The five stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

We are stuck on number three, bargaining, in the Trump campaign’s post-election bid to win back the presidency. The latest in some 50 unsuccessful lawsuits came not from the campaign itself, however, but from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who sued Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — four of the battleground states in which President-elect Joe Biden bested President Donald J. Trump — arguing that coronavirus-related changes to election rules in those states were unconstitutional, even though Texas also made changes. Seventeen red states joined the Texas suit, as did Trump and 106 Republican members of Congress.