Trump Asks Supreme Court To Let Him Join Widely Scorned Texas Election Lawsuit

President Trump is trying to overturn the results of the election that he lost to Joe Biden.

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Election experts scoffed this week when Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he would be filing a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against four key states in an attempt to block presidential electors from finalizing Joe Biden’s election victory.

But now President Trump and 17 states he carried are joining that effort.

Officials in the states targeted in the suit — Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — derided it as nothing more than an unfounded publicity stunt.