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WASHINGTON: The reelection campaign of United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday (November 18) called for a partial recount of the results of the Wisconsin presidential election, as part of its risky attempt to reverse the victory of President-elect Joe Biden.
While staying out of the public eye, Republican Trump has persisted in expressing his anger on Twitter, where he made allegations of voter fraud, some of which were not supported by evidence and others were proven to be false.
Election officials in Wisconsin, as well as Georgia, said it was highly unlikely that recounts in those states would reverse Trump’s losses.
Biden, a Democrat, warned that continued delay in recognizing him as the winner could mean the United States will be “weeks and months behind” in preparations to distribute a coronavirus vaccine.
Trump’s unsubstantiated claims that the election was “rigged” are failing in court, but opinion polls show they have a political benefit, and up to half of Trump’s Republicans believe them, according to a Reuters / Ipsos poll. .
The Wisconsin Elections Commission said it would oversee the counts in two heavily Democratic counties, Milwaukee and Dane, which includes Madison, after the Trump campaign paid the cost of $ 3 million, less than the estimated cost of $ 7. , 9 million from a state count.
Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell said the count would begin Friday and end in a few days. Only a few hundred votes changed in the county count after the 2016 presidential election, he said.
“My guess would be that by focusing on Dane and Milwaukee, the end result will be that Biden will have a slight increase in votes, but nothing terribly significant, certainly nothing close to what it would take to change the results,” McDonell said.
In the state-by-state Electoral College that determines the winner of the election, Biden got 306 votes to Trump’s 232. He won the popular vote by more than 5.8 million.
Biden won Wisconsin by more than 20,000 votes to bring Trump from 49.5 percent to 48.8 percent.
United States President-elect Joe Biden receives a national security briefing via video conference in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 17, 2020 (Photo: REUTERS / Tom Brenner).
“In Detroit, there are MANY MORE VOTES THAN PEOPLE. There is nothing you can do to cure that giant scam. I win Michigan!” tweeted.
City records show that 250,138 votes were cast there in the presidential election. That’s just over a third of the city’s population, which according to the United States Census Bureau is 670,031.
DEADLINE DECEMBER
States face a December 8 deadline to certify election results in time for the official Electoral College vote on December 14.
Congress is scheduled to count the Electoral College votes on January 6, which is normally a formality. But Trump supporters in the Senate and House of Representatives could challenge the results in a final, risky attempt to deprive Biden of 270 electoral votes and deliver the final decision to the House.
A Reuters / Ipsos poll released Wednesday showed that roughly half of Republicans believe Trump “won legitimately” but had the election stolen from him.
Seventy-three percent of all voters surveyed agreed that Biden won, while 5 percent thought Trump won. But when specifically asked if Biden had “won legitimately,” 52 percent of Republicans said Trump won legitimately, while only 29 percent said Biden had won legitimately.
Election officials from both parties across the United States have said there was no evidence of vote rigging, and a federal review reached the same conclusion.
Trump on Tuesday fired America’s top cybersecurity official, Chris Krebs, who had upset Trump by refusing to support the allegations of voter fraud.
At a federal court hearing in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, United States District Judge Matthew Brann was skeptical of Trump’s request to prevent officials from certifying Biden’s victory in that state by more than 80,000 votes. .
Biden has said that Trump’s defiance could jeopardize efforts to contain growing COVID-19 cases and inhibit vaccine distribution planning in a country where more than 248,000 people have died from the pandemic.
Biden was due to meet with healthcare workers on the front lines of the crisis at a virtual roundtable from his home state of Delaware on Wednesday.
As he fights to save his presidency, Trump will stay in Washington over Thanksgiving break next week, instead of traveling to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, a spokeswoman for first lady Melania Trump said.
