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Donald Trump (74) continues to deny his defeat in the US presidential elections and has filed more demands to annul the result of the vote. In the important state of Pennsylvania, his lawyers are attacking the vote counting and voting-by-mail system.
Trump also reiterated his allegations of fraud regarding the Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin elections in a series of tweets on Monday. There are still no confirmed cases of electoral fraud in favor of president-elect Joe Biden (77).
“Nevada turns out to be a cesspool of false voices,” Trump wrote on Twitter, promising “absolutely shocking” revelations. Twitter immediately provided a warning to the president’s tweet because it was a controversial assertion about the election.
Georgia’s electoral chief confirms irregularities
Trump also wrote that he would win the state of Georgia, where Biden is ahead, “like election night.” Biden had taken the lead after the mail-in votes were counted. In light of the crown pandemic, Democratic voters in particular had voted by mail. The state’s lieutenant governor, Republican Geoff Duncan (45), said on CNN Monday that he had not learned of any significant cases of voter fraud. Given the adjusted result, a recount in Georgia is highly likely.
There were certainly cases of illegal voting in Georgia, wrote the secretary of state responsible for elections, Brad Raffensperger (65) on Twitter. “Were there any illegal votes?” Raffensperger asks. “I’m sure there was.” But it is unlikely they would have been big enough for Trump to win the state.
Raffensperger rejects the demands after his resignation: “As Secretary of State, I will continue to fight every day for fair elections to be held in Georgia, that every legal vote counts and that illegal votes do not count,” he wrote in a statement.
United States Attorney General Allows Prosecutors to Investigate Voter Fraud
Meanwhile, US Attorney General Bill Barr (70), according to media reports, has given prosecutors permission to investigate allegations of voter fraud before the final results are announced. Such proceedings are likely to be initiated if there are “clear and seemingly credible allegations of wrongdoing” that could have influenced the outcome of elections in a state, the minister said in the letter to prosecutors. This was reported on Monday night (local time) by the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, among others.
Generally, prosecutors can only act once the final results are available. After the November 3 election, this could take days or weeks, depending on local law. States must have reported their certified final results to Washington by December 8.
Republicans divided
One of the lawsuits brought by Trump’s Pennsylvania attorneys is the president’s accusation that Republicans were denied the opportunity to see a large chunk of the vote count. Republicans also argue that when it comes to voting by mail, some districts with a high percentage of Democrats violated the rules and the system as a whole is vulnerable to fraud. Pennsylvania, with 20 electoral votes for the presidential election, was a crucial state that helped Biden win.
GOP leader Ronna McDaniel, 47, admitted she did not know if legal action would be enough to turn the outcome in Trump’s favor. Trump’s spokeswoman, Kayleigh McEnany (32), hinted at a press conference that Democrats would approve of the fraud. The “Fox News” television station, which has sided with the president in recent years, later went offline because the allegations were not proven.
The influential leader of the Republican majority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell (78), spoke on Monday only of the “preliminary results” of the elections. “President Trump has one hundred percent the right to investigate allegations of wrongdoing and examine his legal options,” he said in the Senate.
So far, only four Republican senators have congratulated Biden
So far, only four senators from the Republican side have congratulated Biden on the electoral victory: Mitt Romney (73), Lisa Murkowski (63), Susan Collins (67) and Ben Sasse (48). They were previously known as deviants from the core of the Republican Party, and they could play an important role for Biden as president if Republicans maintained control of the Senate.
For this, the second-round elections for the two Senate seats in Georgia in early January should be decisive. Republican incumbents David Perdue (70) and Kelly Loeffler (49) asked the secretary of state to resign after the election results because the vote was poorly organized. He rejected the accusations.
The incumbent president speaks of voter fraud after Tuesday’s election and hopes to reverse Biden’s victory by taking legal action. Biden was declared the winner on Saturday based on US media forecasts. Meanwhile, heads of state and government around the world congratulated Biden on his victory. (SDA / kes)
