Wednesday Briefing: Casting Doubts on the U.S. Election

As Donald Trump makes widespread claims that the Nov. 5 election will be rigged, a handful of his allies are already questioning this year’s voting. Their efforts could help lay the groundwork to once again undermine the results, should Trump lose.

Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, who helped Trump try to overturn the 2020 election, is among those leading this effort. He and a group of Republican lawmakers have filed a lawsuit against their state’s government, alleging that its system to verify ballots cast by members of the military and Americans living abroad is insufficient. It’s one of about 100 cases filed by Republican allies related to topics like voter rolls and noncitizen voters. Election officials and other experts say that these claims are meritless.

Hamas’s top commanders are mostly dead, its rank and file has been decimated and many of its hide-outs and stockpiles have been captured and destroyed. The group’s fighters are no match for Israel’s army in open combat, but that’s not how Hamas is fighting.