62 lawsuits in 9 states, 30 dismissed on merits, several from Trump appointed judges.
My recollection is that when the cases went to court, the lawyers backed away from claims of fraud: https://time.com/5914377/donald-trump-no-evidence-fraud/
Trump was consistently losing in all polls in 2020.
538 had Trump’s odds at 10%: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/
Betting markets had him at ~35%: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/betting_odds/202...
Biden was favored in MI, WI, NV, PA, AZ, FL, NC and GA on Election Day meaning he had many paths to victory.
And polls were pretty accurate for Biden:
State - Polling Avg. (Result)
MI - 51.2% (50.6%)
WI - 52.1% (49.5%)
NV - 49.7% (50.1%)
PA - 50.2% (49.9%)
AZ - 48.7% (49.4%)
FL - 49.1% (47.9%)
NC - 48.9% (48.6%)
GA - 48.5% (49.5%)
The surprise wasn’t that Trump lost in 2020, is was that based on polling averages that he didn’t lose by more.
I do know that many of the "merits" you cite were never litigated. Were there any cases where the court granted discovery? So how can anyone guess at what a court would decide about the matter? Many of the news articles I read at the time suggested that the courts were just not interested in opening up cans of worms.
The polling average numbers are from Project 538. The dropdown lets you navigate to each state.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/
The election results are from Wikipedia.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_president...