The US election remains exciting, but it could be tight for Donald Trump.
Therefore, he may be planning another lawsuit against the vote count.
Donald Trump *
has already announced lawsuits in several
US states *
, the next one is looming in Nevada.
In a press conference, Trump's campaign team spoke of "irregularities" in the counting of votes.
This
news ticker
is updated regularly.
Update from November 6th, 12:36 am: Trump is there: “I won easily if you only count the legal votes. I guess I lost with the illegal votes. I've already won a lot of great victories, in Florida and Ohio for example. We won with historical numbers. The opinion polls were all wrong, there was no blue wave, it was scattered to distort elections.
We have won many new seats in Congress and more will be added.
I have the highest percentage of non-white voters a Republican has ever won.
The Democrats are the party of the big media and donors.
We have become the party of workers and inclusion.
The lying bogus polls should keep our voters at home.
Those were suppression polls, everyone knows that now.
Joe Biden was about five points clear, but I easily won Florida.
I won Ohio with my left hand.
The voting machine of the remaining states is controlled by Democrats.
This is shot in secret.
We made sure that there were election observers.
We won an important process.
There are many lawsuits ahead.
The postal voting system is corrupt, I've always said that.
Voices were withheld in Pennsylvania.
I won a lot in Georgia.
With 300,000 votes, I was ahead.
Since the number is calculated downwards.
Detroit and Philadelphia are among the most corrupt cities in the United States.
It can't work, of all people who betray us.
Election observers needed binoculars to see what was on the ballot paper.
They protest our objection, I don't understand why.
Update from November 6, 12:36 a.m.:
In fact, a press conference is imminent in the White House.
Will Donald Trump speak here one last time before the election decision?
It will be interesting to see how far Trump is going in terms of manipulation allegations.
Update from November 6th, 12:22 am:
Terrible choice of words!
President's
son
Donald Trump Jr.
has called on his father to start an
"
all-out
war"
around the election.
Donald Trump must "reveal all the fraud and cheating," wrote his Trump Jr. son on Twitter on Thursday.
This included the votes of voters who were dead or no longer lived in the respective state, claimed the Trump son.
"It is time to clean up this mess and stop looking like a banana republic."
According to ZDF, his father has meanwhile announced a press conference in the coming minutes.
Update from November 5, 7.44 p.m.:
The Clark County election officer,
Joseph Gloria
, spoke
in front of the cameras.
This is the county that Trump's campaign team spoke about that afternoon
(see update from November 5, 6:10 p.m.)
.
Gloria has not heard of any
fraud
so far
, “we are not aware of any illegal ballot papers”.
Everyone would do their best to get the
ballots properly
processed.
Nevertheless, many ballot papers would be checked again and in some cases recounted.
Postal voting is something new
in
Nevada
, which is why, according to Gloria, it took a little longer.
You had to update databases and enter every absentee vote into the system to avoid people voting twice.
The 1,300
laptops
used
for this
are now checked again to make sure that the system has really not counted ballots twice.
In addition, Gloria emphasized
several times
in his
press conference
that the counting is not about speed, but about
precision
.
When asked about the allegations of Trump's team, whose election observers in Clark County would not have access to the count, Gloria said: "We want to give access to anyone who wants to observe the process." But there are also regulations when observers, for example, in areas advance for which they are not approved.
Gloria assumes to have counted the votes currently received by Saturday or Sunday.
However, other postal votes can also be received, which must also be counted.
The
ballot papers
that are filled out correctly are also counted, Gloria said.
In Nevada, a
final result is unlikely
to be expected
anytime soon
.
US election 2020: "Witness" reports stolen ballot
Update from November 5, 6:10 p.m.:
The Trump team wants to file a lawsuit in
Nevada
because it sees irregularities in the counting of votes.
According to this, people have cast votes even though they are not registered voters.
For example, some of the voters considered moved away or died during the pandemic.
At the
press conference
, a "witness" also spoke about fraud.
She got the ballot in the mail, but someone stole it from her.
According to her, this also happened to neighbors.
The Trump team is now relying on such reports and is hoping to succeed in court, especially in Clark County, where Los Angeles is also located.
They want more "transparency" and check the selection process, which they have been denied so far.
Update from November 5th, 6:01 pm:
Grenell said in the
press conference
: "It is not acceptable that illegal votes are taken into account." This gives honest voters the impression that the
electoral system is
corrupt.
He criticizes that in
Nevada
postal votes arrive and are counted, but "we are not allowed to do our job in polling stations and check".
Registered election observers are normally allowed to observe the counts.
The team asked the authorities for answers, but they didn't get any answers.
Update from November 5, 5:54 p.m.:
US President Donald Trump's team has criticized irregularities in the counting of votes in the state of Nevada.
Richard Grenell
, National Security Director in America, said in a press conference in Las Vegas that afternoon: "There were people who did not live and vote here." He criticized the postal votes in particular.
In Nevada you have to have lived there for 30 days, otherwise you can't vote.
Because of such irregularities and a lack of transparency, which Grenell criticizes, the team wants to
file a
lawsuit
“to protect the rights of legitimate voters.
US election 2020: Trump team announces press conference - possibly next lawsuit planned in Nevada
First report from November 5, 4:37 p.m .:
Las Vegas -
Donald Trump's campaign team
wants to announce something: A declaration has been announced in Las Vegas, Nevada for 5:30 p.m. CET.
As
reported by
Fox News
,
Richard Grenell
, former US ambassador to Germany, will also attend the
press conference
.
The broadcaster writes that the team is planning to file another lawsuit so that only every “legal” vote is counted.
Accordingly, the US President's campaign claims that at least 10,000 people voted in the state even though they no longer live there.
US election 2020: Donald Trump's team with statement - will another lawsuit follow?
Nevada
* is one of the six US states for which
a preliminary final result is not yet clear,
according to
CNN
.
After about 86 percent of the votes have been counted, it's 49.3 percent for Joe Biden and 48.7 percent for Trump.
In terms of votes, there are currently only 7647 votes difference.
So it's a very close, neck and neck
race
in Nevada.
Other decisive states are Pennsylvania *, Georgia and North Carolina.
2020 US election: Donald Trump continues to severely criticize the counting of votes
Trump criticizes that votes are still being counted.
He and his team maintain repeatedly that
the US election is being manipulated
primarily through the
postal vote
, the votes of which are still being counted in some states.
On Twitter, he never tires of communicating his message: "Every vote that came after election day is not counted," he wrote on Thursday afternoon.
Twitter has again provided the message with a notice that this content is controversial.
Joe Biden countered
and tweeted: "Every vote has to be counted."
ANY VOTE THAT CAME IN AFTER ELECTION DAY WILL NOT BE COUNTED!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2020
Trump announced lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin on Wednesday.
You can always read what exactly his team will be announcing at the press conference at 5.30 p.m. in this
news ticker
.
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