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Trump campaign drops suit that claimed 700,000 illegal votes in Pennsylvania while POTUS says ‘I WON ELECTION'

The suit was a key part of the Republican leader's attempt to stop the state from certifying its election results

President Donald Trump's campaign, on Monday, November 16, dropped its lawsuit claiming 700,000 ballots were illegally cast in Pennsylvania, reports state. The suit was a key part of the Republican leader's attempt to stop the state from certifying its election results. The president, despite the decision of its campaign, has continued to make unsubstantiated claims of election fraud and has continued to falsely insist that he won the 2020 presidential elections.

Trump's legal team, ahead of a Tuesday hearing for the lawsuit, withdrew its attempt to have 682,479 mail-in and absentee votes voided. The Trump campaign's attempt was based on claims that the votes in the state were processed without the representatives of the president being present there. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, however, had refuted the claims, saying ballot watchers from all parties were permitted to watch the process and that "any insinuation otherwise is a lie." The state is scheduled to certify its election result on November 23.

Trump and his campaign's allegation against the state came as multiple major news outlets called Pennsylvania in President-elect Joe Biden's favor last week, shortly after the Election Day. The president, however, has refused to concede and has instead launched multiple lawsuits in various battleground states.

Even as Trump appeared to acknowledge defeat on Sunday, November 15, tweeting that Biden won, he added that the Democrat won because of election rigging. The president did not provide any evidence to back his claims. Trump tweeted: "He won because the Election was Rigged." He later wrote: "He only won in the eyes of the FAKE NEWS MEDIA. I concede NOTHING!"

"Why does the Fake News Media continuously assume that Joe Biden will ascend to the Presidency, not even allowing our side to show, which we are just getting ready to do, how badly shattered and violated our great Constitution has been in the 2020 Election," Trump continued, adding: "I WON THE ELECTION!" The president's unsubstantiated tweets have been consistently flagged by Twitter for containing misleading information.

The president, ever since the breakout of the pandemic, has claimed that mail-in ballots are vulnerable to voter fraud. He, however, has not provided any evidence to support his claims. Part of his lawsuit in Pennsylvania alleged that a number of Democrat-voting counties permitted voters to "cure" defective ballots, while other Republican-voting counties did not. Curing is a process that allows voters to come to a polling station and fix problems with their ballots, like voter signature or missing inner "secrecy envelope."

A Democratic National Committee (DNC) lawyer, Cliff Levine, said that although the committee was not certain how many voters were permitted to cure their ballots, the number would be far below the 70,000 vote lead Biden has in the state. "The numbers aren't even close to the margin between the two candidates, not even close," Levine said, according to The Sun. "They really should be suing the counties that didn't allow [voters] to make corrections. The goal should be making sure every vote counts," he added.