Team Trump has lost eight election fraud-related lawsuits to date, and dropped four others – while two law firms have abandoned their effort. “Nobody said it would be easy to overturn an election without evidence,” says @JohnAvlon in today’s #RealityCheck pic.twitter.com/SUOWc723Bk

— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) November 17, 2020

Fred Eshelman, owner of a venture capital firm, sued True the Vote Inc. today. He claims it duped him into giving it $2.5 million for its Validate the Vote 2020 campaign to file lawsuits to uncover fraud in the Nov. elections on behalf of President Trump. @CourthouseNews pic.twitter.com/6f2JE6AZ1r

— Cameron Langford (@cam_langford) November 25, 2020

🚨Pennsylvania Election Update:

48 hours after a blistering ruling from a federal judge denying Rudy’s claims, another attack on the election process was just denied.

One more victory for PA voters. The will of the people will not be thwarted. pic.twitter.com/RTZojca1N1

— Josh Shapiro (@JoshShapiroPA) November 23, 2020

ICYMI:

A supercut of an Arizona judge examining the electronic form-letter affidavit collection process used by the Trump campaign to support one since-dismissed case.

It yielded lies and "spam."

Spoiler alert: He didn't let in the dodgy affidavits: https://t.co/iIy9SIIaxL https://t.co/dWOLCuJHdG pic.twitter.com/hse0Iyjprq

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 20, 2020

JUST IN: Not one state election official reached by @ABC News in 46 states and the District of Columbia reported finding evidence of significant fraud or irregularities that would have altered the presidential election. https://t.co/RvsLbGrMWm

— ABC News (@ABC) November 17, 2020

As President Trump refuses to accept the results of the election and continues to employ various legal tactics, @jaketapper asks:

"How long is the Republican Party going to continue to defer to unhinged, mendacious desperation led by the gang that couldn't sue straight?" pic.twitter.com/FO4f4iaRaf

— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) November 15, 2020

As baseless voter fraud claims rage, remember that once President Trump’s biggest lies are “actually investigated – by Republicans in Congress or the Justice Department – it comes up empty” says @JohnAvlon in today’s #RealityCheck.

“Repeating lies doesn’t change reality.” pic.twitter.com/z4emKGcNwr

— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) November 11, 2020

Fact Checker: Giuliani’s fantasy parade of false voter-fraud claims https://t.co/5QD1cJLv4j

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 16, 2020

Lawsuits that tried to disrupt Biden's wins in four states are withdrawn | ⁦@kpolantz⁩ https://t.co/7twMoU4FqE

— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) November 16, 2020

"Come on now," one judge said after hearing a Trump team claim. https://t.co/yUbjvQ6Je5

— ABC News (@ABC) November 16, 2020

To sum up where things stand: Trump had a very bad Friday in court with his election cases. They're headed for more action next week https://t.co/Dtukq1UZ40

— Katelyn Polantz (@kpolantz) November 14, 2020

I look forward to Mayor Giuliani spearheading the legal effort to defend OUR RIGHT to FREE and FAIR ELECTIONS! Rudy Giuliani, Joseph diGenova, Victoria Toensing, Sidney Powell, and Jenna Ellis, a truly great team, added to our other wonderful lawyers and representatives!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2020

NYT: “President Trump has put his personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, in charge of his campaign lawsuits related to the outcome of the election, as well as all public communications related to them, four people familiar with the move said on Friday.” https://t.co/QjS5CnmDYk

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 14, 2020

NEW: How @realdonaldtrump's plan to win back the election in court went quickly — at times even comically — awry.

Includes:
-"Dead" voter who turned out to be alive.
-"1000s" of bad ballots that turned out to be 1.
-A conspiracy theory about Sharpies.https://t.co/y07fynHEdb

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) November 15, 2020

Joint op-ed by David Boies and Theodore B. Olson –> We opposed each other in Bush v. Gore. Now we agree: Biden won. https://t.co/P5YtwydTn9

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) November 14, 2020

Here are all the lawsuits the Trump campaign has filed since Election Day—and why most are unlikely to go anywhere https://t.co/0J6s17RBon

— TIME (@TIME) November 15, 2020

President Trump’s campaign has dramatically scaled back its federal lawsuit challenging the election results in Pennsylvania, dropping claims that observers were illegally blocked from viewing vote-counting in counties dominated by Democratshttps://t.co/kgzKqoj2ZV

— POLITICO (@politico) November 16, 2020

Sixteen federal prosecutors specially assigned to monitor 2020 election malfeasance told AG Barr in a letter today they saw no evidence of substantial voting irregularities, & asked him to rescind his recent policy change. w/ @thamburger https://t.co/ncFQmpjn2Q

— Matt Zapotosky (@mattzap) November 13, 2020

"Four Seasons Total Lawyering": Why Trump voter fraud lawsuits are "meritless." https://t.co/uGfIgdWRlt

— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) November 14, 2020

These cases are so weak that it appears the Supreme Court will be spared the need to intercede on Trump’s behalf, surely to the relief of the justices, @paulwaldman1 writes https://t.co/HyJ3mwNJIQ

— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) November 14, 2020

Under questioning from judges, at least two of the lawyers have backed away from suggestions the election was stolen or fraudulent. In other instances, attorneys have said under oath they have no evidence of fraud. https://t.co/mYyvjhfFGl

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) November 13, 2020

A Michigan judge has denied the Trump campaign's motion to cease certification of the vote in Detroit, noting that if the election challengers had attended orientation, they would know that what they were witnessing was routine.https://t.co/iU0BB9Wqoa pic.twitter.com/Wgos3XPUoX

— Andrew Fleischman (@ASFleischman) November 13, 2020

As President Trump pushes to stop the counting of ballots that arrive after Election Day – baselessly citing fraud – military absentee ballots could get caught in the crossfire, says @JohnAvlon in today’s #RealityCheck pic.twitter.com/b60FoiyIId

— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) October 30, 2020

For those keeping score:

To the public, Trump and his loyalists have alleged a massive voter fraud conspiracy.

To judges in Pa. and Arizona, his lawyers expressly disavowed those allegations.

Pa., then: https://t.co/izb4xGIlh3

Arizona, now: https://t.co/iIy9SIIaxL

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 12, 2020

Election officials in dozens of states from both parties told The New York Times that there was no evidence of voting fraud, amounting to a forceful rebuke of President Trump’s false narrative. https://t.co/3dreXGzPK4

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 11, 2020

Six senior Jones Day lawyers told The New York Times that given the small number of late-arriving ballots involved in a Pennsylvania lawsuit, the main goal of the litigation seemed to be to erode public confidence in the election results. https://t.co/7sX8fDghDM

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 10, 2020

Arizona's Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich told Fox Business Network today there's "no evidence" of voter fraud in the state and "there are no facts that would lead anyone to believe that the election results will change" https://t.co/doG6ca8Tok

— Axios (@axios) November 12, 2020

Analysis | Trump lawyers suffer embarrassing rebukes from judges over voter fraud claims https://t.co/4LkfkWfybq

— Michael Salfino (@MichaelSalfino) November 11, 2020

The Trump campaign affiants themselves are interesting. This one says on FB that there's nothing to worry about because a secret recount was being done by "elite units of the National Guards" looking for the secret watermarks that are utter QAnon nonsense. pic.twitter.com/gdTaJbqDlL

— Brad Heath (@bradheath) November 11, 2020

Postal worker featured by Republicans as evidence of vote tampering admits he made it up; GOP donors gave him $130,000 https://t.co/UlOqChJN5j

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) November 10, 2020

"I realize a lot of people are happy about this election, and a lot of people are not happy… one thing I can't comprehend is how hungry people are to consume lies and to consume information that is not true."

– Phila. City @Commish_Schmidt on claims of widespread voter fraud pic.twitter.com/XoweYxMUQO

— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) November 11, 2020

The Trump campaign released that 234-page stack of affidavits from poll watchers in Detroit tonight. So far, it's mostly allegations that they couldn't get as close as they wanted to the counting, couldn't re-enter the room after they left, etc. Pretty standard election stuff. pic.twitter.com/95JxceLCah

— Brad Heath (@bradheath) November 11, 2020