Trump Campaign Files Lawsuit
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On Wednesday, the Trump campaign announced it was pursuing court actions to halt ballot counting in Michigan and Pennsylvania, and to not count absentee ballots in Georgia that the campaign claims arrived after an Election Day deadline. While left-leaning articles highlight that Trump’s legal blitz comes after the president has made unsubstantiated claims of fraud in the election, right-leaning articles highlight that Trump campaign manager Bill Stepein claimed that they had been refused access at counting stations to observe the opening of mail-in ballots in Michigan.
A left-leaning article by The Washington Post highlights that Trump’s legal blitz comes after the president has repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims of fraud in the election. Legal experts noted that Trump can’t ask the Supreme Court to intervene in the election and stop the counting of ballots.
USA Today published a centrist article reporting that the campaign announced the Pennsylvania and Michigan lawsuits shortly before Biden was projected Wednesday afternoon to win Michigan. Trump’s legal team also filed a lawsuit in Georgia Superior Court that seeks to enforce the state’s election laws, which require late absentee ballots to be stored unopened for a set period of time and eventually destroyed along with other ballots.
A right-leaning article by The New York Post highlights that Trump campaign manager Bill Stepein claimed that they had been refused access at counting stations to observe the opening of mail-in ballots in Michigan. Although in a call earlier on Wednesday, the Biden campaign said it had the absentee ballots to clinch the 270 electoral votes needed to win, Trump and his surrogates suggested these were fake “ballot dumps.”
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Election 2020: Trump campaign files lawsuit to halt counting of Michigan ballots
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