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    Trump Launches Broad Legal Gambit Paired With Public Doubt-Raising On Results

    The Trump campaign wants to cease or pause ballot-counting in key states. Meanwhile, he and supporters continued years of deliberate denigration of the integrity of U.S. elections.
    by Philip Ewing Nov 05, 2020 3 minutes
    Supporters of US President Donald Trump try to enter the room where absentee ballots for the 2020 general election are being counted at TCF Center on November 4 in Detroit.

    Updated at 12:09 p.m. ET

    President Trump's campaign has unleashed a multi-pronged legal offensive directed at states where vote-counting continued into Thursday based on unsupported allegations about fraud and irregularities in the election.

    Lawyers for the Trump campaign sought intervention from the United States Supreme Court and also filed suit in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada seeking remedies they hoped would help their prospects in those places. In some instances, that included requests for counting to cease altogether or at least pause for a time.

    In Wisconsin, the

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