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Sunday, November 22, 2020
Donald Trump’s attempt to sue for an electoral victory does not appear to be fruitful. In Pennsylvania, his attorneys have now suffered another defeat: Federal Judge Matthew Brann dismissed a lawsuit by Trump’s campaign team that had requested the invalidation of millions of votes by mail. In his reasoning, Brann spoke of “unsubstantiated forced legal arguments” and “speculative accusations.” The lawsuit was filed by Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani. He said that the outcome of the elections in the state could not be certified because some voters were allowed to correct errors on their vote-by-mail ballots.
+++ 01:04 Georgia voting officer becomes a person with the Republicans +++
Brad Raffensperger has been a Republican and a Trump supporter from the beginning. Now he has lost the favor of his party. Because in his capacity as an election official in Georgia, the secretary of state had to proclaim the uncomfortable truth to his party friends that Joe Biden won all 16 votes in the state. After the manual recount, 12,000 votes remained as an advantage to the Democrats. He wished Trump had won, especially in Georgia, Raffensperger told CNN. “But the results are what they are.” However, his fellow party members don’t want to accept that. The two Republican state senators had asked the secretary of state to resign just a week after the elections. And the state governor publicly urged him to investigate the alleged electoral fraud, for which there is no evidence whatsoever. Raffensperger’s wife has even received death threats. CNN writes that the “conservative Christian Republican” has become an outcast within the Republican Party.
+++ 21:55 Republicans ask election examiners in Michigan for a break +++
Trump is sending Republicans from Michigan to delay confirmation of the election result in the state. Actually, this should happen on Monday afternoon. A joint letter from the Republican National Committee and the Michigan Republican Party asked the election review committee to postpone the formal measure for 14 days. There are two Democrats and two Republicans on the election review committee. So far, no powerful arguments are known from Trump to justify a delay, other than rather vague allegations of fraud.
+++ 21:15 Biden’s postal voter in Pennsylvania, and what Hugo Chávez has to do with it +++
The Trump campaign is fighting by all means against the confirmation of the results in the controversial states. Trump’s campaign for Pennsylvania has now announced that it will challenge pending confirmation of the outcome. In Pennsylvania, this formal measure must take place on Monday. And the way things stand right now, Democrat Biden won there. Trump describes the many mail-in ballots in the state as “illegal” and is pressuring the election administration to remove the votes from the count. The crude reasoning of the Trump campaign: Mail-in votes are part of a democratic conspiracy, voting machines are rigged, Communists, billionaire George Soros, and the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez play a (rather unclear) role in the narrative. Apparently, everything is to delegitimize Biden’s victory.
+++ 20:16 Trump has three other people executed before handing over the charge +++
Donald Trump uses his last days in office to resolve issues that his successor Biden can no longer undo. And this really is irreversible: Trump has three more executions scheduled in the Justice Department, in addition to the two already planned, until January 20, that is, until the inauguration. The death penalty has not been applied at the federal level for 17 years. There have been eight executions this year, more than in the last half century. Human rights groups are now demanding that Trump suspend executions until Biden is in office. Biden speaks out against the death penalty and is likely to break with Trump’s practice.
+++ 19:15 Confirmed results: The position in the tug of war for the US elections +++
Small middle result, don’t be alarmed: Donald Trump leads Joe Biden in the polls! But only if only voters who come from countries that have already certified the election result are counted. So it’s 63 to 35 for the headline. Short explanation: the certified result is something like the official final result in Germany. In individual electoral districts, the census is completed and then verified to be complete and correct. That happens again at the state level. This procedure must be completed by December 8th. However, some states have already ended; Among other things, the result was certified yesterday in a particularly competitive Georgia. As a reminder: Georgia had to be counted again and it was a fine advantage for Biden. Because it is so tight, Trump may request a recount. Certification is still pending in five particularly competitive states: Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. With the exception of Wisconsin, these states will present a final result next week.
Read what happened on the US election ticker here.
