US election: Trump expects a victory in Georgia - and arouses new worries

The 2020 US election has been decided - but Donald Trump does not give up even days after his loss to Joe Biden.

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• The

  2020 US election will be

  decided after days of waiting -

  Joe Biden

  will be the 46th President of the US.

• Donald Trump *

  is still combative and has not yet congratulated Biden.

• Trump

  hopes for a legal path to victory - and has now apparently authorized his Justice Minister to break an unwritten rule (update from November 10, 9:36 a.m.).

• This ticker is updated regularly.

Update from November 12, 4:55 p.m.:

After his

, incumbent

again accused his political opponents of fraud on Thursday.

On Twitter, he commented on the unfinished

, where the Republican is clearly in the lead.

“Why is it taking so long in North Carolina?

Are you looking for more votes to fix that too? ”Wrote Trump.

In North Carolina, the count could last until the weekend - this has been known for a long time.

It took long enough!

What is taking North Carolina so long?

Are they looking for more ballots to fix that one also?

Now with a recount, we will win Georgia also.

Pennsylvania & Michigan wouldn't let our Poll Watchers & Observers into counting rooms.

Illegal!

https://t.co/TVTVv4s5Lx

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 12, 2020

At the same time, he repeated the accusations, repeatedly rejected by the responsible authorities, that

no election observers were allowed to be counted

in

and

.

In addition, Trump expressed the expectation that he

would receive a majority

after the announced recount of the votes in

.

The

has there according to preliminary results a lead of over 14,000 votes.

In the case of recounts following past presidential elections, there have so far been at most three-digit changes.

Biden is the winner of the election, with 279 votes for the

.

270 of these voters are enough for the majority.

Trump has 217 voters behind him so far.

The US president, who is still in office, is arousing new concerns elsewhere - he exchanged several high-ranking employees at the Pentagon.

Trump appears publicly for the first time after the election defeat - and delivers Fernduell with Biden

Update from November 11, 6:25 p.m.:

Am

Last Saturday the Democratic challenger

declared the winner of the

by the US media

.

The incumbent President

refuses to acknowledge his defeat and speaks of electoral fraud - without being able to prove it.

Now the 74-year-old made his

since his electoral defeat was determined.

On Wednesday, Trump attended a

on

with Vice President Mike Pence and the First Lady

.

At the National Cemetery in Arlington, near Washington, they both saluted while the US national anthem was played.

Trump left the memorial after a brief ceremony.

At the same time as Trump, the

also attended

a veterans memorial service.

Joe Biden visited

the Korean War Memorial in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

, with

.

"On Veterans Day, I feel the full weight of the honor and responsibility that the American people have entrusted to me as the next president," said the

.

US President Trump continues to believe in his election victory

Update from November 10th, 4.40 p.m.:

Even several days after challenger Joe Biden's victory celebration,

continues to

believe

in his whereabouts in the

: “We will win,”

on Tuesday, using only capital letters.

There is "great progress", as the next week will show.

The

posted three more tweets in full capitalization.

"Watch out for massive counting fraud and remember that I told you right away - just like with the early vaccination," wrote Trump among other things.

The US president had

predicted

a

"by October"

in the summer

.

An optimistic assessment that, however, did not come true.

WATCH FOR MASSIVE BALLOT COUNTING ABUSE AND, JUST LIKE THE EARLY VACCINE, REMEMBER I TOLD YOU SO!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 10, 2020

Meanwhile, one of Trump's close allies,

but embarrassed himself on Twitter.

posted a congratulatory graphic to Biden on Tuesday.

In the background of the text, parts of an alternative version for the voted Donald Trump were still recognizable.

There was a "technical error," it said from Downing Street.

There was also a significant flop on Trump's house broadcaster Fox News.

Trump fires ministers after US election: explosive interview public - "God have mercy on us"

Update from November 10th, 3:10 p.m.:

On Monday evening,

fired

his

- via tweet.

Now it is known: the head of department apparently foresaw his fate.

Shortly before, Esper had indirectly but drastically warned against Trump in an interview with a specialist magazine.

Esper told the

that the

main achievement of his tenure was

to have protected

the

in addition to the

new

.

The same applies to its "integrity".

"Have you seen me on a stage and heard me say, 'Under the outstanding guidance of bla-bla-bla, we have bla-bla-bla?'" He asked rhetorically.

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Donald Trump (center) and Mark Esper (2nd from right) in the White House

© Shealah Craighead

Esper also indicated in the interview that he had kept his post primarily out of a

.

"You see, my soldiers can't resign either." "I've tried to do what I always do and that is to try to do the best."

Whether he struggled more than other defense ministers

to bring

into line with reality, Esper did not want to assess.

He explained that he had to think about the issues over which he wanted to risk major conflicts.

Because: “Who will come after me?

It will be a real yes-man.

. ”The interview was conducted on November 4th - shortly after the US election.

At this point, Trump still had a concrete chance of defeating Biden.

US election 2020: Trump wants to prevent Biden with legal remedies - that's how experts estimate the chances

Update from November 10th, 1:55 p.m.:

Now

investigators

(also) should deal

with the results of the

(see update from 9:36 a.m.) - and possibly overturn the election result by legal means.

But does

proposal even have a chance?

Experts say no.

"Trump's trial strategy leads nowhere," says

from the University of California at Irvine.

“It will not affect the outcome of the election.”

According to the

news

, the

electoral law

from Ohio State University emphasizes

that the fraud allegations are “vague”.

“You need facts to back up allegations.” And even if misconduct should be uncovered in individual cases,

should only have a chance of success if these cases could change the election result.

Because of the

,

are

expected

in the states of

and

.

However, according to experts, that should change little.

“In recent US elections, recounts have almost never changed more than a few hundred votes,” says electoral law expert Huefner.

The outcome in

could be decisive

- here Joe Biden has a lead of more than 45,000 votes.

US election 2020: Trump wants an investigation - and lets ministers break unwritten rules

Update from November 10th, 9:36 a.m.:

US Attorney General

has

authorized the

prosecutors subordinate to him to investigate possible irregularities in the

.

At the same time, Barr stressed on Monday that this does not mean that the authorities currently have evidence of possible election fraud.

US media had

proclaimed

the opposition candidate

the election winner against incumbent

on Saturday

.

However, Trump denounces alleged massive electoral fraud without presenting any evidence and does not acknowledge his defeat.

His electoral team has opposed the counts in several states, but some of the lawsuits have since been dismissed.

US election: Attorney General Barr wants to investigate "voting and counting irregularities"

Barr now wrote to federal prosecutors to investigate possible "substantial allegations of

".

Such inquiries and reviews are likely to be conducted when there are "clear and overtly credible allegations" which, if proven, could "potentially affect" the election results in individual states.

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US Attorney General William "Bill" Barr.

© AFP / Nicholas Kamm

Investigating possible pollutants in elections is usually the responsibility of the state authorities.

now

out, however, that it was never a "fixed rule".

The minister wrote that the federal prosecutors should investigate

for election "with great care", while "flimsy, speculative, absurd or far-fetched" accusations should not give them any reason to investigate.

is an extremely controversial minister.

Critics accuse him of

exercising

his office as a kind of

and of not adequately

the independence of the judiciary.

Trump rages over corona vaccine - "didn't want me to be successful"

Update from November 10, 6:37 a.m

.: The incumbent President

presented the announcement of promising results by the manufacturers of a

a few days after the US election as

.

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer "did not have the courage" to announce the good news before the election, criticized Trump on Twitter.

The US company is working on the vaccine with the

.

Trump also criticized the

his government

in his tweet

.

The FDA should have announced the results earlier, he complained.

"Not for political reasons, but to save lives," wrote Trump.

During the election campaign he had promised again and again that there would be good news on vaccines before the vote - and apparently hoped for a political tailwind from it.

As I have long said, @Pfizer and the others would only announce a Vaccine after the Election, because they didn't have the courage to do it before.

Likewise, the @US_FDA should have announced it earlier, not for political purposes, but for saving lives!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 10, 2020

Trump after US election in 2020: "... that's why it came out five days later"

"The FDA and the Democrats didn't want me to have a vaccine success before the election, so it came out five days later," Trump wrote on Twitter.

His administration's FDA is headed by Stephen Hahn, whom Republican Trump himself appointed.

The @US_FDA and the Democrats didn't want to have me get a Vaccine WIN, prior to the election, so instead it came out five days later - As I've said all along!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 10, 2020

Biontech and Pfizer were the first western manufacturers to publish promising - but limited in the scope of the details - results on Monday.

Accordingly, your vaccine offers more than 90 percent protection against Covid-19.

The companies want to apply for emergency approval from the FDA from next week.

"Absolutely shocking things": Trump's fraud allegations continue to gain momentum - ministers fired via tweet

Update from November 9th:

launched one tweet after the other on Monday evening.

Hardly any of them are not

as

by the Twitter platform

.

The updates on the alleged election events are debatable, the statement about the

stands out in particular.

Nevada is turning out to be a pool of fake votes.

@mschlapp & @AdamLaxalt are finding things that, when released, will be absolutely shocking!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2020

“

” fires Trump, “

"

In

, meanwhile, things are looking good, Trump continues, legally it still needs some time, “will happen soon”.

His words on Pennsylvania are more violent.

"

" he complains, "

." In

, Trump is certain, he will celebrate a "

".

Update from November 9th:

After the announcement that he has replaced his Secretary of Defense,

takes on

the

again

and intensifies his

“The detection limit of the ballot papers has turned out to be

,” he tweeted, “

.

Stay tuned!"

The threshold identification of Ballots is turning out to be even bigger than originally anticipated.

A very large number of ballots are impacted.

Stay tuned!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2020

Some

had already been dismissed in the past few days.

But the incumbent US president will apparently not give up anytime soon.

US election: Trump continues to resist defeat - and fires Pentagon boss

Update from November 9, 7:06 p.m.:

is still resisting the

and does not want to accept the result.

He will probably have to do that in January at the latest and hand over his office to Joe Biden.

Until then, however,

will remain

.

now

proving that he is still in power

with a very surprising and grand decision.

"

" Trump tweeted Monday night.

... Chris wants to do a GREAT job!

Mark Esper has been terminated.

I would like to thank him for his service.

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2020

Former

.

“Chris will do a great job,” continues Donald Trump, “

"

US media have been reporting for a long time that there is rumbling between Esper and Trump.

There have already been

, but it is now out of the blue, after all, it was

more

.

Donald Trump is replacing the Secretary of Defense "with immediate effect," without prior notice.

US election 2020: Trump does not want to admit defeat - Putin's spokesman comments

Update from November 9, 12:57 p.m.:

Some

have already congratulated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on their victory in the US election.

So far there have been no congratulations

from

, but a statement: "We think it is right to wait until the results of the election are officially announced," said

spokesman Dmitry Peskov in Moscow on Monday, according to several media reports.

Putin is ready to work with any president and respects the choice of the

, the

quotes him

.

Shortly before the election, wrong information kept coming up that Russia was trying to interfere in the election *.

Several major TV stations announced

on Saturday

.

Nevertheless, votes will continue to be counted, and incumbent President Donald Trump announced several lawsuits against the vote count.

The Russian opposition leader

had already congratulated on Sunday.

He wrote on Twitter: "I am looking forward to the new level of cooperation between Russia and the US."

Update from November 9, 8:38 a.m.:

The first Trump authority hinders the peaceful transfer of power to the election winner

.

US President

now wants to stay in office by recounting the postal votes.

He wants to prove that invalid ballot papers were also included in the result - for example, the votes of US citizens who have already died.

Meanwhile, the US General Services Administration apparently denied the Biden team a necessary signature.

The managing authority is responsible for clearing the new government team to have access to office space, equipment and officials.

To do this, the authority would have to sign a corresponding paper.

In addition to access to the necessary administrative units, the Biden team would thus be awarded millions of dollars in one administrative act.

So far the signature has been refused, reports

, citing the

.

2020 US election: Trump does not want to admit defeat to Biden - and tweets into the night

Update from November 9, 6.54 a.m.:

The still incumbent US President

would now be called to initiate his successor

in the business of government.

But Trump

still does not want to recognize

the

- that apparently robs him of sleep.

Up until about 0.40 a.m. Washington time, the US president tweeted media reports that seemingly support his claim to the office.

"The requirement to count every vote is a crime," accuses the former lawyer Ken Starr in an interview with the Fox News broadcaster against the newly elected President Biden.

Even the Trump-related TV broadcaster Fox News has repeatedly

accused

Trump of misconduct in the

in the past few months

.

pic.twitter.com/qsFn1Ee6B0

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2020

However, the TV report in Trump's post does not deny Biden the election victory.

Only Biden's statement that every vote should be counted is interpreted as if Biden also related this to invalid votes.

In other words, ballot papers that wives would give for their deceased husband.

Biden's appeal, however, is unlikely to have much to do with such a scenario.

Under the motto "Every vote counts", thousands of Americans took to the streets in the past few days and weeks trying to defend their postal votes.

Donald Trump had previously tried to prevent the postal ballot from being counted.

US election 2020: Trump does not want to admit defeat against Biden - now Melania Trump speaks up 

Update from November 8, 9:21 p.m.:

After his defeat,

complained about the system that had been established in the US since the 19th century that large media companies were proclaiming an election winner.

"Since when does the Lamestream media determine who our next president will be?" Wrote Trump on Twitter on Sunday.

“We have all learned a lot in the past two weeks.”

is an artistic term from Trump, which is

mainstream media that he criticized and “lame” (lame). 

US election 2020 in the ticker: Kamala Harris reminds of corona rules

Update from November 8, 9:16 p.m.:

is not over yet.

The newly elected

wants to

remember this.

So she asks everyone on Twitter to keep thinking about their masks: “Covid-19 is still here.

Please keep wearing a mask and keep your distance. "

COVID-19 is still here.

Please continue to wear a mask and practice social distancing.

- Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 8, 2020

Trump's spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany called

a victory celebration by Biden's supporters as a corona infection risk on Saturday.

On her private account, she posted a video of the cheering crowd in front of the White House in Washington on Twitter and wrote, “Where is Joe Biden calling for an end to the massive super-spreader events that are being held on his behalf? " 

US election 2020 in the ticker: Trump does not want to accept defeat against Biden - Melania Trump is now reporting for the first time

Update from November 8, 8:22 p.m.: Melania Trump

is now

speaking

the first time

.

Similar to Ivanka Trump two days ago, she posts something general that can also be understood as support for Donald Trump.

“The American people deserve fair elections.

Every legal - not illegal - vote should be counted.

We have to protect our democracy through complete transparency. ”There is no mention of fraud or corruption in any way.

The American people deserve fair elections.

Every legal - not illegal - vote should be counted.

We must protect our democracy with complete transparency.

- Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) November 8, 2020

US election live: Joe Biden visits cemetery near Wilmington

Update from November 8, 7:25 p.m.: Trump tweets

and what does

do

He attends

near his home in Wilmington.

Biden's son Beau, first wife Neilia, and daughter Naomi are buried in the Greenville cemetery.

Beau died in 2015 of complications from a brain tumor.

Neilia and Naomi Biden were killed in a car accident in 1972.

Biden (77) was 30 years old at the time.

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After the 2020 US election, Joe Biden visits St. Joseph on the Brandywine Church in Greenville near Wilmington.

His first wife Neilia and daughter Naomi and son Beau are buried there.

© Carolyn Kaster / AP / dpa

Update November 8, 19:12:

The

allows the view of Nobel Peace Prize winner

the rescue of the last major

Biden is a sincere person who goes a sensible way, said the former Soviet president of the Interfax agency on Sunday.

"Now it will be easier," said the 89-year-old in view of the so far hardly successful attempts to extend the New Start Treaty to limit nuclear weapons.

Under US President Donald Trump, Russia had recently seen little chance for the agreement, which ends at the beginning of February.

US election 2020 in the ticker: Lindsey Graham stands behind Donald Trump

Update from November 8, 7:09 p.m.:

In contrast to Senator Mitt Romeny,

positions himself

very differently.

This encourages the incumbent president to take legal action after the supposedly lost US election.

"President Trump should not give up," said Graham on Sunday in an interview with

.

“This is a controversial choice.

The media doesn't decide who becomes president.

If they did that, there would never be a Republican president, ”said Graham.

Trump must go to court.

The senator, who is considered a Trump confidante, cited the case of people who allegedly voted in the key state of Pennsylvania even though they were already dead.

Biden leads the state by 40,000 votes before the count ends.

US election 2020 in the ticker: Senator Mitt Romney stands behind Joe Biden as president

Update from November 8th, 6.47pm:

Other Republicans are also trying to get Donald Trump to do the “right thing” and to vote Trump voters “conciliatory”, as Biden would like himself to do.

One of them is

.

He calls for people to stand behind Joe Biden as president.

The re-elected Senator from Utah did not notice any signs of electoral fraud, as he

reports to

.

“However, I believe that it damages the cause of our democracy when we talk about widespread fraud and corruption.

There is simply no evidence at this point, ”said the Senator.

US election in the ticker: Melania tries to appease Donald Trump

Update from November 8th, 5:46 p.m.:

Even if some Republicans

a conciliatory tone, Trump's tweets, it still does not suggest that he will admit his defeat so quickly.

He quotes supporters on Twitter who also suspect election fraud.

His son Donald Trump Jr. also continues to stir up suspicions and in many ways adds fuel to the fire.

He tweeted that there were no violent riots, even though so many Republicans were angry.

And son Eric Trump also diligently retweeted views about election fraud.

.

However, there are said to be two people from Trump's inner circle who want to get him to accept the defeat.

One of them is son-in-law

, as previously reported (see below).

But

after

and asked him to accept the defeat.

A

is said to have heard the conversation between the two.

is said to have "offered" her opinion, as she is said to have done many times before.

US election 2020: Suddenly there are conciliatory tones from Trump camp - will it come to a "peaceful transfer of power"?

First report from November 8th

: Munich - In the history of America there has probably never been a president who

has shown himself so unreasonable

despite an official

.

still fighting

by all means - be it tirades on

or lawsuits - to avoid

having to admit

bankruptcy.

Some TV shows have already discussed how to proceed if Trump refuses

to leave

the

even after January 20

.

But with all the lack of insight that the 74-year-old is attested to,

can now also

be heard from the Trump camp.

.... Where it mattered, they stole what they had to steal.

@newtgingrich

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2020

US election 2020: Ironically, "Fox" reports about peace plans

The reports from the

piling up

, according to which the still incumbent

might eventually show insight.

For example,

, known for its proximity to the Trump camp,

reports

that the president wants to "guarantee a peaceful transfer of power" "if the lawsuits do not open up any prospect of another term".

It should be said that

has filed numerous lawsuits in contested states and is also willing to file more.

According to

, son-in-law

stand

behind the idea of ​​a “peaceful transfer of power”

.

The broadcaster also reports that there has not yet been any contact between

and his successor

.

.

List of rubric lists: © BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP