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Donald Trump 's legal team defending his bigPennsylvania election lawsuit had a mass exodus in the past week. - It left him with just one lawyer: Marc Scaringi, a right-wing radio host who has said litigation won't affect President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
- Rudy Giuliani and Brian Caffrey, a colleague of Scaringi's, joined the case on Tuesday just hours before a judge planned to hear it.
President Donald Trump's legal team in Pennsylvania experienced a mass exodus before a hearing on Tuesday afternoon in one of his major
On November 7, Scaringi said on his radio show that Trump's lawsuits would not change the election results, The Washington Post first reported.
"There really are no bombshells that are about to drop that would derail the Biden presidency via these lawsuits," Scaringi said, adding that "some of the lawsuits don't seem to have much evidence in substantiating their claims."
"At the end of the day, in my view, the litigation will not work," he continued. "It will not reverse this election."
—John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) November 17, 2020
The lawsuit against Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar and various Pennsylvania counties seeks to stop the state from certifying its election results, alleging irregularities in the way votes have been counted.
It's experienced numerous setbacks since Trump's campaign filed it on November 9. Five of the six lawyers who first filed the case — Carolyn McGee, Douglas Hughes, John Scott, Linda Ann Kerns, and Ronald Hicks — have abandoned it over the past week, according to court filings reviewed by Insider.
Three of them left on Sunday night, just before the Trump campaign submitted a heavily revised edition that dropped many of its original claims about election observers.
Brian Caffrey, one of Scaringi's colleagues at his law firm, filed a motion to join the case on Tuesday morning. Joining him was Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, who is reportedly leading the campaign's multistate effort to fight the election results. Judge Matthew William Brann approved their requests later Tuesday.
The lawsuit is one of more than 20 that the Trump campaign and other Republican groups have filed to challenge the election results. They are unlikely to succeed. As of Tuesday, President-elect Joe Biden led in Pennsylvania by about 75,000 votes, far more than the 14,000 votes the Trump campaign sought to throw out in its lawsuit even before it was scaled back.
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- The Trump campaign dropped a major part of its election lawsuit regarding its claims about observers in Pennsylvania
- Trump's lawyers withdrew from representing his campaign in its biggest Pennsylvania election lawsuit one day before the hearing
- Republicans have won just one out of nearly two dozen lawsuits they've filed since Election Day
- Trump's big new election lawsuit alleges voter fraud potentially happened in 2 Pennsylvania counties. Both overwhelmingly voted for him.