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 Trumps 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 dont have to have merit. Thats not the purpose. ... It is to create an opportunity for them to message falsely about whats 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 ones 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...
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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...
stillcool
(32,626 posts)will have the same access to the Republican campaign officials. If they are 'literally' going to go through every single ballot, they need babysitters.
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)UNIVERSE?