Trump's election lawsuits continue to crumble | First Thing
by Molly Blackall from US news | The Guardian on (#5AE7X)
The president's campaign team has withdrawn a key part of its legal challenge to the election result in Pennsylvania. Plus: Obama won't be in Biden's cabinet
Good morning. The Trump campaign has dropped a central claim in its legal challenge to the election result in Pennsylvania, which formed a key part of Joe Biden's win. In the run-up to a hearing on Tuesday, the president's legal team withdrew its claim that more than 680,000 absentee ballots were illegally processed without campaign representatives watching. However, the campaign team still hopes to block Pennsylvania, with its 20 electoral college votes, from confirming a victory for Biden.
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