Wisconsin Examiner: “This is a big week for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin. The deadline for requesting a recount is coming up on Wednesday afternoon, just as leaders of the Republican-controlled elections committee in the Assembly have said they hope to begin hearings on allegations of voter fraud. Trump is taking his last stand in a swing state he desperately tried to win. The odds of changing the outcome are looking pretty bad for Trump, to put it mildly. Not only is Biden’s 20,000-vote margin a tough hill to climb in a recount, the Wisconsin Election Commission just announced it will cost the Trump campaign nearly $8 million up front — three times what Jill Stein spent in 2016 on a recount that ended up changing vote totals by about 1/100th of a percent.”

“The money is a serious concern for Trump, who has a lot of debt to worry about, not to mention additional legal liabilities that could begin raining down on him as soon as he leaves office. That’s why Trump launched a deceptive fundraising campaign that purports to cover recount costs but is really an effort to help him staunch the bleeding as the bills start pouring in. Then there is the inevitable crumbling of the Republicans’ phony fraud allegations. These are so transparently false that the plaintiffs themselves voluntarily withdrew their lawsuit on Monday from a federal court in Green Bay, in which they had sought to have votes thrown out from Milwaukee, Dane, and Menominee counties, where voters tipped the election to Joe Biden, based on unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud.”