The legal move appears to narrow the number of votes at stake in the federal suit to a few thousand or less. Officials at one suburban Philadelphia county, Montgomery, said at a court hearing earlier this month that they believe about 93 ballots were “cured.”

With President-elect Joe Biden nearly 69,000 votes ahead of Trump in the Keystone State, the number of cured ballots seems likely to be too small to matter. However, the revised version of the Trump campaign’s federal court suit continues to ask for a court order barring Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar from certifying the statewide election results for president.

The Trump campaign is continuing to press its legal claims about the poll-watching issues in state court. Trump had some success on that front, winning an order in Pennsylvania that allowed some observers to get closer to the ballots as they were being counted. The city of Philadelphia has appealed that order to the state Supreme Court.

U.S. District Court Judge Michael Brann has set oral arguments on the federal case for Tuesday and an evidentiary hearing for Thursday, but lawyers for the state said in a court filing Saturday afternoon that the narrowing of the suit leaves the case so flimsy that those court sessions don’t seem necessary.

“The extant state law issues still should be resolved by Pennsylvania state courts,” lawyers from Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office and the law firm Kirkland & Ellis argued on behalf of Boockvar. “Although the Secretary does not believe that oral argument is necessary to dispense with Plaintiff’s allegations and claims, counsel for the Secretary will appear and be prepared for argument as scheduled for Tuesday … if the Court still intends to hear argument.”

The move came on the same day that Trump sent a tweet that seemed to concede his defeat, before taking it back a little more than an hour later.

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told “Fox News Sunday“ that Trump was being “sarcastic” when he initially said of Biden: “He won because the Election was Rigged.”

While Trump’s flurry of litigation over the election has made little headway, the president insisted Sunday that more lawsuits are about to be unveiled and he suggested they’d be more spectacular than those already before judges.

“Our big cases showing the unconstitutionality of the 2020 Election, & the outrage of things that were done to change the outcome, will soon be filed!” the president wrote on Twitter.