk1?li=BBnb7Kz

Throw shit at the wall and see what sticks.

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