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An American judge has just dismissed the lawsuit filed by Donald Trump’s election campaign, which seeks to neutralize millions of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, a major state on the battlefield.
District Judge Matthew Brann said “the courts were presented with unsubstantiated forced legal arguments.”
This is the latest blow for Trump, who is trying to reverse his defeat in the November 3 presidential election.
Democratic Party member Joe Biden, the expected winner in the state, will take office on November 20 as the 46th president of the United States.
Biden’s victory in the Electoral College system, which determines who becomes president, is predicted to be 306 compared to Trump’s 232, far more than the 270 that Biden should have won. Biden’s lead in the total number of electoral votes is now more than 5.9 million.
Trump has launched widespread allegations of voter fraud without providing any proof.
Despite a series of court defeats in key battlefield states, the Republican president still refused to give in to his opponents in the race for the White House.
Meanwhile, President-elect remains Biden trying to speed up the transition, this week announcing important appointments and meeting with national security experts.
What did the Pennsylvania judge say?
He said that “this court was presented with invalid forced legal arguments and speculative allegations.”
“In the United States of America, these arguments cannot justify the deprivation of a voter, much less the rights of all voters in the sixth most populous state,” the judge wrote.
Trump’s campaign lawsuit argued that some state counties allowed voters to correct errors on their mailed ballots and said they would appeal against the judge’s ruling.
In Pennsylvania, a state with 20 electoral votes, Biden is ahead of Trump more than 80,000 votes, with 99% of the votes counted.
The results of the state scrutiny are expected to be certified Monday.
Why is electoral certification important?
When Americans vote in a presidential election, they are actually voting in a state election, not a national election.
They vote for the electors in the state, who then vote for the president. Voters often obey the will of the elector; In Michigan, for example, everyone has to vote for Joe Biden because the state has won.
Each state has a different number of electoral votes, equivalent to the number of its electoral districts in the United States Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
On Friday, Georgia dealt another blow to the Trump administration by certifying Biden’s minimum win rate.
Excessive form or meaning?
Analysis by Anthony Zurcher, North American correspondent
Usually only one formal procedure in other regular elections (bipartisan certification of the total number of state votes) has become the last battleground in an effort to maintain presidential power. in the next 4 years.
Can Mr. Trump Succeed?
It is not impossible, but the chances are slim. First, the president would have to reverse the results in many states, where Biden went from tens of thousands of votes to more than 100,000 votes. This is not the year 2000, when things have to do with a hundred vote difference in one Florida.
Additionally, many of the states Trump’s legal team is targeting – Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Nevada – have Democratic governors who won’t sit idly by while all of this happens.
However, that doesn’t mean that Biden’s supporters aren’t worried. Although the probability of this happening is similar to that of the earth being struck by a giant asteroid or someone being struck by lightning when winning the lottery, the stolen victory at this point would be a political event. so dire that its distant prospect is capable enough to make Democrats break into a cold sweat.
