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The campaign for the presidential re-election of Donald trump announced that it will demand the counting of votes in three key states. In Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, places where it is expected that it will be defined who will take the keys to the White House, the process has taken longer than expected due to the massive participation of vote by mail.
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These three states, with the passing of the hours, have shown a favorable statistical trend for the former president Joe biden. Therefore, the Republican campaign will go to court to try to stop those counts, without presenting evidence so far.
The president accused the electoral authorities of prohibiting observers from approaching within 7.6 meters of the counts. “We are suing to temporarily halt the count until there is meaningful transparency and Republicans can make sure all counting is done according to law.”Said campaign deputy director Justin Clark in a statement.
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Meanwhile, Trump’s team denounced without evidence that there have been irregularities in “various” counties in Wisconsin and that in Michigan their delegates did not have access to the count at “numerous” locations.
At a disadvantage in Wisconsin, where the CNN chain and The New York Times, citing the AP agency, consider Biden the winner, Trump announced his intention to request a recount, denouncing that there are “reports of irregularities” and questioning the “validity From the results”.
With 94% of the votes counted, Biden leads Trump by about 20,000 votes. The former Democratic president Barack Obama won Wisconsin by seven points in 2012. Four years later Hillary clinton he didn’t even bother to campaign there and lost by less than one point.
In Michigan, the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit in court to suspend the count. “We have started a lawsuit in a Michigan claims court to stop the count until we are granted meaningful access“The Trump campaign said in a statement, without providing evidence that they have been banned from the premises.
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The Republican president’s team also asked that the votes already counted be reviewed while his team allegedly did not have access. The campaign indicated that it would take legal action to suspend the count when votes from very favorable areas remain to be analyzed. Democrats including Detroit, a city where there is a significant African-American presence.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson tweeted a map with the phrase “patience is a virtue.” With Trump and Biden head-to-head in the race, the votes of Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
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AFP AND EFE
