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All the states in dispute in the presidential elections have already certified their results.
In all cases, Joe Biden has been named the winner.
Despite this difficult adversity, President Donald Trump continues to allege cheating, trying to get the Republican authorities to change the results and thus risk shooting himself in the foot.
Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Nevada had previously determined their results. This means that they have gone through all the accusations of irregularities and possible errors and found that the elections were conducted correctly and that the deficiencies did not affect the outcome of the elections.
Yesterday, the last two contested states joined this crowd. Both Arizona and Wisconsin approved their results.
This means that the election result is now almost official. Joe Biden won the presidential election with 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232. All that remains is for the Electoral College to formally vote in the same way on December 14.
The certification process is usually purely formal and never attracts attention. Except just this year. This after President Trump, already immediately after the elections, claimed that there had been extensive electoral fraud. Without presenting evidence.
Since then, the president’s legal team in the courts of the states in question has sought to have the results overturned on the grounds of cheating. However, in almost all cases, the courts have rejected the claims on the grounds that no evidence has been presented.
A Republican Pennsylvania judge called Trump Camp’s lawsuit “a Frankenstein monster.”
Opportunities sold out
We are almost a month away from Election Day on November 3rd. The Trump campaign has more or less exhausted the legal possibilities of changing the electoral result.
Despite this, Donald Trump refuses to admit defeat.
In a tweet urging the governor of Georgia to revoke approval of the election results issued by the state general election. Since the law explicitly prohibits governors from running for office, it would be a crime.
Trump is still trying to nullify 230,000 mail-in ballots in Wisconsin.
At best, Trump’s actions appear eccentric. In the eyes of many, the president’s brazen attempts to carry out a coup continue.
The strangest thing of all is that the top Republicans continue to hold the presidency as he attempts to destroy the democratic institutions on which the United States of America rests. They fear being banned by Donald Trump and therefore risk the ire of voters loyal to Trump as well.
Let’s see how the election ended now that the results have been determined.
Georgia: Joe Biden’s margin of victory was 12,670 votes after hand recalculation.
Pennsylvania: Biden won by a margin of 60,000 votes. That’s nearly 20,000 more than Trump won the state in 2016 against Hillary Clinton.
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Donald Trump.
Decisive choice
Michigan: Biden’s margin of victory is 154,000 votes. Trump won the state in 2016 with 11,000 votes.
Wisconsin – Biden won with more than 20,000 votes. About the same margin that Trump won four years earlier. Biden increased his percentage of votes after the recalculation.
Nevada – Biden won by a margin of about 35,000 votes.
Arizona: Biden won with just under 10,500 more votes.
Trump became president in 2016 because he managed to win the normally democratic states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin by a total of 77,000 votes. Now Biden regained these states with a total margin of more than 230,000 votes, almost three times that.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton admitted defeat already on election night. In 2020, Trump will continue to allege voter fraud one month after the election and after all the results have been determined.
Without a doubt, two diametrically different ways of coping with a loss.
In addition to Trump’s embarrassing and dangerous behavior, he himself may lose twice.
In Georgia, reelection for the two senatorial seats awaits on January 5. Elections determine which party wins power in the Senate. If Democrats win both seats, they can control what investigations can be launched against Trump after he leaves the White House, for example, for his handling of the crown pandemic.
With Trump constantly complaining about voter fraud, there is a risk that some of his supporters in Georgia may not even think going to the polls is worth the effort. Thus, the president runs the risk of indirectly helping the Democrats come to power in the Senate.
His ego even seems to be bigger than his survival instinct.
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