Trump’s Michigan Poll Watchers Make Few Clear Fraud Accusations
- Campaign hoping to delay certification of vote in swing state
- Biden leads Trump by about 146,000 votes in Michigan
Pro-Trump demonstrators in Detroit, Michigan on Nov. 6.
Photographer: Emily Elconin/BloombergPresident Donald Trump’s campaign is suing to stop Michigan from certifying an election he lost by nearly three percentage points based largely on anecdotal grievances from Republican poll watchers, who say they were bullied but whose claims show no evidence of wide-scale fraud.
The campaign filed a federal lawsuit in Michigan early Wednesday that seeks to stop Trump from officially losing a race in which he trails Democrat Joe Biden by more than 146,000 votes. A similar request filed by Trump supporters was denied on Friday by a Michigan state court judge who criticized poll-watcher affidavits filed in that case as “not credible” and “rife with speculation and guess-work about sinister motives.”