Trump campaign says it will request recount in Wisconsin

Source: Politico | November 4, 2020 | Christopher Cadelago and David Siders

The president’s path to victory has narrowed as Biden jumped ahead in key swing states.

Update, 1:05 p.m.: President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign announced Wednesday that it would “immediately” request a recount in Wisconsin, as vote totals showed him narrowly trailing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden with 95 percent of ballots reported.

“Despite ridiculous public polling used as a voter suppression tactic, Wisconsin has been a razor thin race as we always knew that it would be,” Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said in a statement.

“There have been reports of irregularities in several Wisconsin counties which raise serious doubts about the validity of the results,” he added. “The President is well within the threshold to request a recount and we will immediately do so.”

Trump won Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes by 1 percentage point in 2016. Along with Michigan and Pennsylvania, the state was one of three Great Lakes-area battlegrounds he flipped to secure his Electoral College victory over then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

But Biden now leads Trump in Wisconsin by less than 1 percentage point, with 95 percent of the expected vote tallied, according to the latest totals. State election officials are still working through adding up the vast number of mail-in ballots submitted this year amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Original story:

Donald Trump’s path to reelection has narrowed significantly after Joe Biden flipped Arizona on Wednesday and pulled into the lead in Wisconsin and Michigan. With the race still undecided, the eyes of the nation turned to a trio of states at the center of the 2020 map all along.

Trump could sill secure his reelection through the Great Lakes states in the upper Midwest, where final counts are hours, or even days, away. But with his win in Arizona, Biden could now lose Michigan or Wisconsin, states where he holds narrow leads, or Pennsylvania, where vote-counting is expected to take days, and still win the presidency.

Georgia, another pick-up opportunity for Biden, remained in play, as well.

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