Rick Hessen, an election lawyer and CNN analyst, said that as the Trump campaign has come forward with its legal arguments, they have not really presented any facts or legal doctrine that had a stronger start than they did.
President Donald Trump’s campaign strategy seems to be increasingly skeptical of the vote counts, so election experts, including longtime Republican lawyer-CNN-analyst Ben Ginsberg, say states are not barred from certifying their constituents. The Electoral College does not formally elect a president until December 14, with a maximum deadline of December 8.
If that works in principle, then state legislators – especially Republicans in power in Michigan and Pennsylvania – would argue that they should make their choice for their electoral college slate by giving Trump a win against a win. Biden’s victory in more than one state. But he could not come close to giving Trump an electoral victory without much help.
“I doubt the Trump campaign’s pipe dream is to push all these issues that have never been sued in the Supreme Court before,” Jinsberg said.
“To win, Mr. Trump must prove systemic fraud with thousands of illegitimate votes. There is no evidence of that yet. Unless some emerge quickly, the chances in the presidential court will drop immediately when states begin to certify results,” Rowe wrote. , Which has long been the subject of George W. He is considered to be the mastermind of political maneuvers during Bush’s presidency.
Advocates for the Biden campaign have called the Trump campaign a lawsuit theater, and nothing more.
Pennsylvania
Key Stone State has seen the Trump campaign’s greatest efforts to present Biden’s clear victory in court in the state, and is now the most daring case of trying to block state leaders from certifying vote results.
However, top Republicans in the Pennsylvania Legislature have said the state’s presidential electorate follows the result of the popular vote.
Biden is ahead by 50,000 votes in Pennsylvania and CNN expects him to win the state.
The Trump campaign filed a federal court case Monday, raising a number of election-related complaints in Pennsylvania with little evidence. The case alleges that voters faced violations of constitutional rights, as counties adopted different approaches to processing absentee ballots and at the time observers were unable to fully observe the ballot process – similar arguments that dubious judges in other courts faced. Is doing.
The Trump campaign in the central district of Pennsylvania asked federal judge Matthew Bren to close the certificate of election results. Bran will conduct arguments and hearings for witness testimony next Tuesday and Thursday.
Other live Trump campaigns or Republican cases in the state deal with the management of absent ballots with defects or other special circumstances, such as missing envelope of secrecy, lack of address on outside envelope or temporarily amended, or ballots received after election day. U.S. on late votes Even if all the cases, including the ongoing challenge in the Supreme Court, are successful, the number of affected ballets will be a few thousand. Biden’s leadership over Trump is not enough.
After the Trump campaign election observers in Philadelphia won the ability to stay a little closer to the ballot processors, another delayed case in the state is an appeal by Democrats, which the Trump campaign uses to further its public relations efforts to cast doubt on the election process.
Michigan
The Trump campaign’s two court cases – in Michigan’s state and federal courts – seek to slow or prevent state and Wayne County, which includes the heavily Democratic Detroit, from certifying votes. Michigan officials said the election went well.
In the federal court case filed Wednesday, the Trump campaign calls on the court to push the absentee vote count in Michigan and block the state from certifying its election results.
CNN Biden is projected to be the state winner by about 3% over Trump with a lead of nearly 150,000 votes.
A Michigan court has ruled that a state-level lawsuit has already been dismissed within two days of the claimant’s claim, citing “evidence” and the Trump campaign’s missing vote count as a hearing.
At a state court hearing Wednesday, two individual plaintiffs made similar bids for the Trump campaign and asked to withhold audit dit and certificate of result.
Representing Detroit, Attorney David Fink explained to the judge at that hearing that blocking the finalization of Michigan’s vote would exclude the state from the electoral college college, kick the president’s choice in the U.S. House of Representatives, or allow the Republicans to vote. Trying to sit up.
Judge Timothy Kenny said he would announce his opinion on Friday.
Detroit attorney David Fink explained at the hearing that blocking the finalization of Michigan’s vote would exclude the state from electoral college college, initiate a presidential election in the U.S. House of Representatives, or allow the Republican-run state to elect its own legislature. Trying to sit up.
Arizona
Trump called for the campaign to block the canvas or certificate of all ballots cast face-to-face on election day in Maricopa County, the most populous county in the state of Medanico on Saturday, including Phoenix, until they can be reviewed.
Biden is leading Trump in the state with more than 12,000 votes. CNN is not projected to be the winner in the state. But the Trump campaign alleges that a review of nearly 166,000 ballots cast face-to-face on election day “will get thousands of additional votes for President Trump and other Republican candidates in the November 3, 2020 general election.”
In the lawsuit, which revived the claim that Sharpey Pen had freed voters, the campaign argued that some voters were rejected by tablet machines because of defects such as loose marks or ink spots from Sharpey Pen. The campaign is trying to make their case using statements from two voters who are skeptical but do not confirm that their vote has not been counted.
A Maricopa County election official told the court that only 180 casts could be reviewed on election day, and that there were no systemic problems with the election.
The Trump campaign has sought to delay the court hearing and demanded that the attorneys seal the identities of individuals seeking evidence at Thursday’s hearing by the Trump attorney.
Maricopa County attorneys objected.
“People have a right to know how weak the guardians’ evidence really is,” he wrote.
Earlier in the Trump campaign he took part in an Arizona lawsuit brought in by a dozen voters who accused Sharpiz of even causing the ballot problem. Eventually they dropped the lawsuit.
Georgia
Even after a count, the gap of over 1000 votes is a big and apparently uncertain distance to remove Trump. In the post-2000 counts, the average change in the number of votes has been a few hundred, according to research by the nonpartisan group Fairvot.
“Everything is a step towards the ultimate goal of a re-elected president,” Stephen Pasantino, the campaign’s legal adviser, said of the recount on Wednesday.
CNN’s Jessica Snyder, Ann’s Greer, Michael Werner and Pamela Brown contributed to this report.
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