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In the legal battle against his defeat in the US presidential election, Donald Trump is now relying on a complaint from the state of Texas.

The president asked the US Supreme Court on Wednesday to be allowed to comment on the Texas-initiated case.

The Texas complaint is "very solid, all criteria are met," wrote Trump on Twitter.

In Texas, Trump had won the majority in the presidential election on November 3rd.

The state filed a complaint against the official election results in the swing states of Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on Tuesday.

The results there were "unconstitutional", since "fraud-prone" postal votes were counted on a large scale.

Texas is supported by other federal states.

17 Republican attorneys at law from the 50 US states declared in their submission to the Supreme Court in Washington that they support the lawsuit from Texas.

Trump continues to assume fraud

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Since a state is not allowed to interfere in the electoral process in other states, the complaint has little chance of success.

In addition, Texas did not provide clear evidence of election fraud or filed a lawsuit against election results in states with high absentee ballots where Trump won.

The Supreme Court had only rejected an application for an injunction on Tuesday, with which the Trump camp wanted to overturn the election result in Pennsylvania.

No dissenting votes from the nine judges were listed in the decision.

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Nonetheless, on Twitter, Trump thanked the attorneys at law from the states who, together with their colleague from Texas, campaigned against “the greatest electoral fraud in the history of the United States”.

Trump has been claiming since the November 3 election that victory was stolen from him by massive Democratic fraud.

So far, neither he nor his lawyers have been able to provide convincing evidence.

Lawsuits in various states have been dismissed in dozens of cases.

Attorney General William Barr also said last week that he had no evidence of fraud to the extent that it would alter the outcome.

In his lawsuit, Texan Ken Paxton cites as grounds that the constitution was violated in the four states - among other things because voters were not treated equally and there were irregularities.

He also explicitly pointed out that the states concerned had allegedly changed their voting rights in an unconstitutional manner shortly before the election - with reference to the Covid 19 pandemic, deadlines were extended and postal voting was made easier.

It's about 62 voters

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The US President is not elected directly by the people, but by 538 electoral voters who usually vote according to the result in their respective states.

270 votes are required for victory.

According to the preliminary results, Biden had 306 voters behind him in the election, Trump 232.

In Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin together there are 62 voters - and the lawsuit is ultimately about taking Biden.

Paxton wants electorates in these states either to be commissioned by local parliaments or not to be appointed in the first place.

The Texan also filed a request for an injunction with the Supreme Court to immediately stop all activity involving the electorate in the four states.

The voting of the electorate in the respective states is scheduled for December 14th.

The House of Representatives and the Senate will meet in Washington on January 6th to count the votes from the states and announce the result.

Biden is due to be sworn in as the new president on January 20th.