Listen to this article

The re-election campaign of President Donald Trump has removed controversial claims it made in a lawsuit filed on Sunday in Pennsylvania. Trump campaign previously alleged that its representatives were unable to watch the processing of 682,749 ballots. The claims were a key component of the lawsuit and had been amplified without evidence by the president and his inner circle. The state lawyers have since called for the lawsuit to be dismissed. They said it featured no plausible claim for relief on any legal theory in a statement provided to the court. President Trump has yet to concede while failing to provide credible evidence of mass voter fraud after official projections indicated President-elect Joe Biden was the victor of the 2020 US elections.

President has meanwhile promoted false claims surrounding the results of the election and repeatedly lied about its outcome. He posted statements on Twitter and Facebook that had to be censored on both platforms for their inaccuracies. Trump made the allegation that his campaign’s representatives were unable to watch the vote count quickly stoked Trump’s supporters into hosting large gatherings outside of ballot processing centers after Election Day demanding access to the facilities. The remaining allegations focused on an argument with the claim removed from the president’s lawsuit. It described that some voters in Democratic stronghold counties had an opportunity to cure their vote ahead of Election Day. It was a process in which mistakes can be corrected in order for the ballot to be correctly processed.

Moreover, an attorney representing the Democratic National Committee informed a news outlet that the numbers aren’t even close to the margin between the two candidates, not even close when assessing the number of impacted ballots. A lawyer Cliff Levine said, “They really should be suing the counties that didn’t allow (voters) to make corrections. The goal should be making sure every vote counts”. A deluge of misinformation among the right has enveloped social media in the days following the election, with protestors holding stop the steal rallies and demanding recounts in critical battleground states where the president lost to Biden. However, there is no evidence of stolen votes. The Department of Homeland Security also defended the election from false allegations of rigging.