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- The results from Georgia could underpin Joe Biden’s victory in the US elections.
- This when Donald Trump withdrew his lawsuit for a recount in Michigan.
- Biden is the president-elect with 306 electoral votes over Trump’s 232.
The US presidential battleground state of Georgia was expected to affirm Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump on Thursday after a painstaking recount, as Trump’s re-election campaign said it was withdrawing a lawsuit in Michigan.
The official in charge of implementing Georgia’s voting systems, Gabriel Sterling, told Fox News that the state’s audit and recount were almost complete and on track to verify Biden’s advantage. He called the allegations of wrongdoing in voters “savage mischaracterizations.”
“The good thing was: the audit did its job” by finding some small batches of uncounted votes that were being counted that morning, he said. “The count is going very well.”
In the state-by-state Electoral College that determines the winner of the election, Biden, a Democrat, has garnered 306 electoral votes to Republican Trump’s 232, well ahead of the 270 needed for victory. The winner in each state receives the electoral votes of that state, a number roughly proportional to the population.
The Trump campaign has filed lawsuits in several states with little success so far. Those legal motions, peppered with factual errors, have been dismissed by the Biden campaign as “theatrical.”
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Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said Thursday the campaign was withdrawing its lawsuit challenging the results of the vote in Michigan, where this week Biden was certified as the winner in a series of tangled events.
Two Republican members of the Wayne County canvass board initially voted Tuesday to block the certification of the vote before reversing their decision after angry backlash from the public.
But both signed affidavits on Wednesday to cancel their confirmation of Biden’s victory, saying they had changed positions under pressure. A spokesman for the Michigan secretary of state’s office said the post-event statement did not prevent the ballots from being certified.
One of the two, Monica Palmer, confirmed by text message to Reuters on Thursday that Trump had called her to register after the vote was certified.
Trump has fewer and fewer options to overturn the results of an election in which Biden won an additional 5.8 million votes across the country. Biden is due to be sworn in on January 20.
