Can Trump litigate his way to victory?

UNTIL Election Night, the Trump versus Biden race was handled by the members of each candidate's campaign war room. Now that the election is over after the Democratic presidential candidate was projected to be the winner, the continuing fight is in the hands of the respective legal war room. Bring in the lawyers!

In a way, trying to litigate the way to victory is not something new in American presidential elections, the most recent example being the 2000 race between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W Bush when all eyes were on who would carry the state of Florida and its 25 electoral college votes.

To recapture the 2000 electoral mess: After an election night, the Democrats and most of the media crowned the former Democratic vice-president Gore as the next US president, only to be challenged by the state of Florida which reported that Mr Bush won with 48.8 per cent of the vote - a margin of victory of 1,784 or less than 0.5 per cent. This required an automatic vote recount, after which Mr Bush's margin of victory fell to 327.