A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
3 verified reports published on November 15, 2020.
This edition is the complete daily record. Reports remain separate so readers can see each claim, source set, correction, and update without one article being mislabeled as the entire edition.
By November 15, the Trump operation was still yelling fraud, but the legal and factual ground beneath it was already starting to buckle. The bigger the claim, the more obvious the gap between rhetoric and proof became.
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The Trump campaign filed its Georgia election contest on November 15, but the move came after the state had already advanced certification and while judges were signaling deep skepticism toward late fraud claims. It was a legal bid with the smell of desperation all over it.
A Pennsylvania federal-election challenge tied to Trump-world entered November 15 in visibly weakened shape, after the campaign filed an amended complaint that dropped several claims. The retreat underscored how quickly the legal theory was thinning out.
Trump used November 15 to repeat that the election was rigged, but the gap between his rhetoric and the state of the record kept widening. The problem was not just that he was losing legal fights; it was that his public case was not getting better.