Trump Camp Outraged Georgia Recount Counted The Votes

President Donald Trump, arms crossed, speaks to reporters in August 2018. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump’s campaign is having a fit after a manual recount of Georgia’s election results confirmed on Thursday night President-elect Joe Biden’s stunning victory in the Peach State.

Jenna Ellis, one of the campaign’s legal advisors, said in a statement that they will “continue to demand” an “honest recount,” parroting Trumpland’s baseless accusation that the election was mired in fraud.

“This so-called hand recount went exactly as we expected because Georgia simply recounted all of the illegal ballots that had been included in the total,” Ellis said without providing evidence.

Biden defeated President Donald Trump by a margin of 12,284 votes, the recount showed.

“Georgia’s historic first statewide audit reaffirmed that the state’s new secure paper ballot voting system accurately counted and reported results,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in a statement. “This is a credit to the hard work of our county and local elections officials who moved quickly to undertake and complete such a momentous task in a short period of time.”

Under Georgia law, Trump may request a recount after the votes have been certified due to the margin being less than 0.5 percent. The deadline for Raffensperger to certify the results is Friday.

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  1. Why do most articles end with blather from a Trump sycophant?

  2. “This so-called hand recount went exactly as we expected because Georgia simply recounted all of the illegal ballots that had been included in the total,” Ellis said…

    And you recognize an "illegal ballot by what?
    The Biden vote?
    Its origin in greater Atlanta?
    Or, it just doesn’t look right to you?

  3. Avatar for mames5 mames5 says:

    It comes on George Soros’ letterhead.

  4. Avatar for Punchy Punchy says:

    Expect at least 6 more lawsuits filed in the next hour or so. Gotta block that cert! These will address the poor color of the ballot, the fact the election was held on a Tuesday, and the inability of the Russians to properly access the machine data.

  5. Clearly, any vote for Biden is illegal. After all, who in their right mind would vote for anyone other than the Donald?

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