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The Trump campaign is sending supporters emails asking for more donations to fight the presidential election result in court.
Screenshots surfaced on social media showing an email warning a subscriber that the message would be their “last warning” after they “ignored all emails asking to defend the elections.”
The email, sent by the Trump campaign, continues: “You have ignored the Trump team, Eric, Lara, Don, the vice president AND you have even ignored the president of the United States.
“Tens of thousands of Patriots have stepped forward for the first time in the last 48 hours, why haven’t you?”
It comes as sources revealed that the Trump campaign is planning to raise at least $ 60 million (£ 45 million) to fund legal challenges over the results of the US presidential election.
President Donald Trump has claimed that Democrats are trying to “steal the election” and has called for some key states on the battlefield, such as Georgia, to recount “legal ballots.”
“From the beginning we have said that all legal ballots should be counted and all illegal ballots should not be counted, yet we have encountered resistance to this basic principle from Democrats at all times,” he said in a statement released by his campaign. .
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The president of the United States has also repeatedly tweeted about an alleged fraud by the Democrats on the vote-by-mail ballot, despite having no proof of it, and Twitter has called his comments misleading.
As Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden moves closer to winning the White House, the Trump campaign has filed lawsuits in several states, challenging the results of Tuesday’s presidential election.
A Republican donor who received applications from the campaign and the Republican National Committee said they are trying to raise $ 60 million to fund the demands.
Two other sources told Reuters the campaign wanted up to $ 100 million (£ 76 million) for the joint fundraising committee it maintains with the RNC.
Since voting ended Tuesday, the Trump campaign has sent out email and text requests alleging foul play and seeking donations, but has been unable to provide any evidence of the fraud they claim occurred.
“If you count the legal votes, I won easily. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us,” Donald Trump said while speaking in the White House press conference room.
A Trump adviser, who wanted to remain anonymous, described the campaign’s legal strategy as chaotic, disorganized and a “disservice to the president.”
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The adviser added that Trump appeared to have been caught off guard by the election results and was unprepared to embark on a legal fight.
The campaign has already lost court rulings in highly controversial states, including Georgia.
The former vice president reviewed the Republican incumbent’s leads by more than 9,000 votes in Pennsylvania and 4,235 in Georgia, where a recount was ordered.
The accountants could also be redeployed in Pennsylvania, where a recount is expected under state law if there is less than half a percentage point between the two candidates.
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As Biden’s lead grew in Pennsylvania, hundreds of Democrats gathered in front of the central Philadelphia vote-counting site, wearing yellow T-shirts that read “Count Every Vote.”
In Pennsylvania, a court ordered election officials to set aside provisional ballots cast on Election Day by voters whose absentee or mail ballots were received on time.
Georgia, which the president won by more than 200,000 votes in 2016, has not been won by Democrats since 1992.
Pennsylvania, Biden’s birth state, was narrowly snatched from the Democrats by Trump in the last election.
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Trump’s senior campaign adviser David Bossie, a prominent conservative activist who runs the advocacy group Citizens United, has been chosen to lead post-election legal challenges, according to a source familiar with Trump’s campaign strategy.
Bossie was part of a group of Trump loyalists who were in Las Vegas this week defying the count in Nevada and is a fixture in Trump’s inner circle.
A Republican official said it was doubtful that the strategy of contesting the vote count in multiple states would produce a victory for Trump, adding that it was time for the president to “move on.”
The official said: “The math is what it is, look what it would take for a count to cancel out a result and we are way out of those numbers.
“This race is over and the only person who doesn’t see it is Donald Trump.”
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Biden’s campaign launched a new “Biden Fight Fund” on Wednesday to help raise money for the legal battle, according to emails seen by Reuters.
Biden’s campaign manager, Jen O’Malley Dillon, in an email: “The president threatened to go to court to prevent the proper tabulation of votes.”
Biden is preparing to address the nation after he assumed leadership in the key battlefield states of Pennsylvania and Georgia in what could turn out to be defining moments in the elections.
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