Jonathan P. Baird: Echoes of the Wilmington coup d’état in 2020 election aftermath Published: 12/21/2020 6:11:06 AM As the Trump campaign desperately flails for an avenue to use to reverse the presidential election results, they returned to a tried and true approach: throw out Black peoples’ votes. The Trump campaign has complained about Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta, and Philadelphia votes, all places with very high concentrations of minority voters. The various Trump lawsuits all play on the idea that predominantly Black votes are corrupt and that their votes should be excluded. That is the argument Rudy Giuliani, the president’s lawyer, has been making.