Melania Trump: “Every legal vote must be counted”

“We must protect our democracy with full transparency,” the first lady wrote on Twitter.

The first lady of the United States, Melania Trump, asked this Sunday 8-N that “every legal vote” be counted and called to protect the country’s democracy with “total transparency”, after the media projections gave the electoral victory . to the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden.

“The American people deserve fair elections. Every legal – not illegal – vote must be counted. We must protect our democracy with total transparency,” the first lady wrote on Twitter.

The US president’s wife, Donald Trump, spoke after Biden was declared the winner of the November 3 election, an achievement the current president refused to acknowledge.

Trump asked last Thursday on his Twitter account: “STOP THE ACCOUNT!”, In capital letters, and subsequently asked that “ANY VOTES ARRIVING AFTER THE ELECTIONS MUST NOT BE COUNTED!”

Speaking of which, Republican campaign spokesman Jason Miller explained to the press that day that the president does not want to keep counting the ballots that arrived in the mail, a resource that 65 million Americans used to avoid crowds on the day. election because of the coronavirus.

Trump has taken a stand against the postal vote because data shows that Democrats used that formula in greater proportion than Republicans, who preferred to wait until election day.

On Saturday, Trump’s favorite social network Twitter marked a tweet from the president as “questioned” declaring himself the winner of the election, when the country’s mainstream media had already projected Biden’s victory.

In his message, Trump continued allegations from previous days that there had been irregularities in voting and control, despite there being no evidence of this.

“Observers were not allowed to enter the counting rooms. I won the election, got 71 million legal votes. Bad things happened and our observers were not allowed to see them. They never happened before. sent millions. of mail-order votes to people who didn’t ask for them, “Trump wrote.

Twitter marked the message with the note “This allegation of electoral fraud is questioned” and avoided partially hiding it or limiting its circulation as it has done with dozens of tweets from the president over the past four days, in which Trump has insisted victory and accusations of fraud.

Biden appeared in his victory speech Saturday as a conciliatory leader who will seek to end polarization in the country and assured that “it is time to heal the United States”.

Biden’s victory sparked celebrations in several cities across the country, even as many of the Republican supporters and the president – who returned for the second consecutive day to his golf club on the outskirts of Washington this Sunday – refuse to acknowledge the results. .