No end in sight: the outgoing US President Donald Trump continues to take action against the result of the 2020 US election - and raises allegations in connection with a corona vaccine.
The Democrat
Joe Biden
won the
2020 US election *
against
Donald Trump
.
But the outgoing US president does not want to admit his defeat.
He's going against the result in several states.
Update from November 22, 7:26 p.m.:
In the meantime,
Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20
seems
only a formality.
But the Kremlin of all people is still reluctant to recognize the Democrats as the election winner.
You will work with every
US president
who "has the confidence of the American people," said
Vladimir Putin,
according to the
Bloomberg
portal
on Russian state television on Sunday.
"But this trust can only be gained by a candidate who is recognized by the losing party - or after the results are recognized through a legitimate, official channel," Putin added.
Trump's term of office was overshadowed for a long time by the "Russia affair".
Moscow has been accused of specifically supporting Trump's 2016 election victory.
Putin described his stance as a "formality" according to the report.
To
Russia's relations with the United States
, he is not worried, the Russian president said.
"There is nothing to damage, they are already ruined."
The
Republican governor of
the US state of Maryland has meanwhile described Trump's fight against the election results as increasingly "bizarre" and embarrassing.
The
US
was once a respected leader in the world of free elections "and now we're starting to look like a banana republic," said
Larry Hogan
on Sunday in an interview with the CNN news channel.
“It's time to stop the nonsense,” the Republican said.
Hogan had spoken out early on against Trump's course after the election defeat.
US election 2020: Trump wants to slow down the result in Swing State - Biden plans a big announcement for Tuesday
Update from November 22nd, 4:50 p.m.:
Donald Trump
wants to continue to defend his power in the White House with all (legal) means - but the elected new
President Joe Biden
is implementing his program: Biden wants to introduce his first
cabinet members
on Tuesday
.
"You will see the first nominations from the cabinet of the elected president next Tuesday," said Biden's chief of staff designate Ron Klain on Sunday the broadcaster
ABC
.
Klain did not say which ministerial posts will be announced and who should take over the departments.
"You have to wait for the president-elect to say that himself on Tuesday."
On Saturday, Trump
failed
with a lawsuit in
Pennsylvania
.
Shortly before the decision, Trump's team had filed a request to stop result certification in the
state of Michigan
.
There Biden had won the election with 155,000 votes ahead of Trump.
In a letter to the election management in Michigan, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, and the head of the party association in Michigan, Laura Cox, demanded a two-week adjournment of the equal-representation body, which finally reviews the election results before certification.
This should enable a "full investigation of the anomalies and irregularities" in the election, explained McDaniel and Cox.
As in Pennsylvania, the results in Michigan should also be
officially confirmed on Monday
.
The state election officer,
Jocelyn Benson
, stressed on Twitter on Saturday that there was
"no evidence"
to justify questioning the election results.
“In short, 5.5 million people in Michigan voted.
The result of their choice is clear.
No evidence has emerged to undermine this, ”wrote Benson.
In a nutshell:
✅5.5m Michigan citizens voted ✅The results of their votes are clear
✅No evidence has emerged to undermine that
✅We have rules & laws in place to protect the integrity of our elections & the will of the voters
✅ Those rules & laws should govern the days ahead.
https://t.co/msMw041OM7
- Jocelyn Benson (@JocelynBenson) November 21, 2020
Update from November 22nd, 7.17 a.m.:
US President Donald Trump wanted to invalidate millions of votes in the US election.
Reason: alleged
"massive election fraud"
.
But he continues to suffer setbacks.
A federal court in Pennsylvania has given the incumbent president another defeat.
Trump's attorneys had only presented "tried legal arguments without value and speculative allegations" without evidence, wrote
Judge Matthew Brann
in a statement published on Saturday evening (local time) for his decision.
Trump and his team have suffered defeats in other lawsuits in Michigan, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
Trump's lawsuit also aimed to potentially invalidate millions of absentee votes.
The arguments and evidence presented would not even have been enough to invalidate the vote of "a single voter", wrote the judge.
"Our people, our laws and institutions demand more," he wrote.
2020 US election: Biden victory in Georgia confirmed - Trump requests recount
Biden's narrow election victory in
Georgia
has now been officially confirmed.
The responsible State Secretary Brad Raffensperger and Governor Brian Kemp certified the results on Friday afternoon.
Biden won the votes of the state's 16 electorate with a wafer-thin majority of 12,670 votes.
Because of the tight result, the state had initiated a recount.
As a result, Biden's lead had shrunk, before he had been in the lead with around 14,000 votes.
However, Trump still has until Tuesday to request another recount - and he did so on Saturday (November 21).
Trump's campaign team announced that the relevant
application
had been
submitted
on Saturday.
His lawyers said this was to ensure that every legal vote was counted.
Trump's legal team explained the request for a recount by insisting on an "honest counting of votes," which must include signature comparisons and other important protective measures.
“Let's stop giving wrong results to the people.
There has to be a time when we stop counting illegal ballots.
Hopefully he'll come soon, ”it said.
US election 2020: Republican party friends turn down Trump
Trump was
also unlucky with another
strategy
: Republican MPs and senators from the state of Michigan invited by him to the White House spoke out against attempts to alter the election results with legal tricks after the meeting.
The Republicans said they had no information yet that could change the election result.
They would therefore "follow the law and normal process" in appointing the electorate, said Senate and Chamber of Representatives Majority Leaders Mike Shirkey and Lee Chatfield.
"And the candidates who win the most votes win the election and the votes of the electorate," they said.
US election 2020: Trump wants to contest election results
Update from November 21, 2:59 p.m
.: The incumbent US President
Donald Trump
wants to challenge the election results - in the state of
Georgia
* he has now failed.
Judge
Steven Grimberg
has denied a conservative attorney's petition for an injunction.
The
Georgia court also rejected
an attack by the plaintiff on
absentee ballots
.
Trump has already suffered defeats in similar lawsuits in Michigan *, Pennsylvania * and Nevada *.
The narrow election victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the
Swing State
has now been officially confirmed
(see today's update from 7:21 am)
.
However, Trump would have until
Tuesday
to request another recount here.
US election 2020: Trump accuses Pfizer of deliberate delay in corona vaccines
Update from November 21st, 10:46 am
: "We had Big Pharma against us":
Donald Trump
still
does not
admit his electoral defeat against the US Democrat
Joe Biden
- but renews allegations that the pharmaceutical
company Pfizer
has published data on its future
corona -Vaccine
deliberately delayed
to harm
him in the
2020 US election
.
Originally, the pharmaceutical companies
wanted to present
their data in
October
, Trump said on Friday at a press conference in the White House.
"But they have decided to postpone it." The reason are his plans to
lower drug costs
, which he presented to the PK, said Trump.
According to him, the pharmaceutical lobby spent “millions of dollars” on advertising against him during the election campaign.
He spoke of "corrupt games".
If the pharmaceutical companies had announced their good results on the effectiveness of their vaccine candidates before the presidential election, this would have "probably had an impact" on the election, according to Trump, who at the same time reiterated that he was the person who voted anyway.
The elected
US president
did not
answer questions from journalists
.
+
Donald Trump imagines the pharmaceutical lobby against himself in the 2020 US election campaign.
© Almond Ngan / AFP
US election 2020: result from Georgia finally here - now Biden Trump threatens with a lawsuit
Update from November 21, 7:21 a.m.:
Joe Biden's
election victory
in the US state of
Georgia
is officially confirmed.
The responsible State Secretary
Brad Raffensperger
officially certified the results, as
Governor Brian Kemp
said on Friday.
The further procedure stipulates that Kemp confirms the figures within 24 hours and thus
instructs
the
16 electorate of
the state to vote for Joe Biden as president on December 14th.
The defeated President
Donald Trump
then has up to and including Tuesday
to request
a
recount of
the votes.
Several complaints by his lawyers against the election results were in Georgia, as in other states, in
court
failed.
Due to the tight result, Georgia had already carried out a check of the ballot paper itself: Biden's lead then shrank from around 14,000 to 12,670 votes, according to information on Friday.
The reason was that election commissions in two Republican-ruled districts had forgotten to include several thousand counted votes in the bill.
Kemp sharply criticized that there were irregularities to this extent.
Raffensperger had repeatedly emphasized in the past few days that no signs of election fraud had been found.
2020 US election: Joe Biden attacks Trump's behavior sharply
Update from November 20, 12.15 p.m.:
The elected 46th US President
Joe Biden
has again sharply attacked Trump's behavior.
The fact that
Donald Trump
does not
admit
his election defeat is an "unbelievable irresponsibility," said the Democrat during a press conference in his hometown of
Wilmington
.
Donald Trump is sending "incredibly harmful messages to the world about how democracy works." It is difficult to understand, Biden added, how this man thinks.
Joe Biden
promised
to enable
the
Trump administration to work
with his transition team through
legal means if necessary
.
The Democrat said that when asked.
However, since this is time-consuming, such a procedure is currently not being planned.
Update from November 20, 6:09 a.m
.: Defeat for
Donald Trump
, the incumbent US President: The embattled state of
Georgia
(see original message from November 19)
goes to the Democrat
Joe Biden
.
This has been confirmed by the authorities after the
recount of
the votes cast in the US presidential election.
According to this, the counting was done by hand - with the result "that the original machine counting of the votes correctly
reflected
the winner of the election", says
election manager Brad Raffensperger
on his website.
The recount took place because of the
extremely tight
election result (Biden had been ahead of Trump with only around 14,000 votes).
His lead is now around
12,200 votes
.
Still very scarce, which is why Trump
again
could apply for a recount, so Raffensperger, who emphasized on local television that no evidence of
electoral fraud
had been found.
Donald Trump is serious: the US President wants to count the votes in Wisconsin again - with his own millions
Original message from November 19
: Washington - Democrat
Joe Biden
won 306 voters in the
2020 US election
.
You need at least 270. This makes Biden the elected US President.
But
Donald Trump
does not want to accept that and is taking legal action against the result.
His accusation:
election manipulation
.
There is no evidence of this.
Cyber security chief Christopher Krebs,
who has now been fired by Donald Trump
, said it was the safest election in US history
.
Meanwhile, the Trump team had almost no success with its lawsuits against the election result in several states.
The question arises: What happens if Trump does not leave office?
Now it is
the turn of
the state of
Wisconsin
: The Democrat
Joe Biden *
prevailed with a margin of 20,470 votes (0.62 percent).
But the
Trump team
wants to partially challenge the election results in Wisconsin - and has provided three million dollars for a recount.
The state election commission announced on Wednesday.
This affects two electoral districts, in which, according to the Trump side, there were the most irregularities in the
US election
:
Dane County
: Joe Biden is ahead with over 260,185 to 78,800 votes.
Milwaukee County
: Joe Biden is ahead with 317,270 votes to 134,357.
After the 2020 US election: Donald Trump wants partial recount in Wisconsin
As reported by the
German Press Agency
, the cost of a recount would only be borne by the state if the lead is less than 0.25 percent.
If
Donald Trump *
had wanted to count the votes of the entire state again, he would have had costs of almost eight million dollars, according to the authorities.
... AND I WON THE ELECTION.
VOTER FRAUD ALL OVER THE COUNTRY!
https://t.co/9coP3R44UQ
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2020
The state of
Georgia *
is also prominently in the focus of the Trump side
.
Due to a tight election result, the votes were counted again there.
Biden
had won the state by a small margin.
According to
CNN, the
manual recount there is
almost complete.
Furthermore leads
Joe Biden
.
Donald Trump: Human error revealed in Georgia - result remains the same for Joe Biden
The control revealed that thousands of votes were not included in the results - and Trump received more votes in Georgia than previously assumed.
A human error as the body responsible for organizing elections of State
Brad Raffensperger
at
CNN
stated.
However: "We have seen no signs of widespread fraud." In the state of
Pennsylvania *
, the Trump team's lawsuit is picking up speed again.
In their complaint, they demand that the results of the vote not be confirmed and that the electorate be appointed by the local parliament.
(aka with dpa) * Mercury.
de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.
Many thought
Trump's
victory in 2016 was a fluke.
Nobody can say that anymore: It remains “Trump's USA” *, says the editor-in-chief of the
“Foreign Policy”
magazine
in this article.
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