We're 28 days out from Election Day. Here's the news that you'll want to know:
Trump campaign files Wisconsin lawsuit to challenge 220,000+ ballots. "The Trump campaign is set to file a lawsuit Tuesday morning in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court alleging that abuse of absentee voting affected 220,000 ballots in the battleground state that President-elect Joe Biden won." (National Review) • The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit with the Wisconsin Supreme Court today that will challenge more than 220,000 ballots.
• The lawsuit was expected, as President Trump previously said his campaign would challenge the recount result, tweeting that a lawsuit "will be brought after the recount is over, on Monday or Tuesday."
• As the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported: "The campaign is challenging 170,140 ballots that were cast early, 28,395 ballots cast by voters who claimed to be indefinitely confined, 17,271 ballots collected at 'Democracy in the Park' events, and 5,517 ballots for which clerks filled in missing information." (The newspaper has a good overview of each category.)
• As National Review reported: "The head of the Trump campaign’s Wisconsin legal team, former Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge Jim Troupis, admitted that Wisconsin’s ten electoral votes likely will not change the overall outcome of the election but said the campaign also sees long-term benefits of challenging the election process in the state."
• Yesterday Wisconsin certified its election results and declared Joe Biden the winner. This was after the state finished a two-county recount at the request of the Trump campaign.
Michigan state legislators holding hearings on vote-counting in presidential election. "'We can go a long way to achieving this by going straight to the top. Mr. Giuliani believes there were many problems with how this election was conducted and has alleged that there was significant fraud in Michigan,' [committee chair Rep. Matt] Hall said. 'I am glad we were able to find time to make this work with the President’s legal team.'" (WXYZ Detroit) • The Michigan Senate is hosting a hearing today -- and the Michigan House, a hearing tomorrow -- on the presidential election and vote-counting in the state.
• The Michigan Senate Oversight Committee is hearing "Testimony Regarding Absentee Ballot Counting at the TCF Center" today. Tomorrow, Rudy Giuliani will testify before a Michigan House committee.
• President Trump tweeted a livestream of the Michigan Senate hearing today.
Republicans win another US House seat -- narrowing Nancy Pelosi's majority even more. "All of the Republicans who flipped Democratic districts in 2020 are veterans, minorities, or women (in many cases two of three). Garcia, whose father immigrated to the United States from Mexico, said in May: 'I was a first-generation immigrant. My father and my grandfather came here and started from the ground up and created a great small business in the construction business. We were taught to work hard, we were taught to earn every dollar that we make, take pride in our country and be a patriot.'" (National Review) • Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA) has officially won his re-election. He won a special election for the congressional seat this spring, and he just won the general election to keep it.
• The split in the House is now 222 Democrats to 211 Republicans -- a very narrow majority of just 11 votes. There are two additional House races that haven't yet been called.
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