People forget that his entire legal strategy was predicated on his understanding that the constitutional deadlines imposed on the whole process meant there was no time to pursue the kind of legal challenge that was needed to expose the chicanery that made the whole election such a farce.
Time was an issue. But Rudy should not have been standing out there with S. Powell making the case that she did. It compromised his credibility on their legal strategy, and made them look incompetent.