While President-elect Joe Biden’s 306-232 lead in electoral college votes was reaffirmed Thursday in a recount in the state of Georgia, President Donald Trump once again launched efforts to reverse the outcome of the U.S. election after of failing to mount a credible legal challenge on the battlefield, he says he lost.
Biden, who turned 78 on Friday, and his team have maintained a public stance of confidence in the result. “It is difficult to understand how this man thinks,” he told reporters on Thursday. “I’m sure he knows he hasn’t won and he’s not going to win, and we will be sworn in on January 20.”
The Democratic president-elect spoke with disapproval of Trump’s behavior, which he considered “totally irresponsible” and sent “harmful” messages to the rest of the world about how democracy works, sending a “horrible message about who we are as a country.” .
Georgia’s manual vote recount lasted six days, but it did not come as any real relief to Trump. However, you can still seek another recount under state election rules. Wisconsin, for its part, began a two-county recount on Friday, as required by the Trump campaign.
Trump and his Republican allies have filed more than 30 lawsuits since November 3, when they closed the polls for the 2020 election. They first alleged electoral fraud and irregularities, and then withdrew, indicating how weak they were.
They’ve also put forward wild conspiracy theories, as have Rudy Giuliani, the US president’s personal attorney, and others at a press conference Thursday that was widely criticized as “crazy” even by Trump allies.
Mitt Romney, a Republican senator who has criticized Trump, said: “Having failed to present a plausible case of widespread fraud or conspiracy in any court of law, the president has now resorted to open pressure on state and local officials to subvert the will of the people and revoke the election. It’s hard to imagine a worse and more undemocratic act by a sitting US president. “
Trump invited a group of Republican lawmakers from Michigan, a battlefield state he lost, to the White House on Friday in an attempt to persuade them to reject the election result.
Trump lost Michigan, which has 16 electoral college votes, by more than 150,000 popular votes and earlier tried to persuade local Republican officials not to certify the result in the state’s largest county, which is mostly black. It has not yet been successful.
The US president will have to implement this strategy based on the use of the power of his office in other states to overturn the verdict 306-232 and could target Georgia (16 electoral votes) and Arizona (11), states with Republicans in control. of legislatures and governorates.
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