Trump’s last-ditch efforts to overturn results fail to make dent in Biden victories
It has been two weeks exactly since Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election, and since then, Republicans and Trump’s campaign have made multiple attempts to take the election results to the courts and woo state Republican officials into helping them subvert the votes of their constituents.

But the effort has largely failed to make meaningful headway with any of the lawsuits in key swing states, and state officials have mostly stuck by the original counts. In just the past few days, Trump’s dream of overturning the results of the election has significantly narrowed after results were certified in Georgia and Arizona’s largest county in Biden’s favor on Friday.

The states were two of six that the Trump campaign and Republicans were targeting in efforts to push slim margins that favored Biden over Trump. Their haphazard plans have fallen apart as judges across the country halted legal challenges that cried fraud in an election that experts and public officials have said showed no evidence of widespread fraud.

Three other swing states, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania, are set to join Georgia in certifying their results as their certification deadlines approach next week. Arizona and Wisconsin, the last of the state’s targeted by the Trump campaign, have certification deadlines the week after.

On Saturday the Trump team said it was filing a petition for a full recount in Georgia, but its efforts suffered another blow when a federal judge ruled that Pennsylvania officials could certify election results that showed Biden winning the state by more than 80,000 votes.

US middle district judge Matthew Brann in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, turned down the request for an injunction by Trump’s campaign, spoiling the incumbent’s hopes of overturning the results of the presidential contest.

“This Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations,” Brann wrote.

Brann added that he “has no authority to take away the right to vote of even a single person, let alone millions of citizens”.

After the judgement, Pennsylvania attorney general, Josh Shapiro, said on Twitter: “I’ve been telling everyone who will listen: these suits are baseless.”

Republican Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania said Trump had “exhausted all plausible legal options” to challenge the result in Pennsylvania. He called on Trump to concede the election and congratulated Biden on his victory.

Trump’s lawyers said they would appeal the ruling, with the hopes of quickly reaching the US supreme court.
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