GOP Lawyers: Trump’s Lawsuits Are Flimsier Than a Hanging Chad
Donald Trump’s last-ditch barrage of election lawsuits, which he touted again in an falsehood-laden national address Thursday, are “baseless” and “absurd,” amounting to little more than a hopeless effort to confuse voters about a contest he has already lost.
Or at least that’s what veteran GOP lawyers, none of whom were Trump supporters but who have served Republican presidents or helped candidates prevail in litigation against an overmatched Democratic Party over the years, told The Daily Beast.
Trump’s campaign spent Thursday battling to overrule COVID-19 restrictions that kept its official observers from getting nearer than 25 feet to ballot-talliers in Philadelphia, a key city whose votes seemed like they might deal a death blow to his candidacy. He even secured an order that briefly paused the count as city officials weighed whether and how to adapt their operations in the Pennsylvania Convention Center. But the count proceeded after the city appealed the move, and a federal judge declined to get involved Thursday evening.
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