Election battles are being waged at the ballot box and in the courtroom.
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🗓️ 25 October 2024
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But winning doesn't only happen at the ballot box, and the results of this election are already being litigated in court.
Trump and his allies filed a slew of lawsuits alleging widespread fraud. These efforts failed. But four years later, they are already trying to employ the same strategies again.
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| 0:00.0 | The presidential race is cracking like a hickory fire here, couldn't be much closer. |
| 0:06.6 | 121 for George Bush, 119 for Al Gore. |
| 0:11.5 | NPR projects that Barack Obama will win the White House. |
| 0:15.4 | Quite an historic moment here. |
| 0:16.7 | 50 years ago, blacks could not exercise their right to vote in many parts of the country. |
| 0:21.2 | Now an African American is headed for 1,600 Pennsylvania Avenue. |
| 0:25.4 | Election day is almost here and we could soon find out who will become our next president. |
| 0:30.3 | But winning doesn't only happen at the ballot box. |
| 0:33.0 | The results of this election are already being litigated in court, |
| 0:38.0 | just like it was after the 2020 election, |
| 0:41.0 | with former President Donald Trump claiming he was the real winner. |
| 0:45.0 | We think we will win the election very easily. |
| 0:47.8 | We think there's going to be a lot of litigation because we have so much evidence, |
| 0:52.4 | so much proof, and it's going to end up perhaps at the |
| 0:56.3 | highest court in the land we'll see but we think there'll be a lot of litigation |
| 1:00.8 | because we can't have an election stolen like this. |
| 1:05.0 | Trump and his allies filed a slew of lawsuits alleging widespread fraud |
| 1:10.0 | from the pro-Trump elector strategy in Arizona to the mailed ballots in Pennsylvania. |
| 1:15.2 | These efforts failed. |
| 1:17.1 | Fast forward four years later and the lawsuits are back. |
| 1:21.4 | Consider this. Elections are being decided not just at the ballot box but in |
| 1:25.8 | the courtroom as well. And even if we have an outcome on November 5th, Democrats and |
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