US presidential election 2020: legal challenges as momentum shifts from Trump to Biden
As late-arriving ballots continue to be tabulated, US President Donald Trump has slipped behind his Democrat challenger Joe Biden in the hunt for the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the 2020 US presidential election. Trump’s campaign filed lawsuits on November 4, 2020, in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia to demand that vote counting be halted in those states. The South China Morning Post’s Political Economy team senior editor John Carter spoke with North America Deputy Bureau Chief…