It's definitely political in nature in terms of timing, but it's also been a long time coming. The main reason there aren't more left-leaning states on the lawsuit is that they wanted to wait a little longer and build more of a case: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/16/justice-department-...

My hope is that DOJ doesn't blow this because they went too early. This is the level of investigation of large tech companies I have wanted for a long time.

I thought it was weird that the list of states seemed to also be the list of battleground states that Trump needs to win.

It is deeply political! It was filed by the Trump administration's DOJ and 11 states -- and the attorney general of each of those 11 is a Republican.

However...

There's also (supposedly) another lawsuit by a bunch of Democratic states that is in the works (and, of course, several lawmakers from both parties are also on board the "break up Google (and other big tech companies)" train).

If (i.e., when) that happens, the lawsuits will likely be consolidated.