The campaigns of the president, Donald Trump, and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, are holding their swords high on Wednesday before the vote counting in key states, while refining strategies to continue the
battle in the courts
.
In their respective press conferences, Trump and Biden affirmed that they are getting closer to a victory in the Electoral College, despite the fact that, according to our projections, the former vice president leads the president.
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For now, the race remains unfinished, but that does not stop Trump, who continues to insist,
without proof
, that there has been massive fraud or that there is an attempt to "steal" his reelection.
His campaign has called for a recount in Wisconsin, and has filed lawsuits to
curb the counting of votes
sent by mail in Michigan, Pennsylvania.
On Wednesday night the president's campaign announced that it would also file a legal challenge in Georgia to stop the mail ballot counting.
Biden has been declared the winner in Wisconsin and Michigan, while vote counting continues in Pennsylvania and Georgia.
Donald Trump's campaign demands a vote recount in Wisconsin
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This morning, Pennsylvania electoral authorities had 1.4 million ballots pending to count, out of nearly 2.6 million that were cast in advance, according to official data.
The Trump campaign explained that the lawsuits are aimed at
expanding the access of its observers
to the centers that count and process the ballots.
What is certain is that each party already has its official endorsed observers.
In parallel, however, a state court in Pennsylvania rejected a Republican lawsuit demanding Republican "observers" access to the vote count.
But the judge explained that the observers do not have any task to audit the votes and that the Philadelphia County board of elections is complying with state laws, according to NBC News, our sister network.
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For his part, Governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, said Trump demand is part of a "shameful" attempt to
"undermine the democratic process"
.
In a conference call with reporters, Biden's top campaign legal adviser Bob Bauer said this morning that if Trump finally goes to the Supreme Court, as he has threatened, "he will meet one of the most embarrassing defeats ever." suffered a president ”.
The vote count continues: this is how the close presidential electoral contest goes
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For his part, a spokesman for the Biden campaign, Andrew Bates, said that Trump's demand for a recount in Wisconsin is "a pathetic effort," especially when he calls for the count to be halted elsewhere.
"Plain and simple, Donald Trump lost in Wisconsin, they're losing Michigan, and he's
losing the presidency,
" Bates said.
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In announcing the lawsuit in Georgia, a key state that casts 16 electoral votes and continues to be contested, Republicans said they were seeking "to ensure a free and fair election in which only legal and valid ballots count."
Trump's advisers are nervously watching the final results in Georgia where the president has a very narrow lead that has been closing much more in recent hours.
Trump has 49.8% of the support so far, while Biden has 49%, with 95% of the votes counted.
The president's campaign has been unhappy with Biden's high performance in Georgia,
which was assumed to be a Republican stronghold.
Meanwhile, the Biden campaign has launched the so-called 'Biden Fund for the Fight', in which they ask for donations for legal expenses and thus respond to demands to protect election results that favor Democrats.
Biden's campaign manager, Jennifer O'Malley Dillon, made it clear that “the American people are the ones who elect their president;
the president does not choose which votes should be counted ”.