Ben Ginsberg, a recently retired top Republican Party election lawyer, says President Donald Trump can’t ask the Supreme Court to step in and stop ballot counting.
During an early Wednesday appearance on CNN, Ginsberg told Jake Tapper that Trump’s request to stop counting votes in some states would "be viewed by any court, including the Supreme Court, as just a massive disenfranchisement that would be frowned upon."
Trump claimed an early victory while millions of votes remained uncounted. The president said he would ask the Supreme Court to stop counting votes. But some states are still counting legally cast votes, Ginsberg said.
Tapper asked Ginsberg, who served as national counsel to George W. Bush's campaign in the 2000 Florida recount, if he had seen anything like Trump's statement.
"No, not even close," Ginsberg said.
Ginsberg ripped Trump's "unsubstantiated talk about 'rigged' elections caused by absentee ballot 'fraud' and 'cheating'" in The Washington Post last week.
He wrote that Trump’s claims are "not about finding fraud and irregularities" but "about suppressing the number of votes not cast for Trump."
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