Democrat nominee Joe Biden’s campaign is quietly turning fundraising efforts toward bringing in money for a potential after-election legal fight with President Donald Trump and his campaign.
Biden's allies and donors have discussed in recent calls preparations to fight lawsuits from Trump and his campaign if the vote totals are close or contested, two people who participated in those calls told Politico.
If needed, the funds would support lawyers working for the Biden campaign, some of whom are already in key battleground states as part of programs to protect the vote.
Biden aides told the Biden's Lawyer Committees, donors made up of attorneys, that the campaign expects lawsuits to quickly flood the courts just after the election and that donors must be ready to support the fight right away.
“These lawsuits are going to cost money. Some of it is pro bono legal work. But there are the filing fees, the service fees. You need money for all of that,” Joe Cotchett, a Bay Area attorney and Biden donor who was on the Lawyers Committee call, commented. “Unless Joe Biden wins big ... those lawsuits will go on for perhaps a month. … There are going to be individual lawsuits in each state, I guarantee you.”
In another call with donors last Thursday, attorneys working with Biden's campaign warned donors that even though they have funds to start a legal battle, they expect the process to go on for some time, and a "fundraising apparatus like never before" is needed to finance it.
President Donald Trump has claimed frequently that there is widespread election fraud occurring, and on Sunday night told reports in Charlotte, N.C. that his campaign is "going in the night of — as soon as the election is over, we’re going in with our lawyers." He also said it's a "terrible thing" that ballots are being counted after the election. Legally, many battleground states do not allow mail-in ballots to be counted until after the polls close.
According to The New York Times, the Trump campaign is also raising money that could be used for legal fights, including enrolling online donors automatically so it can keep collecting weekly donations through mid-December.
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