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They have chanted “Count the legal votes! We’re watching you! “Outside the building where poll workers continue to count votes.
Tensions escalated on Saturday, with protesters at one point threatening to tear down the fence that cordoned off the elections department and some members of the group’s media.
Several far-right groups and militiamen such as the Proud Boys and Three Percenters were also in the crowd on Saturday, many of them armed with semi-automatic weapons.
The protesters at one point clashed with a small group of young counter-protesters waving Mexican and American flags on a corner in front of the elections department. Jacki Valencia, 19, danced with a Biden-Harris sign while a man who had waved a “Blue Lives Matter” flag shouted “USA!” her and the others.
“I think it is ridiculous that they have gathered here,” he said. “They have no evidence that there was fraud.”
The Trump campaign lawsuit contends that potentially “determining” votes in the contest between Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, who was declared the winner on Saturday by major television networks, were not counted.
An Arizona official denied the claim. “This is just a delaying tactic to delay official scrutiny,” Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said in a statement through her spokeswoman. “They are grabbing straws.”
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