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Joe Biden is projected to win the state of Georgia, as media reports say Donald Trump is considering running again in 2024.
President-elect Biden garnered another 16 Electoral College votes with his expected victory in Georgia, bringing his final tally to 306 votes, according to Sky News affiliate NBC News.
The state has not voted for a Democrat in nearly 30 years, although it is subject to a vote count since the margins between the two candidates were so narrow.
Democratic Party lawyer Marc Elias has said he is confident the recount will not change the results of the Georgia elections.
In another blow to the president, the Washington Post reported that more than 130 Secret Service officers assigned to protect Trump isolate themselves due to the coronavirus. It is unclear how many have tested positive.
Meanwhile, Trump is expected to win North Carolina, which he also won four years ago, with a total of 232 votes.
Commentators have noted that each candidate garnered a similar number of votes in the 2016 presidential runoff between Trump and Hillary Clinton, though they traded, giving the Republican victory.
The president has yet to grant the choice, despite numerous news networks declaring Biden the winner, and several Republican candidates have followed suit by refusing to budge.
However, NBC News reported that Trump could end up conceding before announcing that he will run again in the next election.
Conservative commentator Eric Bolling, who has been friends with the president for 20 years, said he believes a concession is “probably imminent.”
He told Sky News that he hopes Trump will wait until after a big Republican march in Washington DC on Saturday.
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“It’s clearly not going to disappoint those people, it’s going to wait at least until after that. But then it will announce a race for 2024,” he said.
The president has repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that there has been widespread electoral fraud that hurt his chances of being reelected and in a tweet on Friday said the vote was “rigged.”
Donald Trump is said to be considering running again in the next election
In an interview with the Washington Examiner, he said he believed he could turn the election in his favor in two to three weeks.
Trump suggested that the results of the counts in Wisconsin and Georgia could get him back, although Biden has a considerable advantage in both states, and also claimed that he could win back Michigan and Pennsylvania through challenging court votes.
Election officials have dismissed the fraud allegations, and two security groups have said there is no evidence that the ballots have been deleted or lost.
The Executive Committee of the Government Electoral Infrastructure Coordinating Council (GCC) and the Sector Coordinating Council for Electoral Infrastructure (SCC) have said the election was the safest in US history.
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Trump spoke Friday in his first public comments since Biden was projected to be the winner in the presidential race, focusing on his plan to accelerate the launch of a coronavirus vaccine.
Democrats have harshly criticized the administration’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attributed the Secret Service outbreak to the “reckless program of the Trump campaign.”
At a press conference, the president said he expected a vaccine to be available as early as April, adding that he would not impose a nationwide lockdown, despite the increase in the number of coronavirus cases and deaths.
