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For a man obsessed with winning, Donald Trump is losing a lot.
In the month since the election, the president and his legal team have not come close in their frantic efforts to overturn the result, recording dozens of losses in courts across the country, with more arriving every day.
According to an Associated Press count of about 50 cases brought by the Trump campaign and its allies, more than 30 have been rejected or abandoned, and about a dozen are awaiting action.
Advocacy group Democracy Docket further raised Trump’s losses, tweeting on friday that Trump’s team had lost 46 post-election lawsuits after several recent losses in multiple states on Friday.
Trump has achieved only one small victory, a case that challenges the decision to move the deadline to provide missing proof of identification for certain absentee ballots and mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania.
Five more losses occurred on Friday. Trump’s campaign lost its attempt to overturn the Nevada election results and a Michigan appeals court rejected a case from his campaign. The Minnesota Supreme Court dismissed a challenge filed by Republican lawmakers. And in Arizona, a judge rejected an attempt to undo Biden’s victory there, concluding that the president of the state’s Republican Party could not prove fraud or misconduct and that the evidence presented at trial would not reverse Trump’s loss. The Wisconsin Supreme Court also declined to hear a lawsuit filed by a conservative group over the loss of Trump.
Trump’s latest failures came when California certified Joe Biden as the official winner in the state, officially awarding him the electoral college majority needed to win the White House. Formal approval by Secretary of State Alex Padilla of the state’s 55 pledged voters brought Biden’s tally so far to 279, according to an Associated Press tally, slightly more than the 270 threshold needed for victory.
The Republican president and his allies continue to mount new cases, recycling the same baseless claims, even after Trump’s own attorney general, William Barr, stated this week that the Justice Department had not discovered any widespread fraud.
“This will continue to be a losing strategy, and in a way it’s even bad for him – he can lose the election again many times,” said Kent Greenfield, a professor at Boston College Law School. “The depth of his petulance and narcissism continues to amaze me.”
Trump has refused to admit he lost and this week posted a 46-minute speech on Facebook filled with conspiracy theories, misstatements and promises to continue his fight to subvert the election.
State judges on the battlefield have repeatedly rejected the legal challenges presented by the president and his allies. Trump’s legal team has vowed to take a Pennsylvania case to the United States Supreme Court even though it was thrown out in a scathing ruling by a federal judge, as well as an appeals court.
After recently being ousted from Trump’s legal team, conservative attorney Sidney Powell filed new lawsuits this week in Arizona and Wisconsin riddled with errors and outlandish conspiracy claims about election manipulation. One of the named plaintiffs in the Wisconsin case said he never agreed to participate in the case and learned through social media that he had been included.
In his video released Wednesday, Trump falsely claimed that there were facts and evidence of a massive conspiracy created by Democrats to steal the election, a similar argument presented by his attorney Rudy Giuliani and others before the judges, which have largely been without success.
Most of his claims are based on conspiracy theories about voting machines, as well as testimony from partisan election watchers who claimed they did not get close enough to see ballots counted due to Covid security precautions. .
“No, I did not hear any facts or evidence,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, tweeted after viewing the video Wednesday night. “What I did hear was a sad spiel on Facebook from a man who lost an election.”
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