Trump Election Cases Dropped: Are Supporters Already Accepting His Defeat?

Plaintiffs aligned with President Donald Trump on Monday abruptly dropped election-related lawsuits in four states, making it the latest setback in Trump’s bid to overturn the election’s outcome.

The cases filed by a group of Trump backers represented by lawyer James Bopp were part of an effort to reverse Biden’s projected win in the 2020 election. The dismissal of the recently filed lawsuits occured in swing states Biden won in the election, including Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, CNBC reported.

Bopp refused to reveal the reason behind the abrupt move due to attorney-client privilege. He also did not comment on whether he and the plaintiffs would file the same claims again.

Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee of Civil Rights Under Law, said the dismissal only confirmed that the suit was “littered with baseless allegations” seen in other post-election claims.

“There is no clear or coordinated strategy as these suits continue to crumble,” Clarke said.

“The litigants in these cases have been desperately court-shopping in search of a judge who might be sympathetic to their claims. These suits are part of a last-ditch attempt intended to promote chaos and discord while eroding public confidence in the outcome of our elections,” she added.

The recent setback is the latest in a string of defeats the Trump campaign has faced in legal battles aiming to delay certification of the president's defeat to Biden, according to The New York Times.

In Michigan, Chief Judge Timothy M. Kenny denied a petition filed by two poll challengers who alleged fraud during the vote count at the TCF Center in Detroit. According to Chris Thomas, Michigan's former state director of elections, the plaintiffs had misunderstood the process for verifying and tabulating absentee ballots.

Judge Cynthia Stephens of the Michigan Court of Claims also dismissed another lawsuit on Nov. 5 that claims poll watchers were told to change the date on ballots received. The Trump campaign appealed her ruling, but was later denied due to the lack of required attachments.

In Pennsylvania, Porter Wright — a law firm representing the Trump campaign — had filed a suit that sought to block all votes casted in four counties from being included in the state total. The lawsuit claimed that the counties had different absentee balloting practices. The law firm later asked to withdraw from the case.

The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit in Arizona, where it claimed some ballots in Maricopa County were filled out with Sharpie pens. The ink allegedly bled out and caused an “overvote.”

During the hearing for the Arizona lawsuit, one witness was asked if she had a basis to believe that her vote had not been counted, to which she answered, “Uh. I’m not sure.” The Trump campaign dropped the suit on Friday.