WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump's legal campaign to overturn his 2020 election defeat shrank further with the narrowing of a key Pennsylvania lawsuit and the retreat of supporters who had sued in four battleground states.
The broad pullback follows several major courtroom defeats last week and highlights the difficulty lawyers are having in backing up Mr Trump's claims of a"rigged" election. Even if it succeeds, the revised Pennsylvania suit, which faces a hearing on Tuesday on the state's motion to dismiss, may not challenge enough ballots to flip a state that Mr Biden is currently carrying by more than 68,000 votes.
A number of suits making similar claims were dismissed on Friday by county courts in Philadelphia and its suburbs, with judges saying the Trump campaign and its allies were baselessly asserting errors where none existed. The state has said there were not enough ballots at issue in those suits to change the outcome of the race.
"We are still arguing that 682,479 ballots were counted illegally, in secret," Tim Murtaugh, the campaign's communications director, said in a statement on Monday."Our poll watchers were denied meaningful access to watch the vote counting and we still incorporate that claim in our complaint." Like the Trump campaign's original Pennsylvania complaint, four lawsuits filed last week by plaintiffs associated with conservative group True the Vote claimed widespread fraud in Democratic-leaning counties. The suits in effect asked federal courts to block certification of election results in Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia and Pennsylvania unless all votes cast in those states' largest cities and counties were invalidated.
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