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This was reported by Noticias Caracol from Washington, at a time when Democratic candidate Joe Biden leads Trump by 264 votes (if Arizona is included) by 214 for the president-candidate.
In the most recent counts, Joe Biden widens the lead over Trump in Nevada and shortens Trump’s lead in Georgia, The New York Times notes.
“If they count the illegal and late votes, they can steal the elections from us,” was the other part of the message that Trump gave through his campaign team, in a statement.
These expressions, says Noticias Caracol, They are the ones that have penetrated many of Trump’s voters and for this reason there have been demonstrations in different parts of the country, with the slogan “count every vote.”
Even Donald Trump’s son joined in this complaint, as this trill shows:
🚨🚨🚨 The amount of FRAUD being reported in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Georgia, and Wisconsin is incredible. Report personal experiences. Have all the facts and evidence. #StopTheSteal pic.twitter.com/leJJh2XhXd
– Eric Trump (@EricTrump) November 5, 2020
The Trump campaign asks that the votes that arrived after Tuesday and denounced that they had not been allowed to see the opening of the polls be taken into account. To that, the authorities of states like Michigan said that the vote count will continue.
Portland, the epicenter of the wave of anti-racist demonstrations and anti-police brutality this year, was the only city where marches were violent.
The protesters who ask for the careful counting of the votes would be motivated by Donald Trump’s accusations that they want to steal the elections, says The New York Times, and that claim is made by both Donald Trump and Joe Biden followers.
In contrast, other protesters betting on Biden yell:
“We want Trump out of the presidency, that is the main objective!” Shouts that fortunately have not led to outbreaks of violence in the streets of cities, beyond small skirmishes, picks up the New York media.
In New York, thousands of Biden supporters marched peacefully down Fifth Avenue to demand “every vote count.”
A crowd of all ages with posters blocked vehicular traffic and marched to the beat of drums and chanting slogans.
“Donald Trump claimed victory before each vote has been counted and we want to send the message that this is not acceptable,” Sarah Boyagian, 29, a member of the organization that called the march, told AFP.
In Detroit, Trump supporters were calling for the count to be halted in the key state of Michigan, in a tense protest outside a polling place, but it did not move on, as Global News reports.
Also in Arizona, another of the key states, television images showed followers of the president meeting outside of a vote counting office in Maricopa County, where Phoenix is located.
Some protesters carried weapons – which is legal in this state – and police officers were trained in front of the building to protect it, AFP reports.
Just before midnight on Wednesday, Maricopa authorities released new numbers from the scrutiny with which Trump shortened Biden’s lead in Arizona from 79,000 to less than 69,000 votess, with 86% of the votes counted.
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