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Added on the 17/03/2021 20:04:43 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Georgia's Republican top election official Brad Raffensperger says he believes President Trump's attacks on mail voting suppressed his own base. In fact, Raffensperger says Trump's baseless claims that mail voting is untrustworthy and fraudulent cost him the state. According to Business Insider, 24,000 Republicans who voted by mail in the state's June 9 primary elections did not vote at all in the general election. While Trump outperformed the polls in many states, he lost the key battleground states of Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, in addition to Georgia. What's more, an even higher number of Georgia Democrats who voted in the primaries stayed home for the general. Trump was the first Republican presidential nominee to lose Georgia since George H.W. Bush in 1992.
The United States' 2020 general election is on track to shatter all previous records for voter turnout. According to Business Insider, nearly 140 million votes have already been counted, exceeding 2016's record-breaking 137.1 million votes. The 2020 total is only expected to soar in the coming hours and days. That's because votes, whether in-person or absentee, continue to be counted across the country. Wednesday, battleground states like North Carolina and Pennsylvania remained undecided. Large states such as California and Texas hadn't yet reported all results. However, by midday on Wednesday, Democrat Joe Biden led President Donald Trump by almost 3 million votes.
Election workers in the city of Wilkes-Barre, in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, count mail-in ballots submitted in the US election, where no clear winner has yet emerged as votes in six key states are still being counted. IMAGES
Election workers in the city of Detroit, in the battleground state of Michigan, count mail-in ballots submitted in the US election, where no clear winner has yet emerged as votes in six key states are still being counted. IMAGES
Election workers count mail-in ballots in Milwaukee's Central Count facility, in the battleground state of Wisconsin. An official says about 169,000 mail-in ballots need to be counted.