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Monday, November 30, 2020
With a recount, the president of the United States, Trump, wanted to change the result of the elections in Wisconsin, but does not succeed. The result should rather please his opponent Biden.
In the United States, President Donald Trump has to accept another setback in his efforts to avoid his electoral defeat in retrospect. The count of the ballots in Wisconsin did not change things, on the contrary. His challenger Joe Biden even won a few dozen votes and is still the winner in the state that won with a 0.7 percent advantage. A later defeat would not have changed anything about his overall victory there. Such a narrow result allows for a count at the request of one of the parties.
According to the local media outlet “Milwaukee Journal Sentinel”, Biden obtained 132 votes, Trump a total of 45, representing an increase of 87 votes for the winner of the election. With a total of three million votes cast, Biden now has a 20,695 vote lead. Ballots were not counted statewide, only in the two electoral districts with the most democratic leadership. There, Trump’s Republicans are likely to have discovered the best chance of winning votes.
Another reason may have been the cost. This must be assumed by the party requesting the count. For the entire state, this would have cost eight million dollars, but the party only had to pay three million dollars for the reduced version. With the result available from Sunday, Trump’s chances of a subsequent electoral victory in the state are diminishing. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, there are still two pending lawsuits. Trump himself tweeted on Saturday that many “illegal voices” had been found in Wisconsin and that another trial had been announced.
Trump maintains accusations
Despite similar setbacks in other states like Georgia, the president has so far stuck to his accusations that there was massive voter fraud. Neither he nor his lawyers have provided evidence. Still, his comments catch a lot of Republicans, at least. A poll in early November showed that 70 percent of supporters did not believe the elections were “free and fair.”
Wisconsin sends ten voters to the Electoral College that will elect the next president of the United States on December 14. From a formal point of view, the November 3 elections only brought a decision on which candidate the electorate of a state should vote. Biden had won 306 electoral votes, Trump 232. Since then, the incumbent has announced that he will leave the White House if Biden is officially elected president, but has yet to acknowledge Biden’s victory.
