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President Donald Trump’s campaign announced Wednesday that it has filed a court petition to stop the counting of votes in Pennsylvania, following petitions it filed regarding Michigan and Wisconsin.
The Trump campaign said it had filed a lawsuit to stop the counting of votes in Michigan and Pennsylvania, in light of Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s progress in the presidential election.
The Trump campaign accused those in charge of the electoral process of preventing their “observers” from approaching within about twenty feet of the counters.
“We have filed another petition to stop the count, pending real transparency,” said Trump’s deputy campaign manager Justin Clark.
The campaign said in a statement: “Today we have filed a lawsuit in the Michigan State Court to stop the census and have unrestricted access (to the census centers). We also ask to review those cards that were opened and counted without being able to see them.” .
Biden currently leads by more than 60,000 votes, with more than 99% of the votes counted in Michigan.
Democratic candidate Biden gained a slight lead over rival Trump in Wisconsin on Wednesday after officials ended vote counting in the crucial state in a major boost to his run for the White House.
Trump won both Wisconsin and Michigan in 2016.
The Edison Research Center stated that Wisconsin officials ended the vote count at noon after continuing through the night, and that Biden had advanced about 20,000 votes, or 0.6 percent. The Trump campaign immediately said it would request a recount in the state, which is allowed by law if the difference between the two candidates is less than one percent.
Biden’s victory in Wisconsin will significantly reduce Trump’s chances for a second four-year term, but the outcome has not been resolved and remains in doubt as votes continue to be tallied in hotly contested states, including Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and North Carolina.
Trump has made progress in two southern states, Georgia and North Carolina, and also in Pennsylvania, which has more than a million votes yet to be counted.
And with the loss of Trump, Wisconsin must win those three states, either with Arizona or Nevada, and the latter where Biden also leads, according to the latest vote-tally data.
Biden is currently ahead of Trump in electoral college votes, with the Democratic candidate gaining 248 votes to 214 votes for president. The electoral college votes depend on the population weight of each state, among other determinants.
In two telephone press conferences earlier today, officials from both campaigns confirmed that their candidate would win.
“If we count all the correct votes, we will win … the president will win,” said Republican President Donald Trump’s campaign manager Bill Stephen, setting the stage to challenge the vote count.
Biden’s campaign manager, Jane O’Malley Dillon, said Wednesday that he was on track to win the election, while Bob Bauer, his senior legal adviser, said Trump had no legal basis to invalidate the votes that had been cast. legally.
“We will defend that vote in which Biden was elected to the presidency,” he added, noting that the campaign’s legal team is ready for any appeal.
Trump continued his attack without evidence of the vote-counting process via Twitter on Wednesday, hours after declaring victory in an election that was far from decisive. Facebook and Twitter placed warnings in various posts by the president for making misleading accusations.
Trump said, “We were preparing to win this election. Frankly, we won this election.” He then led an extraordinary attack on the electoral process by a president in power, saying, “This is a huge fraud in our nation. We want to apply the law correctly. So we will go to the Supreme Court. We want to be.” All voting stops. “
Trump has not presented any evidence to support his fraud allegations and has not explained how he would challenge the findings in the Supreme Court, which does not consider direct appeals.
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In the popular nationwide vote, Biden on Wednesday secured a massive 2.6 million vote lead over Trump. But Trump defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016 after she got ahead of her in crucial states, even though she beat him in the popular vote by nearly three million votes.
Biden’s hopes for an early decisive victory have been dashed since Tuesday night, when Trump won in the crucial states of Florida, Ohio and Texas.
Biden won only once in Arizona, which had never voted for a Democratic candidate for 72 years before.
And in Pennsylvania, Trump got a massive lead by three million votes, but officials said they were working their way through the millions of votes sent in the mail deemed likely to favor Biden.
“This delay, which we see, is an indication that the system is working,” Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf said at a news conference.
And in an important state that has yet to be decided, Nevada, its officials said they would not announce an update on the census result until Thursday.
It was not clear what Trump was referring to when he said he would ask the Supreme Court to stop “the vote.” The Supreme Court does not hear direct appeals, but decides on the cases brought before it by the lower courts.
But legal experts said the election results could be affected by state-by-state appeals on a number of issues, including the ability for states to count late-mail votes and send them on the day of the election.
Even before voting day Tuesday, election campaigns saw a record number of lawsuits in dozens of states, as the Corona pandemic forced election officials to prepare for an unprecedented poll. Both campaigns mobilized teams of lawyers to prepare for any disputes.
Previously, the Supreme Court allowed the state of Pennsylvania to proceed with the counting of votes sent by mail on Nov. 3 and did not arrive until three days after Election Day, but several conservative justices indicated they were willing to reconsider the matter. . State officials plan to put those votes aside as a precautionary measure.
And before the election, Trump said he wanted the Senate to certify that his candidate for Supreme Court Justice Amy Connie Barrett would be among them if the court heard an election dispute. Democrats have criticized the president for seeming to imply that he expects Barrett to rule in his favor.
Trump has repeatedly said, without providing any evidence or evidence, that a large-scale vote-by-mail would lead to fraud, even though US election experts say such fraud is rare.
World leaders await the outcome of a crucial election in the United States, and most of them have avoided commenting on a candidate’s victory in light of the uncertainty. No American president has lost his bid for a second term since George HW Bush in 1992.
Trump seeks to conquer another state after four years of chaos, the most prominent of which was the Corona virus crisis, an economy severely affected by the isolation measures that were applied to face the pandemic, as well as a dramatic attempt to hold him accountable, investigations into Russian interference in elections, ethnic tension, and controversial immigration-related policies.
As for Biden, he is seeking to win the presidency in his third attempt to take office after a long political career that spanned 50 years and included his eight-year tenure as vice president under President Barack Obama.
