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Georgia, where President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden fought in the United States presidential election, decided to count the 5 million votes by hand. Georgia, where 99% of the votes are counted, is ahead of President Trump (49.2%) by 0.3 percentage points, with Biden-elect winning 49.5%. The difference is about 14,000 votes.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Rapansperger said on the 11th (local time) that “the 100% count will be done completely manually” and “even if NEC members are working overtime, the results will be they will get by the 20th “. Georgia usually uses a random sample poll when counting, but this time the difference between the candidates’ votes is so small that it plans to manually recheck the 5 million votes.
Secretary Rapansperger drew a line and said: “The decision to recount is not due to the request of Trump Camp.” But Georgia’s decision to recount is reportedly driven by heavy pressure from the Trump camp. Republican Minister Rapansperger was criticized by his supporters for “not handling electoral fraud properly” when President Trump’s defeat in Georgia was confirmed. Republicans Kelly Loeffler and Georgia State Senators David Purdue even demanded that he resign.
President-elect Biden has secured a majority of 290 voters (including Arizona), even excluding Georgia, so even if President Trump remembers and backs down on Georgia, the results of the presidential election will not change. However, there is a reason the Republican Party cannot give up on Georgia. First, the chance is slim, but there is no hope that Trump’s presidential victory will be possible if Georgia’s game is reversed through a recount and more reversals through lawsuits or recounts in other racial states. Actually, the biggest reason is the urgency that you should never delay here, as the majority of the Senate, just as important as the presidential election, is decided in Georgia. In Georgia, a final vote will be held in January next year for two Senate seats. The Republican Party currently has 50 out of 100 seats in the Senate. If all Republican candidates are defeated by Democratic candidates in the final vote, the number of seats in the Senate will be 50 to 50, and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will also serve as Speaker of the Senate, which will cause the Democratic Party to seize. become the majority of the Senate. The Republican Party, which lost the presidential election and missed the majority of the House of Representatives, has to fight for life or death in Georgia in many ways.
In a situation where the second round of the Senate has become important, rallying supporters through the recount of the presidential elections is an essential strategy for the Republican Party. On the contrary, the Democratic Party has no choice but to heed, as President Trump’s allegations of fraudulent elections may be strengthened and the Senate elections are likely to suffer if the game is overruled on the recount. Politico, a news outlet specializing in US political science, reported that “Biden sent Election Countermeasures Headquarters Chief Jen O’Malley Dylan to Georgia to take care of the recount situation.”
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