President Trump and his fellow Republicans have strong feelings about the massive voter fraud they believe robbed him of his rightful reelection to a second term. They feel strongly that it definitely happened and that it was really, really bad voter fraud in different states run by both Republicans and Democrats. They feel so strongly about it that they filed dozens of lawsuits in five different states based primarily on the super strong strength of those feelings. But judges from both political parties in all five states, while appreciative of the mighty and powerful strength of the Republicans’ feelings on the matter, have been asking the plaintiffs to present evidence to support those feelings.
But the evidence has been underwhelming to judges, who tend to have training in legal matters. A Trump campaign lawsuit filed in Arizona featured sworn affidavits that included the sentence “I believe my vote for Donald J. Trump and Michael Pence was not counted.” However, when asked under cross-examination in court, “Do you have any reason to believe your vote wasn’t counted?” witnesses replied “No.” Trump campaign lawyer on the case Kory Langhoffer helpfully offered that “This is not about fraud,” even though President Trump is shrieking fraud on Twitter every day and his howling Arizona minions are on the streets with “Stop the Steal” signs seemingly at odds with Langhoffer’s subdued courtroom statement.
Continuing with the no fraud theme, Trump campaign lawyer Jonathan Goldstein, when asked by Judge Richard Haaz in Pennsylvannia, “Are you claiming there is any fraud in connection with these 592 disputed ballots?” replied, “To my knowledge at present, no.”
But the Republicans made their biggest splash in the courtroom in Michigan where they unveiled 230 pages of sworn affidavits from poll watchers alleging irregularities in the city of Detroit, including a loud public address system, mean looks from poll workers, a big guy who seemed intimidating, and too many votes for the Democratic candidate in a predominantly African-American city where Biden won 94 percent of the vote. When asked if Republican poll watchers had attended a walk-through training session of ballot counting procedures in October, the plaintiffs’ lawyers said they had not.
The courtroom debacles have not daunted Republicans’ very strong feelings about voter fraud, however, and they are sure to continue pouring out their hearts in courts throughout the five states for the forseeable future.