washington president donald trumps campaign lost court rulings in the closelycontested states of georgia and michigan on thursday even as it vowed to bring a new lawsuit challenging what it called voting irregularities in nevadain the georgia case the campaign alleged 53 latearriving ballots were mixed with ontime ballots in michigan it had sought to stop votes from being counted and obtain greater access to the tabulation processstate judges tossed out both the suits on thursdayjudge james bass a superior court judge in georgia said there was no evidence that the ballots in question were invalidin the michigan case judge cynthia stephens said i have no basis to find that there is a substantial likelihood of success on the meritstrump allies alleged that there had been voting irregularities in nevadas populous clark county which includes las vegasa trump campaign spokeswoman did not respond to requests for comment on the michigan and georgia rulingsvotes are still being counted in all three states among a handful of battleground states that could decide the presidency democratic challenger joe biden has a narrow lead in nevada trump a narrow lead in georgia and biden has been projected to win in michiganat a news conference in las vegas on thursday former nevada attorney general adam laxalt and other trump campaign surrogates including former administration official richard grenell gave no evidence to support their allegations of irregularities and did not answer questions from reporterswe believe that there are dead voters that have been counted we are also confident that there are thousands of people whose votes have been counted that have moved out of clark county during the pandemic laxalt saidhe said a lawsuit would be filed in federal court to ask the judge to stop the counting of improper votesjoe gloria an election official in clark county told reporters there was no evidence of improper ballots being processedbob bauer a senior advisor to bidens campaign called the various trump lawsuits a meritless distraction and said the strategy was designed to undermine the integrity of the electoral processthis is part of a broader misinformation campaign that involves some political theater he saidtheyre intended to give the trump campaign the opportunity to argue the vote count should stop it is not going to stop he told reporters on thursdayelection legal experts have said trumps legal strategy is unlikely to have a decisive impact on the outcome of the electiontrump has repeatedly said that he expects the us supreme court which has a 63 conservative majority including three justices he appointed to have a key rolebut it is unlikely the court would have the final word in any decisive way and any challenge would have to make its way through the usual court process legal experts sayin pennsylvania where trump is narrowly leading but biden is making gains the trump campaign and other republicans have already filed various legal challengesan appeals court in pennsylvania on thursday ordered that trump campaign officials be allowed to more closely observe ballot