Some Democrats and election experts are calling this the 'litigation election.'
People walk to cast their ballot during early voting in the presidential election at Recorder's Main Office, in Tucson, Ariz., Oct. 16 2024.In the tumultuous weeks following the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump and his allies scrambled to challenge his election loss with aDay 2024 approaches, Trump and the Republican National Committee have adopted what they say is a more aggressive pre-election legal strategy.
Democrats, too, have taken on an offensive posture. They have aggressively pushed back in the courts, intervening in "dozens of baseless Republican lawsuits to debunk their lies and defeat them in court," according to an internal memo prepared by Vice President Kamala Harris' chief attorney, Dana Remus.People walk to cast their ballot during early voting in the presidential election at Recorder's Main Office, in Tucson, Ariz., Oct. 16 2024.
Allies of the former president say that this time, they're determined to be more aggressive in the lead-up to Election Day."If you wait till after the election to take legal action, you're not going to get a judge to side with you," Davis said. "You need to get injunctions ahead of time on signature verification and other issues, because if you wait till after the election, good luck.
Republicans in Arizona have set up a team tasked with receiving and sorting through reported election issues from around the state, which one source familiar with the operation described as a "daily turn of frivolous problems." "The 2024 presidential election is already the most litigated in American history," according to the internal Harris campaign memo, "but we are also the most prepared campaign in history for what we face."
Together, the Democratic National Committee, with support from the Harris campaign, is involved in 35 lawsuits around the country, lawyers with the Harris campaign told ABC News.
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