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appalachiablue

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Thu Nov 5, 2020, 04:18 PM Nov 2020

Judges Dismiss Trump Claims In Georgia, Michigan

Source: AP News

48 mins ago. WASHINGTON (AP) — Judges in Georgia and Michigan quickly dismissed Trump campaign lawsuits Thursday, undercutting a campaign legal strategy to attack the integrity of the voting process in states where the result could mean President Donald Trump’s defeat. The rulings came as Democrat Joe Biden inched closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House.

In Pennsylvania, meanwhile, the Trump campaign won an appellate ruling to get party and campaign observers closer to election workers who are processing mail-in ballots in Philadelphia. But the order did not affect the counting of ballots that is proceeding in Pennsylvania. Biden campaign attorney Bob Bauer called the Republican legal challenges meritless.

“I want to emphasize that for their purposes these lawsuits don’t have to have merit. That’s not the purpose. ... It is to create an opportunity for them to message falsely about what’s taking place in the electoral process,” Bauer said Thursday, accusing the Trump campaign of “continually alleging irregularities, failures of the system and fraud without any basis.”

Biden said Wednesday the count should continue in all states, adding, “No one’s going to take our democracy away from us — not now, not ever.” But Trump campaign officials accused Democrats of trying to steal the election, despite no evidence anything of the sort was taking place...

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-sues-3-states-election-c93acbc3e1f31baf3e9023b9b61696f7



Bill Stepien, Trump campaign manager in a call with reporters Thursday morning, said that “every night the president goes to bed with a lead” and every night new votes “are mysteriously found in a sack.”

Jason Miller, Trump campaign spokesman said additional legal action was expected and would be focused on giving campaign officials access to where ballots were being counted. “We will literally be going through every single ballot,” he said of the count in hotly contested Nevada.

The Trump campaign has also announced that it will ask for a recount in Wisconsin. Stepien previously cited “irregularities in several Wisconsin counties,” without providing specifics.

The Associated Press called Wisconsin and Michigan for Biden on Wednesday. The AP has not called Georgia, Nevada or Pennsylvania...
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Judges Dismiss Trump Claims In Georgia, Michigan (Original Post) appalachiablue Nov 2020 OP
so I guess Democratic Campaign officials... stillcool Nov 2020 #1
"every night the president goes to bed with a lead" -IN WHAT Kashkakat v.2.0 Nov 2020 #2

stillcool

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1. so I guess Democratic Campaign officials...
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 04:22 PM
Nov 2020

will have the same access to the Republican campaign officials. If they are 'literally' going to go through every single ballot, they need babysitters.

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