In this daily series, Newsweek explores the steps that led to the January 6 Capitol Riot.
duly certified the appointment of a slate of electors, but President-elect Joe Biden's margin of victory was within 0.5 percent, which meant that the campaign had the right to ask for a formal recount.
At this point, the chances of flipping anyone's electoral votes had dwindled to zero. Trump's people focused on signature matching for mail-in ballots, but ironically the recount involved only rescanning all of the paper ballots, not addressing the issue of signatures.'s strategy had shifted to consolidating his supporters around a general sense of distrust: a belief that there had been cheating and fraud.
As his campaign demanded a recount in Georgia, Donald Trump tweeted about"massive corruption in our Electoral Process." Then he headed to Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia.During the day, the president addressed his fellow heads of state at a G-20 virtual meeting, reportedly telling them he was looking forward to working with them"for a long time," which all interpreted as a statement that he was not ready to concede the election.
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