Trump campaign sues over Nevada polls’ late closing

The Trump campaign sues over Nevada polling places staying open after hours to accommodate long lines. Rudy Giuliani, a Trump surrogate, is especially angry.

Politico’s Mel Leonor reports:

“Democrats call it paranoia and Republicans call it reasonable suspicion,” Giuliani said on MSNBC. “How about you play by the rules? If you close at 9:00, you close at 9:00.”

A legal action filed earlier today by the Trump campaigned alleges that a polling place in Clark County, Nevada stayed open two hours past its designated closing time. The Republican poll watcher there says the extension allowed an additional 150 to 300 people to line up. But a county judge dismissed the action, saying that the campaign hadn’t yet exhausted its options with local officials.

Giuliani said the extensions may go further than today’s complaints, adding that he was in the state campaigning for Trump over the weekend and came across complaints that “two or three polling places had been kept open two or three hours long.”

“Whatever they found today is probably piled on top of that,” Giuliani said.