Raffensperger had to stamp the election results by 5:00 pm local time (11:00 pm CET) on Friday. Trump may request another recalculation due to the close distance from Biden. This would be done on readers. Trump has until Tuesday 17:00 local time (23:00 CET) to submit the application. “The audit confirmed that the original machine counting accurately identified the winner of the election,” Raffensperger said on Thursday night local time.
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According to the original results, Biden led by about 14,000 votes, after recalculation his lead decreased to 12,670 votes. The review thus changed the original national results by about 0.1 percentage point in favor of Trump. “The recalculation process has simply confirmed what we already knew: voters in Georgia have chosen Joe Biden as their next president,” a spokeswoman for Biden’s campaign commented.
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Trump refuses defeat
However, Trump no longer recognizes the results. His team still claims that there were a number of fraudulent tickets among the votes counted, although local election officials refuse to do so. Trump and his people criticized the recalculation and demanded that the signatures on all tickets sent by mail, which number about 1.3 million, be rechecked.
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According to Trump, Georgia officials refused, not allowing him and his team to check the signatures.
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The Governor of Georgia, and Secretary of State, refuse to let us look at signatures which would expose hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots, and give the Republican Party and me, David Perdue, and perhaps Kelly Loeffler, a BIG VICTORY…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 20, 2020
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Now Trump is focusing on Michigan, where the results are also close. He has met Republicans there and wants the Republican legislators to declare him the winner
Mike Shirkey and Lee Chatfield, presidents of both chambers of the Michigan parliament, met with him. But both said after the meeting that they would stick to their commitment to recognize the election results.
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“We are now unaware of any information that could change the results of the Michigan elections, and as presidents of legislators, we will stick to the law and the normal election process in Michigan,” they both said in a joint statement after meeting with Trump. “The process of confirming the elections in Michigan should be judicious, without threats and intimidation,” they added. Both have previously refused to try to reverse Biden’s victory in Michigan. He got about 154 thousand more votes there.
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Trump found other enemies who were trying to undermine his efforts to defend the post of president. According to him, they are supposed to be big pharmaceutical companies because he wanted to reduce the prices of prescription drugs: “Big pharmaceutical companies have put millions of dollars into a negative campaign against me,” Trump said. And he immediately added: “And by the way, I won … You know, you can find it, I got almost 74 million votes. And we had big pharmaceutical companies, media and big technology companies against each other. ”Biden won six million more voters and 306 voters on his side, while Trump has only 232.
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