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Reuters Wilmington / Washington, Nov. 18: incumbent U.S. President Trump’s campaign team requested a partial recount of Wisconsin state election results as part of their efforts to reverse Biden’s victory, but it is unlikely Success.
Although far from the public eye, Trump has always insisted on taking his anger out on Twitter, tweeting that there is election fraud, some of his claims are not supported by evidence, and other claims are obviously false.
Election officials in Wisconsin and Georgia stated that the vote count in these states is highly unlikely to reverse the outcome of Trump’s defeat.
US President-elect Biden warned that continued delay in acknowledging that he won the election may mean that the United States “takes several weeks or even months” to prepare for the distribution of the new crown vaccine.
Trump’s accusations that the election was “rigged” were unfounded and lost in court. But public opinion polls show that these accusations have a political effect, and a Reuters / Ipsos poll shows that half of Republicans believe them.
The Wisconsin State Elections Commission said it would oversee the recount of two counties that are heavily skewed toward the Democratic Party: Milwaukee County and Dane County. Madison is located in Dane County. The Trump campaign paid $ 3 million in fees, which is lower than the estimated cost of a state tally of $ 7.9 million.
Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell said the count will start Friday and end in a few days. He said that in the 2016 presidential election, the county counted only a few hundred votes.
“I suppose the end result of focusing on Dane and Milwaukee counties will be a small increase in Biden’s votes, but there will be no significant change, certainly not to the extent that it may change the election results,” McDonell said. .
Biden won 306 electoral votes in the election, while Trump only has 232. At the same time, Biden’s popular vote outstrips Trump by 5.8 million votes.
Biden’s popular vote in Wisconsin is more than 20,000 more than Trump’s, with vote support rates of 49.5% and 48.8%, respectively.
To be re-elected, Trump needs to revoke the results of at least three elections in the main states, reaching the threshold of 270 electoral votes. It will be unprecedented.
Trump is pinning his hopes on Georgia, which is manually counting votes, in hopes of clearing Biden’s 14,000-vote lead there, while challenging Michigan state election results.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told CNN Wednesday that the state’s tally is unlikely to change the outcome of Biden’s victory.
“We are wrapping up, and we are still waiting for more counties and some large counties to give us the results, but I don’t think the overall results will change in the end,” Raffensperger said. (End up)
Compiler Du Mingxia / Wang Can / Liu Xiuhong; Reviewer Wang Hongying / Li Tingyi / Dai Suping
