The Trump team has withdrawn its lawsuit contesting the vote count in Michigan after launching it on 11 November alleging foul play in the vote count.
On Wednesday, Michigan’s Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced that all of the counties had voted to certify the results of the 3 November election.
“This morning we are withdrawing our lawsuit in Michigan as a direct result of achieving the relief we sought: to stop the election in Wayne County from being prematurely certified before residents can be assured that every legal vote has been counted and every illegal vote has not been counted”, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said in a statement.On Monday, the canvassing board of Wayne County, Michigan’s most populous region, was initially unable to certify the results of the election because of malpractices alleged by two Republican members of the four-person panel. However, hours later the board members reached a compromise to overcome the 2-2 partisan deadlock.
Democratic party candidate Joe Biden won 68 percent of the vote in Wayne County, which includes the city of Detroit and where more than 850,000 ballots were cast, according to official results posted by Fox News. Biden won the state by roughly 146,000 votes, or 2.7 percent of the total.
Source: Sputnik