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Trump Asks Cruz To Argue Texas Election Lawsuit In Front Of Supreme Court As 18 States Now Support

Ryan Saavedra
Trump Asks Cruz To Argue Texas Election Lawsuit In Front Of Supreme Court As 18 States Now Support
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President Donald Trump has asked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to argue Texas’ election lawsuit in front of the United States Supreme Court if the nation’s highest court decides to take up the case.

The lawsuit, filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, seeks to invalidate the election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin because, as Paxton alleges, those states exploited “the COVID-19 pandemic to justify ignoring federal and state election laws and unlawfully enacting last-minute changes, thus skewing the results of the 2020 General Election.”

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