Daily US Times: A recount in Wisconsin’s largest county demanded by President Trump’s election campaign ended on Friday with Joe Biden gaining votes.
After the recount in Milwaukee county, President-elect Joe Biden made a net gain of 132 votes, out of nearly 460,000 cast. Overall, he gained 257 votes to Trump’s 125.
President Trump’s team had demanded recounts in two of the state’s most populous and Democratic-leaning counties, after he lost Wisconsin to the Democratic candidate Joe Biden by more than 20,000 votes. The two recounts will cost the Trump campaign $3 million dollars.
Dane county is expected to finish the recount its recount on Sunday.
Overall, Biden won the presidential election with 306 electoral college votes to Trump’s 232. Biden’s electoral college numbers is far more than 270, which needs to seal the presidency. Biden also leads by more than 6 million in the popular vote tally.
The Milwaukee county clerk, George Christenson, said after the recount ended: “The recount demonstrates what we already know: that elections in Milwaukee county are fair, transparent, accurate and secure.”
The Trump campaign is still expected to mount a legal challenge to the overall result in the state of Wisconsin, but time is running out. Wisconsin is due to certify its presidential result on Tuesday.
Trump’s legal team suffered yet another defeat on Friday, when a federal appeals court in Philadelphia rejected the campaign’s latest effort to challenge the state’s election results.
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