Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued battleground states Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin on Tuesday to challenge their 2020 presidential election results.
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Former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus reacted on Twitter late Wednesday to the election situation in Wisconsin. At a special meeting that lasted more than five hours, Democrats on the state elections commission sought to change recount guidelines after the Trump 2020 Campaign filed a petition to review the state’s votes in Dane and Milwaukee counties.
“Let’s get this straight,” Priebus wrote. “The Trump campaign sent the Wis Election Comm.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued battleground states Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin on Tuesday to challenge their 2020 presidential election results.
The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit to the Wisconsin Supreme Court Tuesday -- alleging abuse around the process of absentee voting in the state, which they say affected approximately 220,000 ballots. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday morning and comes after Wisconsin completed its partial recount — which maintained that Joe Biden won the presidential race in the state — and after Wisconsin Gov.Tony Evers formally certified Biden’s victory Monday night.
The Trump campaign is filing a lawsuit to the Wisconsin Supreme Court Tuesday -- alleging abuse around the process of absentee voting in the state, which they say affected approximately 220,000 ballots. The lawsuit is expected to be filed Tuesday morning and comes after Wisconsin completed its partial recount — which maintained that Joe Biden won the presidential race in the state — and after Wisconsin Gov.Tony Evers formally certified Biden’s victory Monday night.
President Trump suffered another setback in his push to overturn his defeat in the presidential election, as Arizona on Monday certified President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the state. The results of the election were certified by Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who's a Democrat, with GOP Gov.
Wisconsin completed a partial recount Sunday, which added to President-elect Joe Biden's lead by an additional 87 votes ahead of Tuesday, when the state is set to certify results. Trump vowed to challenge the outcome in court even before the recount concluded.
Black Lives Matter protesters have gathered outside the home of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti for the last several days to protest reports that President-elect Joe Biden might nominate him for a Cabinet position.
President Trump on Saturday said his team would challenge election-recount results in Wisconsin after President-elect Joe Biden padded his lead in Milwaukee County by a little more than 100 votes. Trump also continued to allege election fraud in Pennsylvania despite federal appeals judges ruling there Friday that the Trump 2020 Campaign's claims in that state "have no merit.” “The Wisconsin recount is not about finding mistakes in the count, it is about finding people who have voted illegally,
President Trump promised to challenge the Wisconsin vote count after the recount there, and said his campaign is disputing a number of votes larger than President-elect Joe Biden's winning margin. “The Wisconsin recount is not about finding mistakes in the count, it is about finding people who have voted illegally, and that case will be brought after the recount is over, on Monday or Tuesday.
President-elect Joe Biden picked up 132 more votes after an election recount in Milwaukee County, among the two places in Wisconsin that President Trump spent $3 million to force a recount. In Dane County, another Democratic stronghold, votes are still being tallied in a count expected to last into the weekend, but Trump has gained 68 votes over Biden so far.
They’re trying to find the winner — but were shown No. 2.
Nearly 400 absentee ballots from Milwaukee, Wis. were not opened by Election Day, a recount paid for by President Trump's team found.
The presidential race in Georgia was called for President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday night, officially awarding him the state’s 16 electoral votes and widening his lead over President Trump. Biden has 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232, though the president has yet to concede the race.
Former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus reacted on Twitter late Wednesday to the election situation in Wisconsin. At a special meeting that lasted more than five hours, Democrats on the state elections commission sought to change recount guidelines after the Trump 2020 Campaign filed a petition to review the state’s votes in Dane and Milwaukee counties.
For the fourth consecutive presidential election cycle, the results from Wisconsin proved to be a nail-biter. In 2016, President Donald Trump won the state by less than a percentage point and now, four years later, his Democratic challenger, President-elect Joe Biden, flipped the battleground state by a similar margin.
The mother of an Illinois 17-year-old charged in the fatal shooting of two men during a protest in Wisconsin said neither her son nor the protesters should have been on the street that night and put much of the blame for what happened on police and the governor. Kyle Rittenhouse, of Antioch, Illinois, is also charged in the wounding of a third person on Aug.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterJoe Biden has been elected the 46th president of the United States, beating President Trump with a campaign that focused on healing the country’s divisions and defeating the coronavirus pandemic.Biden’s win was narrower than most observers predicted, and Republicans appear in a strong position to retain control of the Senate.
It became clear in the morning after the election that the winner might be decided after a long battle involving lawsuits and other demands by both presidential campaigns. While former Vice President Joe Biden took wins in two crucial swing states, President Trump's team has demanded a recount in Wisconsin and filed lawsuit in Michigan to stop ballots from being counted.