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President Donald Trump’s campaign was returning to a Wisconsin court on Friday (local time) to advocate for the annulment of the state’s election results, with the Electoral College vote just three days away and a judge Skeptical federal approaching a ruling on a similar case.
Trump was pushing to overturn Joe Biden’s narrow victory in Wisconsin with a state and federal lawsuit in court there and as part of a larger lawsuit filed in the United States Supreme Court by the Texas attorney general.
Trump’s lawyers have pushed for a speedy resolution as Biden voters in Wisconsin and across the country will cast their votes on Monday.
Trump and his allies have suffered a series of defeats both in Wisconsin and across the country by filing lawsuits that are based on baseless allegations of widespread fraud and election abuse.
A Trump-appointed federal judge in Wisconsin said Thursday that the president’s lawsuit was “unbelievable,” “bizarre,” and “very bizarre,” and calling for the results to be reversed would be “the most notable ruling in the history of this court o of the federal government. ” judicial”.
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Federal District Judge Brett Ludwig promised to issue his ruling on Friday.
Meanwhile, in state court, Trump’s attorneys were arguing Friday over the disqualification of more than 221,000 votes cast in Milwaukee and Dane counties. Those are the two most Democratic counties in Wisconsin and the only counties in which Trump sought a recount. You are not contesting any votes cast in the counties you won.
Julio Cortez / AP
Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 US elections.
Biden won the state by nearly 21,000 votes, a 0.6 percent margin.
Trump wants to disqualify absentee ballots cast in advance and in person, saying a proper written request was not made for the ballots; absentee votes cast by persons who claimed “indefinitely confined” status; absentee ballots collected by poll workers in Madison parks; and absentee ballots where the clerks filled in the missing information on the ballot envelopes.
Attorneys for Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and the state’s bipartisan election commission have called Trump’s claims ridiculous, without evidence, presented too late and an attempt to disenfranchise the state’s 3.3 million voters.
Susan Walsh / AP
President-elect Joe Biden will take office on January 20.
If Trump loses in state court, he can seek an appeal to the conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court.
That court previously refused to hear his case before it went through the lower courts.
Most justices have also openly questioned whether it would be appropriate to disqualify the ballots as Trump seeks.
PATRICK SEMANSKY / AP
US President Donald Trump falsely claims widespread election fraud.
Also Friday, Republican-controlled committees in the state legislature were holding an invitation-only public hearing to accept testimony about the elections.
Republicans asked primarily conservative supporters to speak, including a Milwaukee radio host, but not the top state election official or the chief of elections in the city or county of Milwaukee.
