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Biden Campaign Predicts a 'Sizeable' Victory in Pennsylvania
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0:39Now PlayingJoe Biden on the brink of winning the presidency, needs to clinch one more state to defeat President Donald Trump. Biden's campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon said in a briefing Thursday "folks are going to need to stay patient and stay calm."
"We are absolutely confident that Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States," she said.
Biden pushed closer Thursday to the 270 Electoral College votes he needed to win the White House, securing victories in the "blue wall" battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Michigan and narrowing Trump's path.
The virtual briefing was held along with senior advisor Bob Bauer who addressed the Trump's campaign flurry of legal activity to try to improve the Republican president's chances and cast doubt on the election results, requesting a recount in Wisconsin and filing lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia.
Despite Trump's claims that he was taking fraud claims to court, most of the lawsuits demand better access for campaign observers to locations where ballots are being processed and counted. A judge in Georgia dismissed the campaign's suit there less than 12 hours after it was filed.
Bauer said the suits were "meritless"
"I want to emphasize that for their purposes these lawsuits don't have to have merit," he said. "That's not the purpose. ... It is to create an opportunity for them to message falsely about what's taking place in the electoral process."
With just a handful of states still up for grabs, Trump tried to press his case in court in some key swing states. In spite of the aggressive Republican move, the flurry of court action did not seem obviously destined to impact the election's outcome.
Bauer was asked during the briefing if he saw a possibility that Attorney William Barr would participate in any of the Trump' legal maneuvering into the process.
"There'd be no basis for the Department of Justice to become involved, he said. Adding," this is a state matter, not a matter for the Department of Justice. And we see no reason to believe that that fundamental allocation of responsibility is one that the Attorney General is planning to challenge in any way."
Two days after Election Day, neither candidate had amassed the votes needed to win the White House. But Biden's victories in the Great Lakes states left him at 264, meaning he was one battleground state away — any would do — from becoming president-elect.
Trump, with 214 electoral votes, faced a much higher hurdle. To reach 270, he needed to claim all four remaining battlegrounds: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia and Nevada.
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