ATLANTA • Mr Donald Trump's campaign said it has filed a lawsuit in Georgia state court seeking to invalidate the presidential election results there, the latest in a series of legal challenges aimed at reversing his loss that have so far failed.
The Trump campaign said in a statement on Friday that its new lawsuit would include sworn statements from Georgia residents alleging fraud.
Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, like Mr Trump, and other state officials have said repeatedly they have found no evidence of widespread fraud in the Nov 3 election won by Democrat Joe Biden.
Mr Trump's team and various individuals backing him have suffered a string of legal defeats around the country, including in cases filed in Nevada and Wisconsin that sought court orders to reverse those states' election results.
President-elect Biden won the election with 306 electoral college votes - against the 270 required - to Mr Trump's 232.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court in a 4-3 decision on Friday declined to act on a case that sought to have the court nullify the presidential election in the state and pave the way for the state legislature to choose Wisconsin's 10 presidential electors. "Such a move would appear to be unprecedented in American history," Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn wrote.
While Mr Trump keeps fighting the outcome of the election, some of the biggest names in American politics jumped into the fiercely contested run-offs for two Georgia Senate seats on Friday.
Mr Trump was due to visit the state yesterday to campaign for the two Republican incumbents - David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.
Vice-President Mike Pence and former president Barack Obama held duelling events to underscore the vital stakes in the special Jan 5 election, which will determine who controls the US Senate and, by extension, define the early days of Mr Biden's presidency.
Mr Obama appeared virtually at a turn-out-the-vote event for Democrat Jon Ossoff, who is running against Mr Perdue, and the Rev Raphael Warnock, Ms Loeffler's opponent.
Mr Pence - with Mr Perdue and Ms Loeffler by his side - received a Covid-19 briefing at the Atlanta headquarters of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and said later at a rally for the Republicans that "we're going to save the Senate, and then we're going to save America".
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