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According to reports from the Associated Press (AP), Donald Trump called two influential judges from the state of Michigan to the White House today, a state that won the Democratic candidate by more than 154,000 votes (provisional results), to continue with the idea of convincing judges and local legislators to sideline the popular vote and change Republican-elected voters.
The transfer of two senior officials from Michigan to Washington comes at the same time that vote counting began today in Wisconsin’s two most democratic counties, with the Trump campaign trying to shake off tens of thousands of votes cast by absentee voters who , he claimed, should not have been counted.
Trump’s three objections in an attempt to revoke the votes were rejected by all three members of the Dane County council. Trump is expected to raise the same objections in Milwaukee County ahead of a court challenge once the count is complete, perhaps on Wednesday, the AP said.
Biden won Wisconsin by 20,600 votes and won Dane and Milwaukee counties. Trump only paid the counts in those two counties, but not in the other 70, where he was victorious in 58 of them.
The AP recalls that there is no precedent for a recount to exceed a deficit as large as Trump’s in Wisconsin, so his strategy is widely seen as, read in the AP, “another attempt to create a case that leads to Court” .
Still in relation to Michigan, earlier this week, Trump personally convened two campaign council officials who refused to certify the results in Wayne County, the state’s most populous and who voted overwhelmingly for Biden.
The two Republican campaign officials, the AP said, would have agreed to certify the results, but after a phone call from Trump, they changed their minds.
Some Michigan lawmakers reported being inundated with calls and emails from Trump supporters demanding intervention, responding that state law “clearly requires” voters to be nominated by the party that gets the most votes, “the law does not. it does. ” allows the nomination or approval of alternative voters ”.
Michigan’s effort, the AP continues, is among “several last-minute tactics” that Trump and his allies are using to avoid electoral defeat.
Trump’s team also suggested a legal challenge in Pennsylvania to override the popular vote and pressure Arizona county officials to delay the certification of vote counts.
In the White House, they were also discussing extending an invitation to the Republican legislative leadership of Pennsylvania.
This afternoon, the White House, however, denied that Trump intended to pressure Michigan lawmakers not to certify the election results.
“[Trump] will be in a meeting later. This will not be a match to defend [a sua causa], nor will we talk about the campaign. It is a routine meeting that involves legislators from across the country, “said White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany.
On the other hand, it was announced late Thursday that the vote count in the US presidential elections in Georgia confirmed Biden’s victory.
The initial recount gave the Democrat only about 14,000 votes ahead of Trump, forcing a manual recount. The gap narrowed slightly, with Joe Biden now holding a lead of just over 12,200 votes.
The difference between the two candidates is still very small and Trump, who disputes defeat, can therefore request a new recount, clarified the office of the Georgia secretary of state, responsible for the elections.
Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election on November 7, after having conquered three important states: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Biden has 306 delegates to the Electoral College, to Trump’s 232. To win, he needed 270 “big voters.”
