Wisconsin government responds to Trump campaign's lawsuit challenging 220,000+ ballots.

"Attorneys for [Wisconsin Governor] Evers, as well as lawyers from the state Department of Justice representing the Wisconsin Elections Commission, urged the court not to accept original jurisdiction of the case, saying it must start in lower courts." (Associated Press)

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• The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit with the Wisconsin Supreme Court yesterday to challenge more than 220,000 ballots, and late last night, the Wisconsin state government responded.

• According to Associated Press, "the Democratic National Committee and Biden’s electors are also attempting to intervene in the lawsuit."

• Before the content of the lawsuit is examined, there's a question of which court should hear it -- and whether the Trump campaign can go straight to the Wisconsin Supreme Court with its lawsuit (as it did) or whether it has to go through lower courts first (as is normally done).

As the Associated Press reported, with emphasis ours: "In Wisconsin, Trump wants to skip lower courts, saying in his lawsuit that there isn’t time to go through the normal process due to the looming Dec. 14 date when electors will gather to cast the state’s 10 Electoral College votes. The state Supreme Court could deny Trump’s request to hear the case, forcing it to lower courts, which would likely kill it."

• 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."

• Earlier, 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 house holding hearing on election tonight; Rudy Giuliani will testify.

"Rudy Giuliani, the attorney leading the charge in President Donald Trump’s legal attack on the November election results, will testify before the Michigan House Oversight Committee this evening." (WOOD TV8)

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• The Michigan House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing at 6pm tonight on the presidential election and ballot-counting in the state. Rudy Giuliani is expected to testify; he will offer a briefing with the state GOP chair beforehand.

• Yesterday a Michigan Senate committee held a seven-hour hearing on the election and ballot-counting. President Trump tweeted a livestream of the hearing proceedings, too.

Sen. Chuck Schumer blames NC candidate's reported affairs for losing Senate majority.

"Axios reported Tuesday that Schumer 'has made the zipper comment on numerous calls' to donors in blaming Cunningham's personal drama for his narrow loss in North Carolina to incumbent Sen. Thom Tillis (R), after Cunningham admitted to exchanging sexually charged texts with a woman who is not his wife." (The Blaze)

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• While House Democrats blame their messaging, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is blaming the party candidates -- specifically Cal Cunningham, who lost the North Carolina Senate race to the incumbent, Sen. Thom Tillis.

• As the Blaze reported, near the end of the campaign, Cunningham "admitted to exchanging sexually charged texts with a woman who is not his wife." Later, he "was also hit with allegations of engaging in separate physical affairs with the alleged mistress and another unnamed woman."

• The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee -- Senate Democrats' campaign arm -- continued their support of Cunningham. He had previously been favored to win, and by the time the news broke, it was too late for him to be removed from the ballot under state law.