'Not messing around': Dems battle 'election deniers and frivolous lawsuits' in swing states

28 August 2024

Many Democratic strategists and organizers have been warning that in the 2024 presidential race, they are not only fighting a policy battle, but also a legal battle — as they expect GOP nominee Donald Trump and his allies to fight the election results if Vice President Kamala Harris wins. And Democratic attorneys are anticipating a range of MAGA lawsuits.

The Wall Street Journal's Mariah Timms, in an article published on August 28, details the type of GOP lawsuits that Democrats are gearing up for.

Timms reports, "Lawyers are ramping up battles over who gets to vote and how those votes are counted in the presidential election. Democrats sued Georgia's state election board Monday, (August 26), about its contentious new rule for certifying results. Republicans filed lawsuits in North Carolina and Arizona challenging voter registration procedures there."

Many of the election and voting lawsuits Democrats expect from Republicans, according to Timms, are in key swing states like Wisconsin and Arizona.

"Election lawyers say that the volume of lawsuits is an unprecedented surge from previous contests," Timms explains, "but that the last-minute litigation follows a familiar playbook. The recent lawsuits return to battleground states where Donald Trump and his allies refused to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election — places where the race was won or lost on narrow margins and where the 2024 race between him and Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to be close."

Christian Slater, a spokesman for Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, told the Journal that "election deniers and frivolous lawsuits" in that state "will not stop the governor from fighting to ensure every eligible voter has the opportunity to have their voice heard at the ballot box." And Jim Messina, who managed former President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign, is among the Democratic strategists who expects aggressive legal challenges from MAGA Republicans this year.

Messina told WSJ, "We are not messing around with this. Too much is on the line, and we’ve seen what Trump is capable of when he loses an election fair and square."

Read the Wall Street Journal's full report at this link (subscription required).

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