Milwaukee County recount requested by Trump backfires
A recount demanded by the election campaign of Republican president Donald Trump in Wisconsin’s largest county has ended with his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, gaining votes in the disputed US presidential election.
Trump had claimed that he “won” the November 3 disputed presidential election.
The recount in Milwaukee County, showed Biden had a net gain of 132 votes, out of nearly 460,000 cast. Overall, Biden gained 257 votes to Trump’s 125.
Trump’s campaign sued two of Wisconsin’s most populous and Democratic-leaning counties, after losing Wisconsin to Biden by over 20,000 votes. The two recounts will cost the Trump campaign $3 million. Dane County is expected to finish its recount on Sunday.
The Milwaukee County announcement came after a federal appeals court in the US said the Trump campaign's allegations in the battleground state of Pennsylvania "have no merit", dealing another blow to the Trump campaign’s efforts to change the results of the presidential election in his favor.
Neither Trump nor Biden have conceded defeat in the disputed election marred by intimidation and cheating accusations.
Media have announced that Biden won the presidential election with 306 Electoral College votes to Trump’s 232. Biden also leads by more than six million in the popular vote tally.
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