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In the US state of Georgia, all votes cast in the presidential election are re-counted by hand. Responsible Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Wednesday. He justified this with the narrow gap between the two candidates. In Georgia, a recount can be requested if the difference between candidates is less than 0.5 percent.
Joe Biden was last in Georgia with about 14,000 votes or 0.3 percent in the lead, based on the current state of the count, 2,471,981 people in the state voted for him. Biden would become the first Democratic Party politician since Bill Clinton in 1992 to win the Georgia presidential election.
In the end, however, the state ceased to be decisive for electoral victory. With the victory in Pennsylvania, Biden now has enough voters to move into the White House.
The race for seats in the Senate is central
The race for the two Senate seats in the state is likely to be more important than the bottom line of the recent recount in Georgia.
A Senate with a Republican majority could make it difficult for future President Joe Biden to govern. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that he would block policies under a Democratic president.
“Confrontation of all clashes”
According to the AP news agency, the electoral campaign is already in full swing. Democrat Jon Ossoff tries to oust Republican David Perdue from the Senate, while his party colleague Kelly Loeffler wants to defend his Senate seat in a duel with Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock.
Warnock won the most votes of 21 candidates in the November 3 election. Because he clearly lost the outright majority, there will be a runoff on January 5. That day, the duel between Perdue and Ossoff will also be decided in a second round. So far, polls predict a close result.
The importance to Republicans and American politics as a whole can also be seen in the campaign’s supporters and the words they choose. Famous Republican Senator Marco Rubio from Florida appeared at a Loeffler event. Rubio spoke of the “confrontation of all confrontations,” according to the AP. “This is Georgia’s decision. But the United States will live with the consequences,” the senator said.
Trump’s team claims to have discovered the deceased on the electoral rolls
Meanwhile, incumbent Donald Trump’s team wants to demand the counting of votes in several states. In Georgia, Republicans on Wednesday named the names of four deceased who, according to records, had been voted in state elections.
More examples would follow, he said. In Michigan, Trump’s lawyers filed the lawsuit announced the day before, in which they focused on obstructing Republican observers during the vote count.
Trump and his team have repeatedly made unsubstantiated accusations that there were irregularities and fraud in the elections. There is no evidence for this; In Pennsylvania, an alleged key witness recently dropped his forgery charge.
