“Trump’s legal team makes no significant progress in election fight”

Josh Gerstein sums it up:

President Donald Trump’s barrage of lawsuits related to the 2020 presidential election kicked up considerable dust on Thursday, but delivered his campaign no tangible progress in halting or slowing the slide of vote tallies away from him in key battleground states.

The flurry of litigation yielded a couple of minor victories for the president, as a state judge granted his campaign’s poll watchers closer access to ballot counting in Philadelphia and a federal court judge there brokered a deal that’s likely to let more volunteers from Trump’s campaign observe the process.

Despite mixed results, the court fights seemed to serve their intended purpose of creating an air of legal uncertainty around the election while the president and his advisers scramble to preserve a sense of viability for a reelection bid that is by objective measures growing more remote.

The performative nature of the litigation was evidenced by the campaign’s dispatching some of its most combative surrogates to sites where court fights were underway or threatened.

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