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The president of the United States, Donald Trump.
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- US President Donald Trump is looking for another vote recount, this time in Wisconsin.
- This is part of his attempts to reverse the election result, which he has lost.
- Trump has already lost bids for counts in other U.S. states.
US President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign said Wednesday that it was seeking a partial recount of the results of Wisconsin’s presidential election, as part of its risky attempt to reverse the victory of President-elect Joe Biden.
While staying out of the public eye, Republican Trump has persisted in expressing his anger on Twitter, where he made allegations of voter fraud, some of which were not supported by evidence and others were proven to be false.
Election officials in Wisconsin, as well as Georgia, said it was highly unlikely that recounts in those states would reverse Trump’s losses.
Trump’s unsubstantiated claims about election rigging are failing in the courts, but opinion polls show they have a political benefit, and as many as half of Republicans believe it, according to a Reuters / Ipsos poll.
His campaign Wednesday transferred $ 3 million to Wisconsin to cover the costs of counting votes in Milwaukee and Dane counties, two heavily Democratic areas, less than the $ 7.9 million a full recount would have cost statewide.
Biden, the Democrat, won Wisconsin by more than 20,000 votes to lead Trump 49.5% to 48.8%.
Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell said the count would begin Friday and end in a few days. Only a few hundred votes changed in the county count after the 2016 presidential election, he said.
Outcome
“My guess would be that by focusing on Dane and Milwaukee, the end result will be that Biden will have a slight increase in votes, but nothing terribly significant, certainly nothing close to what it would take to change the results,” McDonell said.
Trump’s refusal to grant the November 3 election is blocking the smooth transition to a new administration and complicating Biden’s response to the coronavirus pandemic when he takes office on January 20.
In the state-by-state Electoral College that determines the overall winner of the election, Biden obtained 306 votes to Republican Trump’s 232. He won the popular vote by more than 5.8 million.
To stay in office, Trump would have to overturn the results in at least three states to reach the 270 electoral vote threshold. That would be unprecedented.
The president is also clinging to the hope that a manual recount ordered by the state of Georgia could erase Biden’s 14,000-vote lead there and is also challenging the results in the state of Michigan.
