A top Joe Biden campaign adviser criticized the press for giving too much attention to legal challenges from Republicans and President Trump’s campaign related to counting ballots and other election-related lawsuits.
Bob Bauer, former White House counsel during the Obama administration, said in an Election Day briefing on Tuesday that their efforts receive “increasingly disproportionate press attention.”
“They’re designed to generate the appearance of a cloud over the election,” Bauer said. “They have no merit, and they do not deserve the press attention that they’re generating.”
Republicans suffered defeats on Monday in challenges to how late Nevada can count mail-in votes and an effort to challenge 127,000 ballots in Texas cast at drive-through polling sites.
“The attempt of these lawyers to come in into the 11th hour with specious claims,” Bauer said, “is doomed to failure.”
The Biden campaign is pleased with Tuesday’s election administration.
“We’re feeling, at this point, very good about the way the election’s running. We’re feeling very comfortable,” Bauer said. “What is most striking today,” he added, is that “polling places [are] open, election officials [are] driving a process that is a fair and inclusive process and affording our voters their constitutional right to vote.”
In a briefing on Monday, Bauer accused “Trump train” car caravans of intentionally intimidating voters and threatened that those Trump supporters participating might be prosecuted.
