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A good mood certainly looks different: Donald Trump also failed with the recount in Arizona
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The remaining US President Donald Trump is going to run out of states in his fight to overturn the lost presidential election.
After Georgia and Wisconsin, among others, had already confirmed Joe Biden's victory, Biden also remains the winner in Arizona.
Arizona's Secretary of State Katie Hobbs announced that Biden was roughly 10,500 ahead of Trump after the recount, and Conservative Governor Doug Ducey signed the relevant documents following Hobbs certification.
Eleven electors are available in Arizona.
Trump continues to claim without any evidence that he lost the election only because of massive forgeries.
Trump's campaign team did not provide any solid evidence of this.
Electoral officials and experts firmly reject the allegations, the Trump camp has already failed with numerous lawsuits.
Republican majority in the Senate shrinks
By confirming the election result, the majority of Republicans in the Senate will also shrink.
With Democrat Mark Kelly defeating incumbent Senator Marthy McSally, Republicans now have 52 instead of 53 votes in the Congress Chamber.
Because there was a special vote in Arizona, Kelly should be sworn in this week.
The remaining newly elected senators will not be sworn in until the new year.
Whether Democrats or Republicans will have a majority in the Senate will only be decided in two runoff elections in Georgia on January 5th.
If the Democrats win both places in Georgia, there will be a stalemate.
In this case, Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, has the casting vote.
Among other things, the Senate votes on candidates for central government posts.
This could limit Biden's freedom of action as president if the Republicans retain control of the Congress Chamber.
Biden has been preparing to take over official duties for weeks.
On Monday he nominated, among other things, the former central bank chief Janet Yellen as future finance minister.
He also announced his communications team, which consists exclusively of women.
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