Trump campaign distances itself from attorney Sidney Powell: Transition updates
The campaign now says she's not a member of the president's legal team.
President-elect Joe Biden is moving forward with transition plans, capping a tumultuous and tension-filled campaign during a historic pandemic against President Donald Trump, who still refuses to concede the election two weeks after Biden was projected as the winner and is taking extraordinary moves to challenge the results.
Running out of legal alternatives to override the election loss, Trump invited Michigan's top Republican state lawmakers to visit the White House on Friday, as he and allies pursue a pressure campaign to overturn results in a state Biden won by more than 150,000 votes.
Despite Trump's roadblocks and his administration refusing to recognize Biden as the president-elect, Biden is forging ahead as he prepares to announce key Cabinet positions.
Though Trump has alleged widespread voter fraud, he and his campaign haven't been able to provide the evidence to substantiate their claims and the majority of their lawsuits have already resulted in unfavorable outcomes.
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Election lawsuits: By the numbers
Since Election Day, the Trump campaign and its allies have lost in court at least 30 times in their efforts to overturn the results of the election, according to an ABC News count.
The campaign itself has filed 19 lawsuits across 5 states-- 17 of which have been lost so far by being denied, dismissed, withdrawn, etc. The campaign has had one win.
-ABC News' Olivia Rubin
Chris Christie: It’s time for Trump election challenges to end
When ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos asked former New Jersey Governor and ABC News Contributor Chris Christie if it was time for Trump's challenges to the election results to end, he agreed.
"Yes. And here's the reason why the president has had an opportunity to access the courts," Christie said on ABC's "This Week" Sunday. "And I said to you -- you know, George, starting at 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, if you've got the evidence of fraud, present it."
"What's happened here is quite frankly -- the conduct of the president's legal team has been a national embarrassment," he added.
Trump campaign requests recount in Georgia
The Trump campaign announced Saturday night that it’s requesting a recount in Georgia, a state that certified its results on Friday showing Joe Biden won the state.
The move follows a hand-count audit that reaffirmed the results of the machine tabulation were accurate. The Trump campaign says in the statement they filed for the recount on Saturday.
The campaign claims in the statement "without signature matching, this recount will be a sham" -- but the signature-matching process has already taken place. Under state law, the recount would use high-capacity scanners and would not be conducted by hand.
"We are focused on ensuring that every aspect of Georgia State Law and the U.S. Constitution are followed so that every legal vote is counted," the campaign said in a statement. "President Trump and his campaign continue to insist on an honest recount in Georgia, which has to include signature matching and other vital safeguards."
While the signatures were not matched during the hand audit, signatures were already matched twice because they are first verified upon receipt of the voter's application, and then again when the ballot is received.
Trump supporters rallied at the Georgia state Capitol on Saturday. Biden won the state by 12,284 votes following the audit, which is under the 0.5% of total votes necessary to request a recount. The Trump campaign had until Tuesday to request the recount.
-ABC News' Will Steakin
Judge tosses Trump campaign's Pa. lawsuit
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has rejected a lawsuit brought by the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania seeking to overturn the state's election results. In doing so, the judge offered a harsh rebuke to the Trump legal team for filing a suit without "factual proof."
U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Brann wrote in the opinion that he would not "disenfranchise almost seven million voters," as the Trump campaign had sought.
"One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption," Brann wrote. "That has not happened."
Click here to read more about the failed legal effort, the latest in more than a dozen the Trump campaign has filed seeking to overturn results of the 2020 election.
-ABC News' Alex Hosenball and Matt Mosk