World News – United States – Trump campaign challenges 10,000 votes in Nevada, where Biden leads by 7,600

The Trump campaign plans to file a lawsuit in Nevada on Wednesday against the mail-in ballots as Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump on the state battlefield, Fox News reports, marking the latest of a string of lawsuits the campaign has brought in battlefield states as Trump’s path to re-election based on the vote count grows narrower

A Clark County election worker scans the mailed ballots to the Clark County Election Department on October 20, 2020 in North Las Vegas, Nevada (Photo by Ethan Miller / Getty Images)

The lawsuit, which was first reported by Fox and confirmed to CBS News by Nevada GOP President Michael McDonald, allegedly – at least 10,000 people voted in [Nevada] , although they no longer live thereat ????

The trial is expected to be officially announced at a press conference Thursday in Nevada with officials including McDonald’s and former acting director of national intelligence Ric Grenell

Trump has frequently baselessly attacked postal voting as susceptible to fraud, despite evidence showing that such electoral fraud is extremely rare, and Michael Georg Link, a German lawmaker who heads the international observation delegation ‘US election, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the group had examined Trump’s allegations of voter fraud by mail and found no rule violationsat ????

7,647 That’s the number of votes Biden is currently leading in Nevada, starting at 11 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday morning, with 493% of the vote versus 487% for Trump

Although the Trump campaign is supposed to challenge the ballots of voters no longer living in Nevada, several of the most prominent members of the Trump administration are said to have voted themselves using addresses to which they do. not or not to live Vice President Mike Pence voted by mail in Indiana using the address of the governor’s mansion of Indiana, from which he moved in 2016, and press secretary Kayleigh McEnany reportedly voted away using his parents Florida address, although residing in Washington, DC and holding a New Jersey driver’s license

The scheduled trial in Nevada is one of a series of lawsuits the Trump campaign launched in the days following election day as the race increasingly favored Biden, including lawsuits targeting the postal ballots in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia The Trump campaign had also previously continued the postal counting process in Clark County, Nevada, a Democratic stronghold that is expected to favor Biden.This lawsuit is currently in the Nevada Supreme Court, after a lower court ruled against the Trump campaign and said they had « no proof » to support their demands The Trump team has increasingly escalated its legal challenges in the aftermath of election day as the vote counting process dragged on in battlefield states, and Trump has said he wants that the Supreme Court help him win the elections

Experts have been skeptical of Team Trump’s legal strategy, casting doubt on GOP legal claims and how much the wave of lawsuits could actually help Trump in the election – This kind of desperate litigation to change the election results, it is such a shame that it has come to this, but it seems rather unlikely to succeed, – Adav Noti, senior director of trial litigation for the legal center of the campaign, told Al Jazeera, calling on state lawsuits to affect the vote count a â € “ Hail Marieune ???? The legal blitz is likely only to continue, however, with Politico reporting that the Biden campaign is activating lawyers in swing states to prepare for a possible protracted legal battle.

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