Trump hints 'big voter fraud revelations to come out of Georgia' in threat to Biden
DONALD Trump has insisted he will continue to contest the election result in the US state of Georgia, despite losing a recount.
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US media reported the president’s rival Joe Biden had narrowly beaten the president on Thursday evening by a difference of about 12,670 votes. Just under five million were cast in total. This marked a shift in Donald Trump’s favour by around 1,400 votes from the previous count, according reports – but not enough to change the result.
The state was forced by local law to conduct a recount shortly after the election date on November 3 because both candidates were neck and neck.
However, Mr Trump said in a tweet on Saturday afternoon: “Big voter fraud information coming out concerning Georgia. Stay tuned!”
The president has yet to provide solid evidence of voter fraud to support his claims that he is the actual winner of the US presidential election.
He has so far refused to concede to his Democrat rival, though he also appears to have accepted the fact that another administration will soon be taking over.
In a press briefing from the White House on Friday on the subject of new rules reducing drug pricing, Mr Trump said: “There will never be anything like this. I just hope they keep it.”
Meanwhile, within his own party, the president has faced pushbacks in his drive to probe the election results.
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On Friday the president claimed Georgia’s Republican governor Brian Kemp has refused “to let us look at signatures which would expose hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots”.
Mitt Romney, a Republican Senator who lost to former president Barack Obama in 2012, accused Mr Trump of trying to “subvert the will of the people”.
Meanwhile Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said of the recount result: “I believe that the numbers that we have presented today are correct.”
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He added he was “disappointed” that Mr Trump, his party’s candidate, did not win.
He also acknowledged that supporters of the president “feel their side was cheated”.
But he added: “Georgia’s historic first statewide audit reaffirmed that the state’s new secure paper ballot voting system accurately counted and reported results.”
The week’s audit found almost 6,000 votes had previously gone uncounted. They ended up cutting Mr Biden’s lead, but were the result of human error rather than fraud, according to a Republican voting official in Georgia, Gabriel Sterling.
Overall, Joe Biden is now ahead by Mr Trump by more than 6 million votes in total.
He is due to become President of the United States when he is inaugurated in a public ceremony on January 20.
He has called Mr Trump’s efforts to contest the election result “outrageous,” calling him “one of the most irresponsible presidents in American history”.
Mr Trump is also insisting that “massive voter fraud will be shown” from the US state of Michigan.
This week, President Trump held a meeting with lawmakers from the state. Lee Chatfield, Speaker of the Michigan House, confirmed that state’s election process is currently undergoing a “thorough review”.
He said he has “not yet been made aware of any information that would change the outcome of the election in Michigan”.