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Post –Election Legal Briefing w Q&A : Biden general counsel, Dana Remus, Bob Bauer, legal advisor, and Kate Bedingfield, Dir of communications

KATE >> HI, EVERYONE.b THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US THIS AFTERNOON. WE APPRECIATE YOU TAKING SOME TIME TODAY. TODAY, WE'RE GOING TO OFFER AN UPDATE ON WHERE THINGS STAND AND GIVE SOME, AN OPPORTUNITY FOR BOB BAUER, OUR SENIOR COUNSEL, TO TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF WHAT IS GOING ON IN TERMS OF LEGAL ATTEMPTS BY THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN TO UNDERMINE THE OUTCOME OF THIS ELECTION.

FIRST, I JUST WANT TO SAY WE'RE EXTREMELY PROUD AND EXCITED THAT JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS ARE NOW PRESIDENT ELECT BIDEN AND VICE PRESIDENT ELECT HARRIS DESPITE A GLOBAL PANDEMIC 108 MILLION AMERICANS MOST EVER VOTED IN THIS ELECTION AND 75 MILLION OF THEM RECORD NUMBER VOTED FOR BIDEN AND HARRIS. BIDEN REBUILT THE BLUE WALL WINNING MICHIGAN, WISCONSIN AND PENNSYLVANIA AND WE WILL WIN ARIZONA AND GEORGIA WHEN THE COUNTING IS DONE THERE, TOO.

IN FACT I BELIEVE THE ADVANTAGE THAT BIDEN CURRENTLY HAS IN GEORGIA IS ACTUALLY LARGER THAN THE ADVANTAGE THAT TRUMP WON MICHIGAN BY IN 2016. PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN WON MICHIGAN AND NEBRASKA TOO BY LARGER MARGINS THAN TRUMP DID IN 2016 BECAUSE HE ASSEMBLED THE BROAD DIVERSE COALITION FOR A DECISIVE WIN AND ONLY AMERICAN TO UNSEAT AN INCUMBENT PRESIDENT

AND SO WHILE YOU'VE HEARD NOISE FROM TRUMP AND HIS ALLIES, FOR EXAMPLE, THE REPUBLICAN SECRETARY OF STATE IN GEORGIA SAID THE GEORGIA ELECTION WAS ADMINISTERED WELL. THE REPUBLICAN CHAIR OF COBB COUNTY IN GEORGIA CALLED ON STATE AND NATIONAL LEADERS TO RESPECT THE OUTCOME OF THE RECENT ELECTION AND, QUOTE, TRANSITION IN GRACE. AND OF COURSE FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH CALLED PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN AND VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT HARRIS TO CONGRATULATE THEM.

IT'S JUST NOISE AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO BOB TO EXPLAIN MORE WHY THAT IS BUT BEFORE I DO THAT I WANT TO SAY CLEARLY AND DEFINITIVELY THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN IN THIS ELECTION, THAT OUR DEMOCRACY AND THE PRINCIPLES UPON WHICH THIS COUNTRY IS BUILT ARE STRONGER THAN ANY OTHER ATTEMPT TO UNDERMINE THEM AND JOE BIDEN WHO WON MORE VOTES WILL TAKE THE OFFICE IN JANUARY 20, 2021.

I'LL HAND IT OVER TO BOB BAUER TO WALK YOU THROUGH MORE DETAIL.

BOB >> THANK YOU, KATE, AND I'M HERE WITH GENERAL COUNSEL, DANA REMUS, I'LL MAKE OPENING COMMENTS AND THEN WE'LL TAKE THE QUESTIONS.

THE PURPOSE OF THE BRIEFING TODAY IS TO PUT IN PERSPECTIVE SOME OF WHAT YOU'RE READING AND HEARING ABOUT, WHICH IS NOISE, NOT REALLY LAW, THEATRICS, NOT REALLY LAWSUITS. AND I WANT TO FOCUS ON A FEW VERY SPECIFIC ISSUES.

NUMBER ONE, WHY THE TRUMP LAWSUITS ARE FAILING AROUND THE COUNTRY AND WILL CONTINUE TO FAIL. I WANT TO PICK OUT A COUPLE OF SPECIFIC ISSUES IN THE LEGAL PROCESS THAT YOU SHOULD BE FAMILIAR WITH. ANY UPCOMING RECOUNTS AND WHAT THEY MIGHT MEAN AND IN PARTICULAR ARGUMENTS THAT YOU'RE HEARING FROM THE REPUBLICANS.

CERTAINLY FRAUD, MOST NOTABLY, BUT ALSO SUPPOSEDLY LINKED TO THIS ARGUMENT ABOUT FRAUD, THE EXCLUSION OF OBSERVERS FROM POLLING PLACES. AND THEN I'LL SAY A BIT ABOUT THE STATE LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY THAT YOU MAY BE HEARING ABOUT WHERE I THINK THERE ARE ALSO SOME SIGNIFICANT MISCONCEPTIONS. AND WHEN I'M DONE I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO FIND OUT VERY QUICKLY OR UNDERSTAND VERY QUICKLY WHERETHE REAL FRAUD IN THIS PROCESS ACTUALLY LIES. BUT LET ME BEGIN BY TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE LAWSUITS TO DATE.

JUST TO GIVE YOU AN OVERALL PERSPECTIVE SINCE YOU'RE READING THAT THEY'RE BEING FILED BUT THEIR DISPOSITION ISN'T ALWAYS VERY CLEAR.

THROUGH ELECTION DAY, FROM JUNE THROUGH ELECTION DAY, JUDGES HAVE DISMISSED TRUMP CAMPAIGN
LAWSUITS IN THIS ELECTION AGAINST THIS ELECTION AS UTTERLY UNSUPPORTED BY EVIDENCE.

THAT'S JUST FROM JUNE THROUGH ELECTION DAY. SIX SUITS DISMISSED ON THAT BASIS. SINCE ELECTION DAY, THE PACE HAS PICKED UP. AND JUDGES HAVE DISMISSED ANOTHER SEVEN CASES THAT THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN BROUGHT IN THESE STATES. GEORGIA, MICHIGAN, NEVADA, AND PENNSYLVANIA. SO THAT'S QUITE THE RECORD. TIME AFTER TIME. NOW I WANT TO GO THROUGH A FEW OF THESE TO GIVE YOU A FLAVOR FOR WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. LET'S TAKE, FOR EXAMPLE, SIX MONTHS AGO, TO GO IN THE PREELECTION PERIOD AND TALK ABOUT A TRUMP CAMPAIGN EFFORT TO LIMIT THE ABILITY OF VOTERS TO VOTE BY MAIL INCLUDING BY DROP BOXES, AND THERE THE REPUBLICANS MADE THEIR USUAL ARGUMENT THAT THESE DROP BOXES, THE USE OF THESE DROPBOXES BOXES WOULD LEAD TO FRAUD. THE JUDGE WHO LED THIS WAS TRUMP APPOINTEE AND YOU'LL SEE IT AS A THEME THROUGHOUT THESE CASES AND HE THREW THE CASE OUT SAYING THAT THE CONTENTIONS, THE FRAUD-RELATED CONTENTIONS THAT THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN MADE WERE PURELY SPECULATIVE AND UNSUPPORTED BY THE EVIDENCE THIS IS A CASE BY THE WAY CAPTIONED VERY SPECIFICALLY DONALD J.TRUMP VERSUS BOCVAR A TRUMP LAWSUIT.

AND ANOTHER LAWSUIT IN NEW JERSEY BALLOTS CASTED AFTER THURSDAY BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE THERE THE JUDGE THREW IT OUT FINDING NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER THAT THE MAIL-IN BALLOTING PROGRAM ADOPTED BY NEW JERSEY WOULD LEAD TO ELECTION FRAUD INCLUDING SPECIFICALLY NO EVIDENCE THAT THE VOTER FRAUD WOULD RESULT FROM BALLOTS THAT WERE CAST AFTER ELECTION DAY THAT THERE WERE SUCH VOTER FRAUD RESULTING FROM VOTES CAST AFTER ELECTION DAY.

THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN SUED THE MONTANA VOTE BY MAIL SYSTEM. AND AGAIN A FEDERAL COURT THREW OUT THE SUIT AND I THINK HERE THE RHETORIC OR SHALL WE SAY THE MEASURED COMMENTS OF THE COURT DESERVE QUOTATION. THE COURT EXPLAINED THAT IT WAS REQUIRED TO THROW THE SUIT OUT BECAUSE THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN QUOTE CONTENTION THAT THE UPCOMING ELECTION BOTH NATIONALLY AND MONTANA WILL FALL PREY TO WIDESPREAD FRAUD IS A FICTION. SO THE COURT DISMISSED IT AS A FICTION. AND AGAIN THIS IS A TRUMP CAMPAIGN LAWSUIT NOT A PARTY LAWSUIT.

DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT VERSUS BULLOCK AND FILED A SUIT ATTACKING EXPANDED VOTE BY MAIL IN STATE OF NEVADA, AN APPOINTEE BY GEORGE W. BUSH THREW IT OUT ONLY SPECULATIVE FARFETCHED CLAIMS BY FRAUD A CASE BROUGHT BY DONALD TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE.

ONE CASE AFTER ANOTHER AND THIS IS JUST A SAMPLE WHERE THE CLAIMS THEY'RE BRINGING AMPLIFIED THROUGH PRESS RELEASES THE FABLED FOUR SEASONS LANDSCAPING COMPANY PRESS CONFERENCE BY RUDY GIULIANI TURNS OUT TO BE MERITLESS AND THE COURTS RECOGNIZE IT AS SUCH.

IN FACT, AND I JUST WANT TO FOCUS EVERYBODY ON WHAT THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN SAYS WHEN THEY ACTUALLY SPEAK TO A JUDGE VERSUS WHAT THEY SAY IN PARKING LOTS AT PRESS CONFERENCES, IN A CASE IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA, IN A CASE, THIS CASE INVOLVED, BY THE WAY, THE QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT A BALLOT WOULD BE INVALIDATED FOR MISSING A SIGNATURE IN A PARTICULAR LOCATION OR AN ADDRESS IN A PARTICULAR LOCATION EVEN THOUGH THE VOTER'S ADDRESS WAS READILY IDENTIFIABLE ELSEWHERE, AND THE TRUMP LAWYERS WERE ACTUALLY PRESSED ON THE QUESTION OF WHETHER THEY WERE ALLEGING FRAUD.

SO I SIMPLY WANT TO GIVE YOU THE FOLLOWING FROM THE TRANSCRIPT BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT'S TAKING PLACE INSIDE THE COURTHOUSE AND NOT IN THE PARKING LOT. JUDGE, IN YOUR PETITION YOU DON'T CLAIM ANY OF THE VOTERS COMMITTED ANY FRAUD, CORRECT? TRUMP LAWYER: ACCUSING SOMEONE OF FRAUD IS A PRETTY SET, WE WANT TO GET THE ELECTION DONE. JUDGE: TRUMP I UNDERSTAND I'M ASKING FOR A SPECIFIC QUESTION SPECIFIC ANSWER ARE YOU CLAIMING FRAUD. TRUMP LAWYER TO OUR KNOWLEDGE AT PRESENT NO. JUDGE, ARE YOU CLAIMING ANY INFLUENCE. TRUMP LAWYER: TO OUR KNOWLEDGE AT PRESENT NO: JUDGE: IS THAT REQUIRED TO LODGE THAT CHALLENGE DO YOU HAVE TO ACCOMPANY YOUR.COMPLAINT WITH AN ALLEGATION OF FRAUD? TRUMP LAWYER: NO, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THERE WAS FRAUD. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THE MISTAKE IS A BIG DEAL OR NOT.

SO I THINK THAT'S FAIRLY TELLING. VERY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU'RE HEARING OF COURSE IN THE PARKING LOT. NOW LET'S MOVE TO THE QUESTION THAT YOU'VE HEARD COME UP REPEATEDLY ABOUT OBSERVERS AND LACK OF TRANSPARENCY BECAUSE OBSERVERS WERE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED IN THEIR ACCESS TO THE VOTE COUNT IN POLLING PLACES.

LET'S BE CLEAR: POLL WATCHERS ARE CREDENTIALED. THEY'RE IDENTIFIED THROUGH THE STATE. IT'S VERY EASY TO FACT CHECK THIS CLAIM AND OF COURSE THESE CLAIMS HAVE BEEN REPEATEDLY FACT CHECKED. THE REPUBLICANS AFTER ALL BEFORE THE ELECTION WERE BRAGGING THEY HAD THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF POLL WATCHERS READY TO GO. AND IT WAS ONLY AFTER THE ELECTION ON THIS SHAM ALLEGATION ABOUT TRANSPARENCY THAT THEY CLAIMED THEIR POLL WATCHERS WERE NOT PERMITTED TO BE INCLUDED. AS A MATTER OF FACT, THEY WERE THERE IN FORCE THE SAME AS DEMOCRATIC POLL WATCHERS WERE THERE TO DO TO WATCH UNDER THE ELECTION CODE. AND IN FRONT OF THE JUDGE RATHER THAN IN THE PARKING LOT TRUMP LAWYERS HAVE ADMITTED IN CASES THAT HAD TO BE DISMISSED BECAUSE OF THAT ADMISSION THAT INDEED THEY HAD POLL WATCHERS PRESENT. THAT WAS TRUE IN CASES IN PENNSYLVANIA AND ALSO IN MICHIGAN. AS YOU KNOW, AND KATE MENTIONED THIS A MINUTE AGO, THE TWO CURRENT SENATORS IN GEORGIA UNHAPPY ABOUT THE RUN-OFFS THEY WERE RUN INTO COMPLAINED THAT THE SECRETARY OF STATE HAD NOT CONDUCTED A TRANSPARENT PROCESS AND YOU CAN READ WHAT HIS RESPONSE TO THAT WAS. REPUBLICANS ATTACKING REPUBLICANS ON THIS BOGUS CLAIM OF LACK OF OBSERVER ACCESS. SIMPLY UNTRUE AND EASILY VERIFIED ON THE FACTS.