Arizona goes to Biden: after the defeat, Trump attacks the Republican governor

After confirming Joe Biden’s victory in the state of Arizona, incumbent US President Donald Trump addressed state governor Doug Ducey on Twitter.

“Why is he rushing to get a Democrat in office?” Trump tweeted Monday night and again complained of alleged election fraud, for which there is no evidence. ‘What’s the deal with Doug Ducey? Republicans will remember this for a long time! ”Wrote Trump. He then spread tweets from other users, including a message that Republican Ducey had “betrayed” the people of Arizona. Trump wrote in capital letters: “That’s right!”

Before Trump tweeted about Ducey, a scene of the authentication of electoral results had spread on the platform on Monday: Ducey takes off his mobile phone from his jacket, if you listen carefully you can briefly recognize the song in honor of the American president, “Hail to the Chief” . A few minutes later, a cell phone vibrates for about 20 seconds until Ducey reaches his and everything calms down.

Ducey spoke at a press conference in July about his good relations with the White House and said he had such a direct exchange with Trump and his deputy Mike Pence that he had set “Hail to the Chief” as his ringtone “because he didn’t. I had one wanted to miss another call straight from the White House. ”There was no official confirmation that Ducey’s cell phone was ringing” Hail to the Chief “during certification – and that it was actually a White House call.

Arizona and Wisconsin, the most disputed American states, officially confirmed the result of the presidential elections with the victory of Joe Biden. Incumbent Donald Trump has suffered another setback in his attempts to overturn the outcome of the November 3 election with legal attacks. Biden won in Arizona with nearly 10,500 votes, in Wisconsin it was about 20,700 after a recount. Trump’s lawyers have failed in court with lawsuits against the election results.

Trump still claims with no evidence that he lost the election only due to massive election fraud. Previously, major states such as Georgia and Pennsylvania had already confirmed the election result with Biden’s victory. In Iowa, however, Trump was officially declared the winner on Monday, as expected.

The results in the individual states are decisive for reaching the necessary number of 270 voters for the election as president. In the United States, the president is not elected directly by the people, but by the electorate, who must cast their vote based on the result of their state. According to US media calculations, Biden won 306 votes from the electorate in the November 3 election.

Confirmation of the election results in Arizona also has the side effect of reducing the majority of Trump Republicans in the Senate from 53 to 52 votes. Democrat Mark Kelly, who defeated Republican Senator Marthy McSally, is expected to be sworn in this week because it was a special vote. The remaining newly elected senators will not be sworn in until early 2021. Whether Democrats or Republicans have a majority in the Senate will not be decided until two ballots in Georgia on January 5.

Among other things, the Senate votes candidates for central government posts. This could limit Biden’s freedom of action as president if Republicans retain control of the House of Congress.