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American media announced that Biden had won the presidential race
US election officials called the presidential race “the safest in US history,” dismissing allegations of wrongdoing by President Donald Trump.
The committee responsible for the elections said: “There is no evidence of loss, cancellation or change of vote, nor fraud in the voting process.”
The statement came after Trump spoke, without proof, of “canceling” 2.7 million of the votes he received.
Trump is still reluctant to admit that his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, won the presidency.
All the major American television channels predicted the results of the November 3 elections.
The BBC hopes that Biden wins Arizona to deepen the difference between him and Trump. This is the first time the state has voted for a Democratic candidate, since 1996.
Trump has filed a large number of court cases protesting the voting results in major states, alleging widespread wrongdoing.
What is the meaning of this statement?
The statement was issued by a joint committee that includes the Electoral Commission and the Government Coordination Council, which is made up of senior internal security officials, the Electoral Assistance Committee, and government observers.
The statement is a direct rejection of the allegations by Trump, who did not provide evidence of fraud.
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The committee said: “Elections are on November 3 / November was the safest in American history. So far, the elections are still reviewing the entire process in order to determine the final results. ”
He added: “We know that there are many complaints that are not based on evidence and opportunities for media misinformation about the electoral process, but we assure you that we have full confidence in the security and integrity of our elections.” The statement did not mention Trump by name.
The statement was published on the website of the Electronic Security Agency, affiliated with the Ministry of National Security.
Agency director Christopher Krupps is believed to have upset the White House with a website affiliated with his agency called “Rumors Watcher” that refutes media misinformation about the elections.
On Thursday, Kropz posted a blog entry by an electoral law expert that said: “Please do not post tweets with baseless accusations about voting machines, even if they are from the president.”
The agency’s deputy director, Brian Ware, resigned Thursday at the request of the White House, according to Reuters, which expects Krupps, in turn, to be fired.
Hours before the statement was released, Trump wrote a blog saying that millions of votes from voting programs had been cast in 28 states, but did not provide any evidence of his allegations, which appear to come from a mysterious television channel. called “One America News”.
The allegations are linked to a miscalculation in the vote count at a position in Michigan that gave Biden the victory and then returned to Trump with a correction on November 6. State officials acknowledged what happened and said it was human error, not a flaw in the voting programs.
In a separate statement, former President Barack Obama, a Democrat, said that senior Republican officials were damaging democracy when they backed Trump on his fraud allegations.
“It is another step to delegitimize not only the upcoming Biden administration, but democracy in general, and this is a dangerous business,” he said in a statement to CBS News ahead of the release of his new memoir, “Promised Land.” .
Do Republicans Support Trump?
A small but growing number of Republicans asked to deal with the president-elect and provide him with daily intelligence.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a big Trump supporter, said that Biden should start getting presidential secrets as usual with presidents-elect.
Senators Chuck Grassley, John Cornyn and John Thwin agree with him, though House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Biden “is not president now and he has to wait.”
The number of Republicans in Congress who congratulated Biden or accepted the need for the transfer of power ranges from 10 to 20 members, but most of them did not recognize the victory of the new president.
Democratic Senator Chris Kohn told CNN that some Republicans had asked him to congratulate Biden by name because they were too embarrassed to do so in public.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Republican politicians “deliberately question our elections for no other reason than fear of Trump.”
Journalists believe Republican lawmakers fear the backlash from Trump’s electoral base because he won the most votes of any candidate for office in US history, even if his loss is expected.
Lawmakers are also believed to hope to help Trump in the second round of the January Senate election in Georgia, in which it is decided whether Republicans will retain a majority in the upper house of Congress.
Badin currently leads 5.3 million votes for Trump, or 3.4 percent, and has enough polls to win the presidency.
Trump has been out of sight since the election. He is reported to have told friends that he wants to launch a digital media company to compete with the conservative Fox News channel which he believes has not been sufficiently supportive of him.
