Trump’s re-election campaign filed a federal lawsuit over alleged voting irregularities in Nevada, implying that it would challenge the results of the state’s vote count.
According to CNN, Biden was ahead of Trump by a total of 22,657 votes with a total of 632,558 votes, giving Biden 49.8 percent of the estimated vote in Nevada. Trump gained 609,901 votes in Nevada, placing him at 48 percent of the estimated vote. Roughly 7 percent of Nevada votes have yet to be counted.
Projections from CNN show Biden ahead in electoral votes with 253 to Trump’s 213. Nevada holds 6 electoral votes. A total of 270 electoral votes are required for a candidate to win the presidency. However, both Fox News and the Associated Press have projected that Biden will win the state of Arizona which would add 11 electoral votes to Biden’s lead.
On Thursday, the Trump campaign alleged that thousands of illegal votes had been counted in Clark County, Nevada and would file a federal lawsuit calling for mail-in ballot counting to be stopped. Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt alleged that up to 10,000 people had cast their mail-in ballots fraudulently, including Clark County residents who had left the area during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Laxalt also alleged that “there have been dead voters who have been counted.”
At the same event, former Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell said that the observers were not being permitted to check the mail-in ballots. According to Grenell, Clark County officials were violating a state requirement which states that it is illegal for an individual to cast a vote in Nevada if they have not been in the state for 30 days.
“All of your questions about the details are legitimate questions and now they don’t want us to check those ballots and we are seeing discrepancies all over,” Grenell said. “We are asking Clark County officials to give us answers.”
Newsweek reached out to Clark County officials for comment.
Trump has filed lawsuits in some states where the counting of mail-in ballots is still occurring, alleging that fraudulent behavior may have led to his drop in the polls.
“I had such a big lead in all of these states late into election night, only to see the leads miraculously disappear as the days went by,” Trump tweeted Friday. “Perhaps these leads will return as our legal proceedings move forward!”
