Washington: President Donald Trump’s campaign filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to stop the counting of votes in Clark County, Nev. — and lost challenges in Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Campaign officials announced the Nevada lawsuit in Las Vegas.
Trump is trailing in the Nevada ballot count to former Vice President Joe Biden by about 12,000 votes, according to an update from state officials Thursday. At stake is the state’s six electoral votes.
“We warned for the last few weeks, where we could end up in a situation where Nevada decides the presidency. We warned that Democrats changed this election system, they gave us mail-in ballots,” said Adam Lexalt, Nevada’s former attorney general and Trump’s state campaign chair.
The suit seeks to block votes of “thousands of people” who moved out of Clark County during the pandemic, Lexalt said. He said thousands of mail ballots were found in trash cans and apartment buildings, but provided no evidence.
“We are asking for emergency relief … injunctive relief. We’re asking a judge due to all of these irregularities to stop the counting of improper votes.”
Richard Grennell, former acting national intelligence chief, claimed that non-residents have voted. Nevada has a minimum 30-day residency requirement to vote.
In Pennsylvania, two cases regarding observation of ballot counting were decided Thursday. a federal judge ruled Thursday evening that Republican observers were being treated fairly when they asked to watch ballot canvassing in Philadelphia.
Judge Paul Diamond of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dismissed an emergency motion and ruled that Republican observers were being treated fairly when they asked to watch ballot canvassing in Philadelphia.
