Trump's 2020 chances '100 percent dead' after 4 swing state lawsuits are dropped

President Trump's longshot chances of overturning President-elect Joe Biden's win just became pretty much impossible.

Even before Biden was projected to win the 2020 election, Trump and his supporters launched a bevvy of lawsuits aimed at disqualifying ballots in states Biden narrowly picked up. Those suits have slowly been dropped or dismissed, and on Monday, a slew of swing-state drops have all but eradicated Trump's chances of changing the election outcome before the Electoral College finalizes it, CNN reports.

Using a similar strategy and backed by conservative attorney James Bopp Jr., voters in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin all filed lawsuits challenging the legality of some votes cast in those states. Nine cases aimed at overturning Biden's win were also dropped on Friday. The Trump campaign lost several suits in Pennsylvania that day as well. One case in Pennsylvania had attempted to throw out late-arriving mail-in ballots, and because it mirrored the strategy of the four cases dropped Monday, likely pushed the voters to give up.

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With barely any of Trump's election challenges left, Rick Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Irvine, became convinced that "Trump's legal path to overturn the election results appears 100 percent dead." Kathryn Krawczyk