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(Reuters) – Donald Trump’s campaign said it filed a lawsuit in Georgia state court on Friday to invalidate the results of the presidential election there, the latest in a series of legal challenges aimed at reversing its loss that have so far failed to gone nowhere.
The Trump campaign said in a statement that its new lawsuit would include affidavits from Georgia residents alleging fraud.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican like Trump, and other state officials have repeatedly said they have found no evidence of widespread fraud in the Nov. 3 election won by Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump’s team and several backers have suffered a series of legal defeats across the country, including cases filed in Nevada and Wisconsin that sought court orders to reverse the election results of those states.
President-elect Biden won the election with 306 electoral college votes, to the 270 required, compared to 232 for Trump.
A district judge in Nevada on Friday dismissed a case brought by Republican presidential hopefuls and said they must pay the defendants’ legal costs after failing to “meet their burden of providing credible and relevant evidence to support” any of the claims of the lawsuit.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court in a 4-3 decision refused to act in a case that sought to have the court overturn presidential elections in the state and pave the way for the state legislature to elect all 10 Wisconsin presidential electors.
“Such a move would appear to be unprecedented in the history of the United States,” Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn wrote in his four-judge concurring opinion issued Friday.
The Trump campaign has spent nearly $ 9 million in its failed attempt to overturn the election results, including nearly $ 2.3 million for lawyers and consultants.
The campaign and the Republican National Committee have raised at least $ 207.5 million since Election Day, largely from requests for donations for an “Official Election Defense Fund.”
The fine print made it clear that most of the money would go to other priorities through Trump’s new political action committee, potentially boosting his future political efforts.
(Additional reporting by Timothy Ahmann; edited by Colleen Jenkins, Leslie Adler, and Sonya Hepinstall)
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