President Trump’s reelection campaign is planning new rallies as part of a 30-day legal and media blitz contesting battleground vote counts.
With returns expected to conclude over the coming days, weeks of fraught recounts could lie ahead as Trump and the Republican National Committee allege voter fraud in several key states.
Four Trump advisers told Axios on Sunday that they plan to showcase the obituaries of dead people, who the campaign says voted in the presidential election, as evidence of voter fraud.
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A media operation spearheaded by Trump 2020 communications director Tim Murtaugh will continue a “campaign-style” media onslaught with press briefings, media appearances by surrogates, and other messaging efforts.
And a legal team, featuring Trump 2020 campaign manager Bill Stepien, his deputy Justin Clark, and senior advisers Jason Miller and David Bossie, is ready to introduce field teams, including Trump 2016 transition Kory Langhofer in Arizona and trial attorney Ronald Hicks in Pennsylvania.
Hicks’s Republican National Lawyers Association biography states that he was the lead counsel in a 2003 case that caused 56 absentee ballots to be invalidated, securing the election of a Republican state Supreme Court candidate by a 28-vote margin out of 2.25 million cast.
Team Trump announced on Sunday that Rep. Doug Collins, a four-term Georgia Republican, would take point in his home state, where he recently lost a bid for U.S. Senate.
An attorney and close Trump ally, Collins said in a statement that he expected to uncover “evidence of improperly harvested ballots,” among other voting issues, that would swing the race for Trump.
A bid to dissuade Trump from the fight is also underway, Axios reported Monday.
Speaking to the Washington Examiner, one former senior White House official called the effort “pointless and toothless,” adding that “at this point, unless they have a concrete filing or complaint in the next week, they are going to need to move along.”
The campaign has filed a slew of lawsuits since Election Day in key states and is fundraising heavily, calling on supporters via texts and emails to give to an Election Defense Fund.
“This nonsense is going to start to intrude on the Georgia Senate race,” this source said. “It’s one thing to lose the presidency. It would be a lot worse if he took the Senate with him.”
