Donald Trump believed he had his revenge on Joe Biden (but no)
The Republican president welcomed the results not being validated in Michigan. But his joy was short-lived.
UNITED STATES - He still refuses to admit defeat. Since the November 3 ballot, Donald Trump has persisted in contesting Joe Biden's victory, to the point that on Tuesday November 17 he sacked the boss of the government agency in charge of election security, who defends the probity of the ballot .
To prove his point, the Republican president has stepped up legal remedies, which are gradually dwindling due to lack of evidence. This was particularly the case recently in Pennsylvania. But during the night, Donald Trump nevertheless believed he had his revenge against Joe Biden, in Michigan, a key state he had won in 2016. In a tweet, the current tenant of the White House welcomed that Wayne County, the largest in that state, refused to certify the election results.
And in fact, the representatives of the Republican Party members of the elections committee refused - initially - to validate these results, citing irregularities in particular in the city of Detroit. A decision very quickly denounced by their Democratic counterparts as well as non-partisan organizations.
So many citizens complained live about the move at a new meeting held in public on Zoom, CNN reports. They notably accused the Republicans of stigmatizing a city where the population is 80% African-American.
Michigan’s largest county has reversed course and unanimously certified its presidential election results. An earlier vote had threatened to temporarily stall official approval of Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the state. https://t.co/sXzhF1fmbJ
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 18, 2020
Finally, less than an hour later, the two Republican representatives changed their minds, saying they were reassured by the federal authorities' promise to investigate the Detroit results. Donald Trump's victory will therefore only have been short-lived.
Joe Biden won Michigan with 148,000 votes. A victory made possible in particular by his performance in Wayne County, where he finished ahead of Donald Trump with 322,000 more votes. The latter obviously did not fail to react to this turn of events and when his first comment had aroused some mockery, especially on Twitter. “At first they voted against it because there were a lot more VOTES than PEOPLE (Sad!). Then they were threatened, harassed violently, yelled at and FORCED to change their vote, but then they were REFUSED, as American patriots, to sign the documents. Stop the harassment, ”he posted on Twitter in the early afternoon.
