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President Trump has continued to push forward on a series of lawsuits across several key battleground states, alleging widespread voter fraud took place during the 2020 presidential election. Is there a likelihood that these lawsuits could appreciably nullify enough votes to flip entire states? weighed in on Seattle’s Morning News on ³ÉÈËXÕ¾ Radio.

Answering the question of whether Trump’s legal strategy might hold water, Fahrenthold is skeptical.

“I don’t think so, and I don’t think that if it is, it will be successful,” he said. “There’s a lot of hot air about this — a lot of very vague claims from President Trump and his supporters.”

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That’s largely driven by lawsuits lacking much in the way of hard evidence, which, even if they passed legal muster, wouldn’t flip nearly enough votes to meaningfully alter the results of the election.

“When you look at what they’ve actually written down on paper and submitted to courts, there’s two things that stand out: One, the actual scope of their complaints when they write them down given to the courts is very narrow. They haven’t even alleged anything that would cause the results of the elections in these states to flip,” Fahrenthold noted.

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“The second thing is, when they make those allegations, they provide no proof and they lose,” he continued. “They’ve had an almost uniform record of losing in the courts because the allegations that they’re making, narrow as they are, often come with no evidence.”

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter David Fahrenthold joins ³ÉÈËXÕ¾ Radio’s Dave Ross every Tuesday on Seattle’s Morning News. Listen to Seattle’s Morning News weekday mornings from 5 – 9 a.m. on ³ÉÈËXÕ¾ Radio, 97.3 FM. Subscribe to the podcast here.