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US President Donald Trump said on Thursday (5), again without providing evidence, that is being stolen when counting votes in presidential elections. This time, among other accusations, he identified as fraudulent the margin declines that he had as leaders in some states.
“We were winning in several states by a large margin, but the votes began to magically change,” said the Republican. Trump said once again that he would take legal action against alleged election irregularities.
In Georgia, one of the key states to define this year’s elections, the difference in votes between Donald Trump and Joe Biden decreased to 3500, according to the Associated Press projection.
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The difference is approximately 0.1% of the state votes that can give the winner the vote of 16 delegated votes. Trump has, so far, 2,445,539 popular votes (49.42%), while Biden has 2,441,904 votes (49.35%).
In Pennsylvania, the gap between Trump and Biden fell to 75,000 . In the fourth, the Republican advantage was 618,000 votes. An eventual change in status would guarantee Biden’s victory in all electoral projections.
Donald Trump speaks at the White House: ‘They’re trying to steal the election’
Trump said that the decisive areas for this year’s elections, such as Detroit, Michigan or Pennsylvania, are corrupt and are part of a corrupt system.
When he began to question the fairness of the electoral system without evidence, big networks like ABC and NBC, they took his speech off the air.
In several states, mail-in votes, which tend to give Democrats an advantage, began counting only after votes cast in polling stations.
The Republican candidate separated the “legal votes” from the “illegal votes” to say that he would have already won. However, he did not say how they would receive this rating.
“If they count the legal votes, I win easily, if they count the illegal votes, they try to change the result,” Trump said before accusing important areas, such as Philadelphia, of corrupt.
Philadelphia was halted in the counting of votes Thursday due to a legal dispute in which Republicans won in court the right to stand 1.5 meters from people counting the votes to observe the count. The city administration appeals.
Trump spoke about the episode and said they want to keep Republican watchers too far from the count because there is an intent to commit fraud.
Earlier, Democratic candidate Joe Biden urged Americans to calm down in a short speech in Wilmington, Delaware.
He said he hoped the recount would confirm the Democratic Party victory and argued that “all votes must be counted” (see video below).
Joe Biden calls for calm to voters eager to count
“Democracy sometimes breaks down. Other times, it needs patience,” he said.
This year, the popular vote count may be even longer than usual due to the high number of early and mail ballots. “We have no doubt that when the countdown is over, we will be winners,” Biden said.
Earlier, the Democrat spoke quickly about the new coronavirus crisis and lamented the deaths in the country. The United States is the country most affected by the pandemic with more than 230,000 deaths from Covid-19.
