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In Arizona, a state won by Biden, Republican members of the Arizona Senate promoted Trump's false claims of election fraud. In mid-December 2020, Eddie Farnsworth, Chairman of the State Senate Judiciary Committee, claimed that "tampering" or "fraud" might have marred the election, despite the testimony given by election officials, attorneys ...
Trump claimed to have won the election, [2] [3] [4] and made many claims of election fraud. [5] By December 11, 2020, 126 out of 196 Republican members of the House backed a lawsuit filed in the United States Supreme Court supported by nineteen Republican state attorneys general seeking to subvert the election and overturn the election results. [6]
In April 2020, Biden predicted that Trump would try to delay the election, saying he "is gonna try to kick back the election somehow, come up with some rationale why it can't be held". [ 178 ] [ 179 ] In May, Jared Kushner did not rule out delaying the election, saying "I’m not sure I can commit one way or the other". [ 180 ]
In late December 2020, Trump "attempted to use the Justice Department" to lie about election fraud, "thus giving the Defendant's lies the backing of the federal government". On December 22, Jeffrey Clark went to the White House to meet with Trump without telling the Justice Department he was doing so, violating a Justice Department policy meant ...
Election experts have found that election fraud is vanishingly rare, not systemic, and not at levels that could have impacted a presidential election. [6] [7] [8] In response to Donald Trump's 2016 claims of millions of fraudulent votes, the Brennan Center in 2017 evaluated voter fraud data and arrived at a fraud rate of 0.0003–0.0025%. [9]
The Trump campaign filed the most post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. It was a strategic decision to file lawsuits in these states that were too close to call during the night of election day and remained uncalled ...
In direct response to election changes related to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 United States presidential election in Arizona, and "Sharpiegate"; the Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign launched numerous lawsuits contesting the election processes of Arizona. All of these were either dismissed or dropped.
CNBC cited voter intimidation as a bigger concern for analysts than voter fraud ahead of the 2020 elections. [18] According to The Washington Post, voting rights advocates worry that the rhetoric about noncitizen voting could have a 'chilling effect' on Latino citizens and naturalized immigrants exercising their right to vote. [391]