After a week, Donald Trump finally acknowledged, in a tweet, Joe Biden’s victory in the November 3 election. The US president, however, again resorted to the false argument that the vote was rigged to justify his defeat before the Democrat.
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“He won because the election was rigged,” Trump wrote on Twitter Sunday. “No inspector or vote watcher was allowed, a vote tabulated by a radical left private firm Dominion, with a bad reputation and bad equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I won by a lot!).
Twitter re-flagged the post for containing unverified information, as it has done with other Republican posts in the same vein.
An hour later, in another tweet, Trump sought to amend: “He only won in the eyes of the fake news press,” he said.
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Since his defeat became apparent eight days ago, Trump has been challenging Biden’s election victory, relying on false allegations of fraud that have been rejected by courts across the country and even by federal officials tasked with overseeing the fairness of the elections. .
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On Friday, 16 federal prosecutors who had been assigned to monitor the election wrote a letter to Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, saying there was no evidence of wrongdoing compromising the election results.
On Thursday, members of federal agencies and state associations responsible for overseeing the infrastructure of the US elections that ended on November 3 said they had found no signs of irregularity in the process. They refuted questions about the integrity and security of the vote, the basis of Trump’s arguments for rejecting his defeat at the polls.
“The elections on November 3 were the safest in the history of the United States. At this time, throughout the country, electoral agents are reviewing the entire process before certifying the results, ”said the joint statement of the Council for the Coordination of Government Electoral Infrastructure and the Executive Commission for the Coordination of Electoral Infrastructure.
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The Council and Commission are made up of federal agencies, most of which report to the Department of Homeland Security, and associations of state officials. They monitor different levels of electoral organization: voter registration, voting model and, most importantly, the security of the systems used throughout the process.
Biden had a projected victory for the evening of November 7, obtaining 279 Electoral College delegates, nine more than the required minimum. Last Friday, the American press also projected the victory of the Democrat in Arizona and Georgia, raising his total to 306 delegates, the same figure obtained in 2016 by Donald Trump, which this year had 232.
Nearly 80% of Americans, including more than half of Republicans, recognize Biden as the winner of the presidential election, according to a Reuters / Ipsos poll.
