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The United States Electoral College confirmed Democrat Joe Biden as president-elect on Monday. The event means a blow to the current president, Donald Trump, who tries to stay in power by refusing to accept his defeat and making constant accusations, without foundation or proof, about an alleged fraud in the elections.
His claims, in the context of the electoral race, attracted enormous attention, so donors across the country have been willing to give hundreds of millions of dollars. But this sets its sights on the money raised by the president in his fight, at all costs, for the White House.
(Read here: Why would Trump’s defeat in the Electoral College be the final one?)
Since November 3, Election Day, $ 207.5 million has been raised by the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee (CNR), according to the magazine. Forbes, who spoke of that data on December 4.
US President-elect Joe Biden.
Chip Somodevilla. AFP
“75 percent of the money that is being received is destined to a new Political Action Committee (a PAC, in its acronym in English, that is created to support candidates and are not subject to quantum limits) called ‘Save America’ , which the Republican launched on November 18 and which aims to support his political activities after leaving “power, wrote in early December the Spanish newspaper The country, citing US media.
However, according to CNN, only when that percentage reaches $ 5,000 does “the money go into the account for the Trump campaign count.”
According to information from Forbes, the money would be used to “continue to lead the fight to clean up our corrupt electoral process,” as Bill Stepien, Trump’s campaign manager, put it.
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But experts, from before the elections, predicted other purposes for the funds. The director of federal reform for the Campaigns Legal Center group, Brendan Fischer, told the BBC that the proceeds could end up “supporting a political career” for Trump and “potentially even filling his own pocket after he leaves the White House.”
The United States Senate, led by Mike Pence, must confirm the results of the elections.
In November, as lawyers for the president were already taking legal action in several key states to challenge the results, Joshua Douglas, a professor at the University of Kentucky, told AFP that the purpose of this appeared “to undermine the trust of voters in the legitimacy of elections and fundraising. “
One of Trump’s most recent and successful attempts to excite his supporters was on December 5, when he again declared himself the victim of an election robbery at his first post-election rally, assuring a crowd of people that he would end up winning the elections.
Now, although the confirmation of Biden’s victory deals a coup de grace to Trump’s attempts to reverse the results, it is still possible that the outgoing president will try to interfere in the last phase of the process, when Congress meets on 6 of January to give its approval.
(Also: Biden says Trump ‘has refused to respect the popular will’)
The two houses of Congress have yet to meet to put the final seal on the results of the elections, in a session headed by the current US Vice President, Mike Pence, who chairs the Senate.
Although it is a new exaggerated strategy and with a very difficult goal to achieve, Trump’s allies have already announced that they will continue in the fight to stay in power until the last moment.
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* With information from Efe and AFP
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