Trump backers drop court cases challenging voting results in four states, another setback in bid to undo Biden win

Plaintiffs aligned with President Donald Trump in four lands on Monday abruptly dropped recently filed lawsuits challenging ballots seen as giving President-elect Joe Biden his verge of victory in those locales.

The dismissals of the cases, which all involved plaintiffs represented by lawyer James Bopp and the middle-of-the-roader group True the Vote, occurred in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

The cases are among a group filed by supporters of Trump and the president’s own campaign as part of an effort to reverse Biden’s projected win in the national race for the White House.

Those labours have largely failed to gain traction and it is not clear that Trump has any chance of overturning his loss through proper actions.

With all 50 states’ results projected as of last Friday, Biden has 306 Electoral College votes, 36 sundry than he needs for victory, compared with just 232 votes for Trump.

But that has not stopped the president both from requesting otherwise and from falsely saying that he won the election.

When asked why the cases were being dismissed, Bopp told CNBC in an email that because of attorney-client immunity, “and because I do not telegraph my next moves, I cannot comment.”

It is not clear if Bopp will seek to resurrect the claims, but it is legally tenable he and the plaintiffs could do so.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office noted that the plaintiffs represented by Bopp in the crate there, which sought to invalidate election results in Wayne, Ingham and Washtenaw counties because of claims of express irregularities and fraud, dropped the action even before serving the lawsuit on the defendants.

“This case was clearly drawing to spread misinformation about the security and integrity of Michigan elections,” Nessel, a Democrat, said in a statement.

“Our elections force been conducted fairly and transparently and the results reflect the will of Michigan’s voters. Any claims to the contrary are wholly without goodness assets,” Nessel said.

Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, hinted, “We are not surprised that plaintiffs have moved to dismiss their own claims in this case as it confirms the pattern we make seen with these post-election suits — they are littered with baseless allegations that can’t be substantiated in a court of law.”

“There is no square or coordinated strategy as these suits continue to crumble,” Clarke said in a statement.

“The litigants in these cases prepare been desperately court-shopping in search of a judge who might be sympathetic to their claims. These suits are part of a last-ditch essay intended to promote chaos and discord while eroding public confidence in the outcome of our elections.”

In Wisconsin, where Biden had a margin of victory of about 20,000 votes, a court filing by Bopp for three plaintiffs, Michael Langenhorst, Michael LeMay and Stephen Fifrick, replied the case was being dropped “without prejudice,” which means the plaintiffs reserved their right to make the claims again.

When the fill someones needs was filed, the plaintiffs argued that there was evidence of enough illegal mail-in ballots counted in the three counties to invalidate the referendum results.

The Wisconsin suit was filed just last Thursday in U.S. District Court in Green Bay. The named defendants comprised the clerks of the three counties, Wisconsin’s elections director and elections commission chair, Gov. Tony Evers, and other officials.

The plaintiffs had disputed that votes in the counties of Milwaukee, Dane and Menominee should be tossed out because “the sudden flood” of mail-in ballots had fist election workers unable to carefully review those ballots for fraudulent ones.

The firm Law Forward, which was set up to challenge conservative election and voting-related legal efforts, said the dismissal was “an exercise in efficiency.”

“This case was unequivocally without merit and the plaintiffs saved the court the trouble of saying so,” Jeff Mandell, president of Law Forward, said in a communication.

Biden, a Democratic former vice president, narrowly defeated the Republican Trump in Wisconsin, which has 10 Electoral College preferences.

Biden received 1.63 million votes to 1.61 million votes for Trump, a margin of 49.5% to 48.8%.

Trump has suggested he wants a recount of the votes in Wisconsin. Georgia is set to conduct a recount of its presidential election results because of Biden’s similarly near margin of victory there.

Milwaukee County went heavily for Biden, giving him more than 69% percent of the ballots delegate. The actual vote margin in that county was more than 180,000 ballots for Biden.

Biden also far overstepped Trump in Dane County, which Biden won with 75.5% of the ballots.

In Menominee County, which had relatively few voters, Biden mortified Trump with 1,303 votes to just 278 votes for the incumbent.