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Some Trump supporters, following the president’s own lead, insisted that there must be something wrong with any tally that showed Biden winning, and they brought their rifles and pistols to rallies outside of counting centers in Detroit and Phoenix, Arizona. Dressed in the Trump supporter uniform of red “Make America Great Again” baseball caps, some fell to their knees in public prayer.
“It’s hard to believe we all went to bed Tuesday night and Trump was so far ahead and now he’s late,” said George Vosca, a 72-year-old retired Illinois government employee, after driving an hour to join a pro-Trump. rally in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol building in Madison.
His wife, Marcia Vosca, also voted for Trump even as she acknowledged his flaws: “The thing is, he’s really an idiot,” Vosca, 64, said of Trump, and her husband nodded emphatically. “But we can all relate to being an idiot.”
Raised fists and boos
Most of the demonstrations have been peaceful and relatively small, although tensions have occasionally erupted. Overnight in New York City, police pushed protesters, journalists and at least one elected official as they made arrests and tried to get anti-Trump demonstrations off the roads.
In Detroit, anti-racism protesters rallying behind the slogan Black Lives Matter entered an area cordoned off by police for Trump supporters on Friday. Standing defiantly with fists in the air, Trump supporters, including armed members of the militia groups, approached, taunting, before police intervened, driving the anti-racism protesters elsewhere.
Some pro-Biden observers gathered outside the police cordon. One waved a sign that read, “Land to losers, go home!”
In Arizona, another hotly contested state, a growing crowd of several hundred Trump supporters returned to the counting center in Phoenix from around Maricopa County, where some 142,000 ballots remained to be counted as of Friday morning. anticipated.
Among them was Kota Bermudez, a 22-year-old driver for online retailer Amazon, who braced himself for disappointment.
“I know he’s losing right now, especially in the battlefield states,” he said. “But I hope that with all the legal stuff that is going on and all these mail ballots and so forth, whether legal or whatever, I just want this to be a fair and free election.”
Reuters
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