
Nevertheless, the Trump campaign legal team says it will appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Republican Senator Pat Tommy said the ruling closed off any chance for a legal victory in Pennsylvania and called on Trump to drop the election.
A hearing on the Trump campaign's federal lawsuit seeking to prevent Pennsylvania officials from certifying the vote results remains on track for Tuesday at the courthouse after a judge quickly denied the campaign's new lawyer's request for a delay.
Following Raffensperger's announcement, The Associated Press made its final call for the presidential election, projecting that Biden had won Georgia and received 306 electoral votes compared to Trump's 232, winning the 2020 United States presidential election.
Republican state lawmakers from MI whom Donald Trump summoned to the White House on Friday in an extraordinary effort to try to set aside Joe Biden's victory, indicated they would certify the state's results.
Brann also admonished the Trump campaign for presenting no factual proof of voter fraud or other allegations - evidence that Giuliani and Trump's supporters have repeatedly said is in the works but has never materialized. " "Instead, this court was presented with tense, unfounded legal arguments and speculative accusations, unsupported in the spoken complaint and not supported by evidence".
"In the United States of America, this can not justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth-most-populated state", the ruling read.
The lawsuit argued that there was a violation of "equal protection under the law" since primarily Democratic counties took different approaches than those that were primarily Republican.
Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani during a press conference earlier this week.
"This claim, like Frankenstein's Monster, has been haphazardly stitched together", wrote Brann.
Trump responded to Cheney in a tweet on Saturday, writing: 'Sorry, Liz, the election results with hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes can not be accepted, which is enough to overturn the election easily. Potential contenders for top spots in the administration have included longtime Democratic aides as well as some of Biden's former rivals in the 2020 presidential campaign.
There's been a slow drip of congressional Republicans calling for the transition process to begin so that Biden can be ready to assume office in January, even as most have stood by his actions.
The recount of roughly five million votes found that the former Vice President received 12,284 more votes than the President in the traditional Republican stronghold. NBC's Decision Desk has named Biden the apparent victor in both states. "Fake ballots, dead people voting, no Republican Poll Watchers allowed, & more!" he wrote.
Joe Biden will announce the first of his Cabinet picks on Tuesday, a senior aide said on Sunday (Nov 21), as the president-elect moves ahead with planning for his incoming administration while President Donald Trump showed no sign of abandoning his long-shot bid to overturn the United States election.
Also on Saturday the Trump campaign called for another recount in Georgia, a day after a by-hand recount confirmed Mr Biden's win in the state.
"No one has come up with any evidence of fraud or abuse", he said.
Mr. Trump's lawyers made similar arguments in a MI lawsuit, accusing the city of Detroit of election irregularities, but the campaign withdrew that lawsuit on Thursday.
The campaign said it "has to include signature matching and other vital safeguards".