Donald Trump's reelection campaign on Monday attacked The Washington Post's coverage of a revised lawsuit in Pennsylvania, calling the newspaper's reporting a "complete mischaracterization."
According to the New York Post, the campaign accused the Washington Post of "erroneously claiming the campaign had dropped its legal claim of nearly 700,000 ballots processed illegally and in secret."
But the campaign said it had instead "strategically decided to restructure its lawsuit" after a Friday ruling by the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.
"We are still arguing that 682,479 ballots were counted illegally, in secret," campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh told the New York Post. "Unfortunately, fake news activists rushed to print their clickbait headlines, apparently without even reading the lawsuit. That's lazy journalism at best, but more likely intentionally misleading."
Washington Post spokeswoman Kristine Coratti told the New York Post that the paper "fully stands behind its story, which is based on a complete and accurate reading of the revised version of the Trump campaign's lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania election results."
According to Associated Press reporting on the lawsuit, the campaign dropped the allegation that 682,479 mail-in and absentee ballots were illegally processed without its representatives watching.
The campaign's revised lawsuit, filed on Sunday, maintains the aim of blocking Pennsylvania from certifying a Biden victory in the state, and it keeps its claim that Democrat voters were treated more favorably than GOP voters.
The remaining claim in the lawsuit centers on disqualifying ballots cast by voters who were given an opportunity to fix mail-in ballots that were going to be disqualified for a technicality.
The lawsuit doesn't say how many of those votes the campaign believes there to be, and Murtaugh did not respond to the New York Post's query on the issue.
Biden leads Trump by 69,140 votes in Pennsylvania.
The Associated Press contributed.
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