Donald Trump's failing, month-long fight against election

A judge on Friday threw out a Republican bid to undo Biden's victory in Arizona, concluding the state's GOP chief failed to prove fraud or misconduct in her challenge of election results in metro Phoenix. The judge also noted the evidence presented at trial wouldn't reverse Trump's loss in the state.Judge Warner wrote ``there is no evidence that the inaccuracies were intentional or part of a fraudulent scheme. They were mistakes. And given both the small number of duplicate ballots and the low error rate, the evidence does not show any impact on the outcome.''

Trump has lost repeatedly in Pennsylvania, collecting a series of stinging rebukes from Republican-appointed judges. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld a district judge's dismissal of a key lawsuit argued in an error-filled performance by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
``Voters, not lawyers, choose the president. Ballots, not briefs, decide elections,'' wrote Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, nominated by Trump.Trump's lawyers have vowed to ask for review from the U.S. Supreme Court anyway.

Six cases brought by Trump and Republican allies in Michigan have either been rejected or dropped. On Wednesday, Giuliani appeared at a public meeting with lawmakers and urged activists to pressure, even threaten, the GOP-controlled Legislature to ``step up'' and award the state's 16 electoral votes to Trump despite Biden's 154,000-vote victory. A Michigan appeals court turned down an appeal Friday from Trump's campaign in a challenge to how absentee ballots were handled in Detroit and other issues.

The state's Supreme Court on Thursday refused to hear Trump's lawsuit seeking to overturn his loss in the battleground state. In a divided decision, the court didn't rule on the merits of the claims but said the case must first wind its way through lower courts. Trump wants to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots in the state's two biggest Democratic counties, alleging irregularities in the way absentee ballots were administered. In urging the Supreme Court to hear the case, Trump's lawyers said they didn't have enough time to start in a lower court. Trump's attorney Jim Troupis said he would immediately file the case in circuit court and expected to be back before the Supreme Court ``very soon.''
The Wisconsin Supreme Court also declined Friday to hear a lawsuit brought by a conservative group over Trump's loss.