Outgoing US President Donald Trump suffered a triple of legal setbacks on Friday, even as he continues to make his case that the election was ‘rigged’ and that he will prevail.
The latest
bad news for the president came in Michigan.
There, a
judge denied the Trump campaign’s request to stop the counting of ballots in Wayne
County, which includes Detroit.
In addition
to ruling against Trump, Wayne County Circuit Judge Timothy Kenny called the
campaign’s case ‘not credible.’
According to
Judge Kenny: ‘No formal challenges were filed.
“However,
sinister, fraudulent motives were ascribed to the process and the city of
Detroit.
“Plaintiff’s
interpretation of events is incorrect and not credible.’
In Arizona,
Trump’s lawyers abandoned a suit seeking a hand count of ballots after a series
of networks called the race for Biden.
Biden’s lead
exceeds the number of outstanding ballots now, and dropping the suit
acknowledges the state will be in Biden’s column.
And in
Pennsylvania, a law firm representing the Trump campaign in its claims of
fraud, withdrew from the case.
The Ohio-based
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur had brought the suit claiming Pennsylvania’s
‘two-tiered’ voting system was illegal.
Its expansive
case called into question millions of votes cast by Pennsylvania residents who
voted by mail in accordance with state law.
The firm
faced a backlash for its legal work from the Lincoln Project, a group of
Republicans that worked to defeat Trump, for seeking to ‘overturn the will of
the American people.’
Amid the
legal retreats and defeats, Trump suffered more glaring losses on the electoral
map.
TV networks
on Friday afternoon called the closely contested state of Georgia for Democrat
Joe Biden.
This took his
electoral college votes to 306.
However, the
same networks projected Trump to be the winner in North Carolina, giving him
232 votes.
The tally
exactly mirrored in reverse the 2016 election result between Trump and Democrat
Hillary Clinton.
Biden has now
effectively flipped almost all the battleground states won by Trump.
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