Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. I'm Naila Boodoo. It's

Thursday, November 5th and we still don't have a definitive winner in the

presidential race. We're expecting some final vote counts that

should decide the race today, but former Vice President Biden appears close to

victory. I'm not here to declare that we've won, but I am here to report when the count is finished,

we believe we will be the winners.

Here's what else we're talking about today.

While the country is focused on the presidential race,

a lot has been happening down the ballot.

But first, President Trump's election lawsuit strategy

is today's one big thing.

It's all coming down to the battleground states. Yesterday, Joe Biden won Wisconsin and Michigan both states Trump won in 2016. Georgia remains too close to call. But these were

among the states where Trump filed lawsuits to challenge the vote. How successful

are these suits likely to be? Noah Feldman is a Harvard Law professor. He hosts the

deep background podcast with our partners at Pushkin Industries. Hey Noah

welcome back. Hey now and nice to be here in this crazy, crazy time.

And we're in the scenarios, Noah,

that we just talked about, it was just a couple of days ago,

does it appear to you that the Trump campaign

is taking sort of a state by state lawsuit approach?

No, it appears to me that they're desperate and flailing.

These lawsuits, if you read the complaints,

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