Georgia, a key region for President Trump’s “manipulated election” claims, has reaffirmed Joe Biden’s victory.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Rappensperger said at a press conference on the 7th (local time) that “the presidential election has passed on the 34th,” and “the legal ballot was counted three times, and the results are unchanged,” reported the political media The Hill. I did.
He said the election result was recertified according to the result of a second recount, reaffirming Biden’s victory by about 12,000 votes.
Georgia, which has already certified Biden’s victory after a manual recount, confirmed Biden’s victory after another mechanical recount did not change the results.
It has been 28 years since the Democratic presidential candidate won the Republican garden in Georgia.
Prior to recertification today, a federal judge in Georgia dismissed a lawsuit filed by President Trump’s Sydney Powell lawyer to overturn Biden’s victory.
Trump Camp filed a lawsuit in state court on the 4th to revoke certification of election results and order a new ballot in the state.
“Today is an important day for the integrity of the elections in Georgia and across the country,” said Secretary of State Rappensperger, making a statement and proclaiming the court’s dismissal and election certification. It turned out to be.”
“The residents of Georgia know that their legitimate votes have been counted accurately, fairly and reliably, and now they can move forward.”
It is likely to be a big blow to President Trump, who repeatedly insisted on election fraud in front of supporters after visiting Georgia on the 5th of the campaign to support the Senate runoff vote.
President Trump continues to argue that the presidential election has been extensively manipulated, refusing to acknowledge the results for a month since the 7th of last month, when the presidential election was predicted to be defeated.
In particular, President Trump called Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Tuesday to overturn the election results and pressure the state legislature to request a special session to appoint an electoral group to support him, and Governor Kemp said he refused.
Both Governor Kemp and Secretary of State Rafensperker are Republicans.
Governor Kemp and Vice Governor Jeff Duncan issued a joint statement saying it is unconstitutional to use the legislature to ignore state election procedures.
Secretary of State Rappensperger, who has been a strong advocate of election integrity, reiterated that while investigators are still investigating some illegal voting claims, there is no evidence of widespread fraud or criminal activity.
“All this talk of stolen elections, whether Stacy Abrams or US President, hurts our state,” he pointed out.
Abrams was a Democratic candidate who was defeated in 2018 against then-current Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and did not win the election results.
“The comments by Secretary Rappensperger are the most recent remarks that undermined President Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the presidential election, and it comes one day ahead of the deadline for each state to resolve all election-related disputes.”
Each state finalizes the list of electors on the 8th, and the electors officially elect the next president on the 14th.
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