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Wisconsin Ballot Recount Affirms Biden Win Over Trump

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden gained 87 votes in
   Wisconsin as a partial recount of ballots cast was completed Sunday,
   cementing his 20,000-vote victory over President Donald Trump in the
   Midwestern political battleground state.

   The Trump campaign paid $3 million for the recount of the 800,000 votes
   in the two most heavily Democratic areas of the state, in Wisconsin's
   biggest city of Milwaukee and in Madison, the state capital, in hopes
   of upending Biden's claim to the state's 10 electoral votes.

   Instead, however, Wisconsin became the latest state where Trump, a
   Republican, has failed in recounts to overturn the November 3 vote
   favoring his Democratic challenger or win lawsuits alleging vote and
   vote-counting fraud cost him a second four-year term in the White
   House.

   Biden holds an unofficial 306-232 advantage in the Electoral College
   that determines the outcome of U.S. presidential elections, not the
   national popular vote, although Biden leads there, too, by more than 6
   million votes.

   Biden is set to be inaugurated as the country's 46th president on
   January 20, and, at 78, its oldest leader. Last week, he named his
   first Cabinet nominees and plans to announce the names of key economic
   officials this week.

   The Electoral College balloting occurs on December 14, with the largest
   states casting the most votes. Trump said last week he would leave the
   White House when his term ends, if Biden, as expected, wins the
   Electoral College vote.

   Trump has yet to concede the election, and his campaign has lost more
   than 30 lawsuits contesting the outcome in key states.

   Ahead of the outcome of the recount in Wisconsin, Trump said Saturday
   on Twitter, "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.
   We have found many illegal votes. Stay tuned!"

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