Donald Trump falsely claimed in Tuesday night's presidential debate that all of his election lawsuits failed in 2020 only on "a technicality."

The claim came while ABC News moderator David Muir fact-checked Trump's false statements about the 2020 election that he attempted to overturn.

"And we should just point out here as clarification — and you know this," Muir started. "You and your allies, 60 cases in front of many judges — many Republicans — looked at it, and said there was no widespread fraud."

Trump started talking over Muir as he was finishing his sentence.

"No judge looked at it," Trump replied.

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"They said we didn't have standing," he said, referencing to a legal term for the right to bring a lawsuit based on one's connection to the issue at hand.

"That's the other thing," he said. "They said we didn't have standing. A technicality. Can you imagine a system where a person in an election doesn't have standing, the president of the United states doesn't have standing? That's how we lost."

But Trump and his allies had dozens of cases appear live before judges in hearings, including 30 that were heard on the merits.

All but one of those cases failed. Judges dismissed them after the hearings. Appeals judges decided against Trump's allies. A judge in Arizona even dismissed the case from the bench during an evidentiary hearing.

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