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McClatchy Washington Bureau
McClatchy Washington Bureau
Politics
Michael Wilner

Trump's legal assault in election fight mocked by veteran Bush v. Gore lawyers

Florida's former Attorney General, Pam Bondi, at a Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, rally for President Donald Trump on November 2, 2020. (Wendy Rhodes/Palm Beach Post/TNS)

WASHINGTON — Veteran Republican attorneys who fought George W. Bush's successful legal battle for the presidency in 2000 are steering clear of President Donald Trump's court fights, unimpressed by a strategy they say is quixotic and undisciplined.

The Trump campaign is taking their election battle to court on multiple fronts, filing lawsuits to stop ballot counting in Michigan and Pennsylvania, challenging vote-processing procedures in Georgia and Nevada, and calling for a recount in Wisconsin — all while encouraging a continued, uninterrupted vote count in Arizona.

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