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By Reuters 
1 hour ago
Jan Wolfe and Jeff Mason
Washington – President Donald Trump’s campaign said Tuesday it would file a lawsuit to prevent the battleground state of Michigan from certifying its election results, as Congressional Democrats said a witness who had brought allegations of ballot tampering in Pennsylvania he retracted his accusations.
Michigan’s lawsuit will request that the results of the elections in the state not be certified until it can be verified that the votes were legally cast, Trump’s campaign attorney Matt Morgan told reporters on a conference call.
It was the latest in a string of lawsuits the Trump campaign has filed since Democrat Joe Biden took office. Biden’s victory in the November 3 election was fueled by victories in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Trump has repeatedly claimed, without proof, that there was widespread electoral fraud.
Judges have already filed lawsuits in Michigan and Georgia filed by the campaign, and legal experts say Trump’s litigation has little chance of changing the outcome of the election.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a Trump ally, said Saturday that the Senate Judiciary Committee would investigate allegations of voting irregularities in Pennsylvania after receiving an affidavit from a U.S. Postal Service worker who alleged that Illegal postmark mail ballots may have been added.
Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania urged an audit of the election results. “We just got a lot of allegations,” State Rep. Dawn Keefer told reporters Tuesday.
Later that day, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee said postal worker Richard Hopkins had retracted his allegations, according to the Postal Service’s internal watchdog. That office declined to comment.
The committee said on Twitter that Hopkins did not explain why he made up the accusations.
The Trump campaign provided Hopkins’s affidavit to Graham, who then sent a letter to the Justice Department and the FBI requesting that they launch an investigation.
The campaign filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court in Pennsylvania to stop the certification of the state’s results, citing lax oversight of voting by mail.
Bob Bauer, a senior adviser to Biden, on Tuesday dismissed the Trump campaign litigation as “theater, not really lawsuits.”
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