Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has confirmed that President Donald Trump didn’t win the state’s 16 electoral votes, regardless of a handbook recount.
“Like different Republicans. I’m upset, our candidate didn’t win Georgia’s electoral votes,” Raffensperger stated on Friday.
He added that he trusts that the vote depend in Georgia is “right.”
“I stay by the motto that numbers don’t lie. As secretary of state, I imagine that the numbers that we’ve offered at this time are right,” he stated.
GA Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger confirms Biden has gained Georgia: "I'm a passionate conservative, and as I've stated earlier than, I'm a proud Trump supporter … Like different Republicans, I'm upset our candidate didn't win Georgia's electoral votes."
"Numbers don't lie." pic.twitter.com/eoakDegn1L
— The Recount (@therecount) November 20, 2020
“Shut elections,” Raffensperger stated, “sow mistrust” as a result of “folks really feel their facet was cheated.” Biden gained Georgia by simply over 12,000 votes, based on the official recount.
The state’s outcomes put 306 Electoral School votes in Biden’s favor, in comparison with the president’s 232. The secretary of state revealed the vote in Georgia can be licensed at this time.
Raffensperger’s announcement dropped hours after the Related Press formally referred to as Georgia in Biden’s favor, a transfer the Trump marketing campaign slammed in a public assertion from senior authorized adviser Jenna Ellis, who claimed the state recounted unlawful ballots of their audit.
“This so-called hand recount went precisely as we anticipated as a result of Georgia merely recounted all the unlawful ballots that had been included within the whole,” she stated.
President Trump has claimed he would have gained in Georgia if not for voter fraud. 1000’s of recent votes had been discovered within the recount, however they didn’t sway the result in his favor. Trump beforehand tweeted he didn’t place confidence in Georgia’s recount and slammed it as a “joke.”
The Georgia recount is a joke and is being achieved UNDER PROTEST. Though 1000’s of fraudulent votes have been discovered, the true quantity is in matching signatures. Governor should open up the unconstitutional Consent Decree and name within the Legislature!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2020
Biden’s victory in Georgia marks the primary time a Democrat presidential candidate has gained the state since 1992.
President Trump continues to refuse to concede the race to Biden, claiming voter fraud occurred in a number of states, together with Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
The president’s attorneys, together with Rudy Giuliani, offered their case for fraud throughout a Thursday press convention, citing quite a few allegations, together with Republican ballot watchers not being allowed to correctly observe counting, that Trump ballots had been dumped, and 1000’s extra fraudulent ballots had been counted.
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