Top Trump ally Rudy Giuliani said the president’s reelection campaign would “quite possibly” mount a national legal challenge to the vote count, amid a slew of battleground lawsuits already underway.
Senior advisers and top campaign officials gathered in Philadelphia on Wednesday as Team Trump announced that it was suing to stop mail-in ballots from being counted in Michigan, which has been called for Joe Biden, and Pennsylvania, where the president leads.
“So, we came here today, and we met with all our lawyers,” the president’s son Eric Trump said in a news conference.
Giuliani added: “We are going to continue the lawsuit here, we’re going to bring a second one, and then, we’re going to bring a federal lawsuit. And we’re gonna take a very good look at whether we bring this nationally.” This was to ensure “your vote doesn’t get wiped out” by “fraudulent, meaningless paper ballots that no one gets to observe.”
Trump officials have objected to ballot counting rules, including in Pennsylvania, where they have filed a lawsuit to “stop Democrat election officials from hiding the ballot counting and processing from our Republican poll observers — observers whose only job is to make sure every valid ballot is counted and counted once.”
“We certainly are going to bring it here and in Wisconsin — quite possibly, we’ll do a national lawsuit and really expose the corruption of the Democratic Party,” Giuliani said. The campaign is requesting a recount in Wisconsin.
Trump is fighting to secure Pennsylvania’s prized electoral votes, 20 in all, as his path to winning the Electoral College looks increasingly tenuous.
“This is a concerted effort by the crooked Democrats. They don’t care about the people — they’re deplorables,” Giuliani said, referencing a remark by Hillary Clinton during her 2016 race against Trump.
“My father is up by almost half a million votes in this state, with 86% reported, and plenty of red counties left to go,” said Eric Trump.
“The Democrats know that the only way that they can win this election is to cheat in Pennsylvania,” he added, pointing to “precincts still coming in from Trump Country.”
He said the campaign had already declared a victory in the state, which Trump 2020 campaign manager Bill Stepien announced earlier in the day as thousands of votes remained to be counted.
A team led by White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and senior campaign adviser Justin Clark is mobilizing for a recount war, Business Insider reported.
Campaign officials began preparing for a legal battle in the event of a contested election earlier this year.
