After a disappointing night for Democrats on Tuesday, where their hopes of an early victory for Biden have turned to steam, the race in Georgia is watching with Republican alarm and discomfort as the race dwindles, with Trump’s lead slipping to nearly 23,000 votes during Wednesday’s count. Due to the overwhelming turnout of black voters in Atlanta’s fast-growing suburbs, it became clear that Biden would cost Georgia better than past Democratic presidential candidates, while many expected a presidential race in a credible red state that Democrats did not have. Won since 1996 to get closer to this.
With hundreds of thousands of mail-in and early absentee votes being counted on Pennsylvania’s main battlefield, Trump’s lead has shrunk dramatically. Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Booker said Wednesday evening that the state has made “excellent progress” in the counting of ballots, but estimates that it is “days before the majority ballots are counted.” Many of those pending votes are mail-in ballots that have returned to the heavily democratic area of Philadelphia.
Trump’s campaign advisers have insisted they could pave the way for Arizona’s most populous Maricopa County, which released its latest ballot early Thursday morning, giving Biden’s Arizona a mere 69,000 votes. On Wednesday night, Arizona Secretary of State John CNN of CNN said more than two-million votes remain unaccounted for, indicating that the count of Maricopa County could take several days.
Nevada election officials, who released very little information Wednesday about an estimated 200,000 ballots remaining, said they would report the results of their new results by midday on Thursday.
CNN Projects will win at least three of Biden Maine’s four voter votes, including Wisconsin, Michigan, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Virginia, California, Oregon, and Washington, Washington State, Illinois, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New Mexico, Chicago, New Mexico. New York, Vermont, Delaware, Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., Maryland, Massachusetts, and Nebraska. Nebraska and Maine award their statewide winners two electoral votes and share their other electoral votes by congressional districts.
CNN Projects Trump Montana, Texas, Iowa, Idaho, Ohio, Mississippi, Wyoming, Missouri, Kansas, Utah, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arkansas, Indiana, Texas, Indiana. And four of Nebraska’s five voters.
A confident biden pleads for patience and unity
To show an aggressive stance and determine the president’s intent to stay in the game, Trump’s team launched a series of lawsuits in major war states that sound less about legal logic and more about slowing the former vice president from marching on the election voting threshold.
Biden chose a more carefully calibrated route, briefing reporters that he believes he is on track to win 270 election votes but does not declare victory. He dismissed Trump’s attempts to undermine the results, saying “people rule. Power cannot be exercised or said.”
“There will be no blue states and no red states when we win. Only the United States of America,” Biden said Wednesday afternoon as he promised to bring the country together. “We are not enemies. What brings us is as strong as the Americans than what the Americans tear us apart.”
Trump mounts an aggressive legal strategy to fight the consequences
As he has seen his margin narrow, Trump has dispatched legal teams to the critical states and instructed his employees to find ways to aggressively challenge the results.
As part of that strategy, the Trump campaign plans to ask the court to intervene in a case challenging the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Pennsylvania ballots to be counted after election day. The judges refused to expedite the appeal before the election, and were considering whether to pursue the case.
Trump and his campaign team tried to cast doubt on how he bounced late to win Biden in the crucial state of Wisconsin, where Democrats thrived on mail-in and early voting, which counted after the ballots cast in most of the ballots. Person on election day.
Trump said the campaign Wednesday would seek a recount in Wisconsin while mounting legal challenges in Michigan and Georgia.
“The president is inside the door to request a vote (in Wisconsin) and we will do it immediately,” Trump’s campaign manager Bill Stepian said in a statement.
Stephen noted that the results “show a razor thin race because we always knew it would be” and claimed that there were irregularities in many counties in Wisconsin, but did not specify what the campaign believed was an irregularity.
With the state-by-state approach to the campaign, ITD Clear inconsistencies emerged in Trump’s strategy: Trump seems to be trying to stop vote counts in backward states like Pennsylvania and Michigan, while demanding that all votes be counted in states where he believes. The president has the opportunity to reach Biden, as in Arizona and Nevada.
Candidates may ask for a recount in Wisconsin if they are within 1% of the winner’s total vote – but a recurrence cannot be requested until the canvas is completed, which may be the end of November 17. It seems very likely that the size of Biden’s lead in Margin Wisconsin, about 20,000 votes, could change again in a single count. But with a margin of less than 1%, the Trump campaign has the right to request a recount.
Trump, in phone calls with some of his colleagues on Wednesday, offered less enthusiastic support for his team’s legal strategy, resigned the short-term plan and questioned why his team did not successfully challenge pre-election voting rules, though. CNN The report states that he was ready to see it.
Trump also said in the campaign that he is filing a lawsuit in Michigan, asking the state to suspend its counting because a number of counting locations have not been given meaningful access to observe the voting and counting process guaranteed by Michigan law. “
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s spokesman Ryan Jarvey said in a statement in response to the lawsuit’s threat that “Michigan’s elections have been conducted in a transparent manner, giving access to both political parties and the public.”
Trump campaign officials said Wednesday afternoon that they believe the president can lead them in Pennsylvania, but they are also suing K. Manvelth, claiming that Democratic election officials are hiding the “vote count and process” of Republican poll observers. Is.
Trump’s deputy campaign manager, Justin Clark, said the lawsuit was intended to “temporarily suspend the vote count until meaningful transparency is achieved and that Republicans can ensure that all ballots are counted up and by law.”
The president has been making baseless claims that the elections that seemed more favorable to him late Tuesday evening, before the early tabulation of early votes began, were being stolen from him and demanded that the counting of votes should be stopped in some areas. An appearance in the East Room of the White House early on Wednesday in which he falsely claimed that he was a “shameless threat” to democratic principles subject to the US political system.
“As far as I’m concerned, we’ve already won it,” Trump said, drawing a picture of the differences with the true state of the race. Earlier, Biden warned each party to wait for the vote to be counted, saying “we have to be patient until the counting of votes is completed.”
And while the president has long threatened legal challenges to the election, without resorting to violence at polling stations or threatening people to cast their ballots, especially before attempts by Trump to discredit the voting process.
But the election did not turn into a massive scandal of the president and his sunken ball presidency, which Democrats had hoped for. Trump showed significant support, showing his support for predominantly white voters in rural areas and new alliances with groups of Latino voters in some states.
Many Democrats, including Mitch McConnell’s G.O.P. While the Senate was looking to end the majority, its blue wave has not yet been realized, although some key races are still undecided. And despite the goal of increasing their House majority, Democrats lost many seats and some Republicans were threatening.
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