Trump assembles team of hotshot lawyers to monitor election and prepare explosive court battle if Harris claims victory

DONALD Trump’s squad is already preparing ineligible challenges to the US predetermination effect successful the lawsuit that rival Kamala Harris wins by a tiny margin.

Both Republican and Democrat run teams person spent months getting acceptable for the imaginable of weeks of courtroom battles successful the aftermath of a highly divisive polling day.

In what’s acceptable to beryllium the tightest contention to the Whitehouse successful 25 years, squad Trump are already claiming there’s nary mode to verify votes from overseas oregon subject ballots.

His apical aides are besides arguing predetermination officials person utilized aboriginal voting to perpetrate fraud, portion masses of postal votes successful plaything states are illegal.

Veteran predetermination lawyer Gineen Bresso is starring the complaint for Trump, with hundreds of solicitors helping her enactment unneurotic the Republican argument.

The Democrats person a 400 beardown ineligible squad successful place, with unit including 2 erstwhile US solicitor generals.

An further 10,000 lawyers are connected standby to counsel Kamala Harris crossed 50 states.

Dana Remus, who is starring the ineligible complaint for the Democrats, told the Wall Street Journal: “They person started earlier and we person started earlier too.

“We ne'er stopped preparing since 2020.

“As soon arsenic the Republicans record a case, arsenic soon arsenic they commencement saying predetermination results can’t beryllium trusted, we are prepared to respond.”

David Becker, enforcement manager of the non-partisan Center for Election Innovation & Research, added: “The question isn’t whether they’re going to bring these claims, the question is whether the tribunal is going to adjacent springiness them the slightest clip of day.”

Experts person predicted tomorrow’s predetermination volition beryllium the tightest since 2000, erstwhile Republican George Bush claimed triumph successful a Florida recount by 537 votes against Al Gore.

This clip astir each eyes volition beryllium connected Pennsylvania, wherever a important 19 electoral votes are up for grabs and the contention could spell either way.

The authorities does not licence aboriginal voting and doesn’t process postal votes earlier polling day, meaning the effect could instrumentality longer than different states.

Michael Morse, predetermination instrumentality adept and prof astatine the University of Pennsylvania, said: “We should expect a spate of section litigation passim the authorities successful the contiguous aftermath of the election, not due to the fact that those suits are meritorious, but due to the fact that Pennsylvania instrumentality is rife with specified opportunities.”

Trump past nighttime declared the predetermination “ours to lose” as America heads to the polls successful the tightest contention successful much than 2 decades.

Kamala Harris had a wafer-thin canvass pb connected the eve of voting arsenic she hammered the important plaything authorities of Pennsylvania yesterday.

But successful reality, the numbers were good wrong the borderline of error, with Mr Trump insisting helium is connected the eve of an historical comeback.

Speaking to thousands of ­reporters successful Raleigh, North Carolina, 1 of the 7 battleground states, helium said: “If we get everybody retired and vote, there’s not a happening they tin do.”

He besides vowed a 25 per cent ­tariff connected each goods from ­Mexico on his archetypal time successful bureau should helium triumph tonight.

Both teams past nighttime claimed they were “feeling good” astir their numbers aft an unprecedented 78 cardinal voters had already gone to the polls early.

His elder adviser Jason Miller told reporters: “The numbers amusement that President Trump is going to triumph this race.

“We consciousness precise bully astir wherever things are.”

But Ms Harris’s Democrat run believes the sheer size of its elector mobilisation efforts volition plaything it for them.

Campaign seat Jen O’Malley Dillon deed back: “We are feeling precise bully astir wherever we are close now.”

The 2 contenders pulled retired each the stops — including A-List celebrities — arsenic they spent the past 24 hours zig-zagging crossed the bluish plaything states.