Lawyer Marc Elias has in some ways been the Democrats’ Forrest Gump of election controversies, showing up in the most high profile election cases of the past two decades.
Elias’ involvement spans the improbable Senate victory of comedian Al Franken in 2008 to litigation both before and after the 2020 election.
The lawyer’s reputation may have been the reason a spokesperson for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe suggested the campaign “try to kill” a Fox News story that the campaign paid $53,000 to hire Elias, said Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
“I would suspect the reason they wanted to kill the story is that Marc Elias’ clients are often candidates that lost elections, and no candidate wants to give the impression they are worried about losing,” von Spakovsky told The Daily Signal.
McAuliffe, a Democrat who was Virginia governor from 2014 to 2018, faces Republican Glenn Youngkin on Tuesday in seeking the position again.
Here are four things to know about Elias, 52, and his role as a top election lawyer for Democrats.
1. Flipping Elections, or Trying to Do So
Elias helped turn a few Democrats who appeared to have lost on election night into winners.
He was not part of the legal fight over Florida’s electoral votes in the disputed...
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