Trump campaign plans to pay for recount in Wisconsin: report
Source: raw story
Published 1 min on November 18, 2020
By Matthew Chapman
On Wednesday, Fox News John Roberts reported that the Trump campaign plans to file for recount in Wisconsin.
According to Wisconsin law, the presidents campaign is obligated to pay for the recount itself, which will cost them almost $8 million. The deadline to request the recount is today, which has led to speculation over whether or not the campaign would decide to go through with it.
As of Wednesday, results show President-elect Joe Biden carrying the state of Wisconsin by just over 20,000 votes the closest margin of the three Midwestern blue wall states he flipped back after Trump carried them in his 2016 upset, but a large enough lead that a recount is unlikely to change the result...................
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/trump-campaign-plans-to-pay-for-recount-in-wisconsin-report/
more delays
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Link to tweet
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redstatebluegirl
(12,264 posts)My guess is it will bounce sky high.
PJMcK
(21,916 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,264 posts)PJMcK
(21,916 posts)Here's the rest:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-wisconsin-deadline-vote-recount-1348ed4b4691fa28bd3102c4f97599c1
FarPoint
(12,207 posts)CASH ONLY!
mtngirl47
(985 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,496 posts)Phoenix61
(16,950 posts)No way hes giving up 8 million for something that wont change anything.
PJMcK
(21,916 posts)If the RNC wants to waste $8 million, that's fine by me. It's money they can't spend in Georgia.
dmkinsey
(840 posts)He thinks the whole federal budget is his personal money
PJMcK
(21,916 posts)Go for it, Trump.
There's nothing like losing twice! Imagine the fun if a recount turns up more Biden votes!
Trump, you're a loser.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,161 posts)Turbineguy
(37,206 posts)Mexico will pay for it.
patricia92243
(12,590 posts)patricia92243
(12,590 posts)NCDem47
(2,236 posts)I fully expected they would scam...I mean, persuade, some followers to chip in.
redstatebluegirl
(12,264 posts)StClone
(11,676 posts)What a waste of time, exposing personnel during a pandemic, and mindless obduracy.
truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)The grifter always grafts. He knows hell lose, but hell beg and beg for money. And steal it.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)No shortage of dummies lining up to hand over their minimum-wage paychecks to keep them Imm'grints out!
Biden/Harris' adherents should adopt the moniker "MAIA" (Make Americans Intelligent Again).
empedocles
(15,751 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Five states flipped because the voter suppression didn't work this time. Theyn would have been blue in 2016.
Look at it this way--Trump made history: First impeachment of the millennium. First one-term president of the millennium. Longest temper tantrum (five years and counting) in the history of humankind.
And--never once did he win the popular vote.
LiberalFighter
(50,490 posts)Will 8 million pesos be enough?
ancianita
(35,812 posts)they know they can get away with. They will be able to pull all kinds of shenanigans, from "finding" over 20,000 votes to "finding" a counting error. Somebody's going to come through for them.
It will still only get MF45 up to 242.
He'll have to pull 28 more out in the next month.
obamanut2012
(25,906 posts)ancianita
(35,812 posts)I'm not claiming it will, anyway. It's just that for a desperate MF45 and his henchmen, $8 mill is a lot to pay for an honest recount. On further speculation it could all be a stall to work the legislature.
Knowing this campaigns methods, why do you think WI is being paid for a recount?
Lefta Dissenter
(6,617 posts)If thats where theyll be recounting. The recounts will be good. tRump team will be looking to disenfranchise all of those Voters of Color, but thats quite a hurdle!
Now, if he asked for recount in Waukesha County, Id be worried!
ancianita
(35,812 posts)11 Bravo
(23,922 posts)lark
(23,003 posts)Cash only upfront in FULL!
Jimbo S
(2,952 posts)Don't have the link, but it was in the news. A week before the election, millions disappeared from the Wisconsin GOP. Couldn't run as many TV ads.
lark
(23,003 posts)You know they probably stole it to line their own pockets. At least that's my guess based on watching decades of repug treachery and self-dealing.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)Her 2016 Wisconsin recount yielded an extra 131 votes for Trump.
marble falls
(56,358 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,817 posts)Fair is fair don't you think? Trump helped MBS bury a scandal so why not help a buddy make a problem go away?
Denvermosaic
(120 posts)I predict he'll let the 5 p.m. deadline expire then ask for his deposit back.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/18/trump-campaign-filing-for-partial-wisconsin-recount-challenging-biden-victory.html
Lonestarblue
(9,877 posts)Trump is looking for ways to delay conceding the election because it gives him more time to collect donations for his legal fund, most of which goes to his own new PAC, not legal expenses. It also gives him more time to resist allowing the transition to start because all states arent decided yet, which seems to be his goal so he can do as much damage as possible and hand Biden a totally dysfunctional government on January 20one he hasnt had time to prepare for because his team is stymied from talking to people in the administration. At least he and his team are experienced and will make the best of a bad situation.
All states must certify their election results before December 14, when each states EC delegates vote. So Trump has until December 14 to refuse to concede, even though there is no question about who won. I think his faithless electors ploy will not work, but I just want the EC vote over. After that, even Republicans in Congress can have no excuse for supporting Trumps refusal to concede.
groundloop
(11,486 posts)riversedge
(69,711 posts)The Trump campaign is spending $3 million on a partial recount in Wisconsin's two most Democratic counties.
Biden won statewide by 20,608 votes, based on canvassed results submitted by the counties.
A 2016 presidential recount in Wisconsin netted Trump an additional 131 votes.
Link to tweet
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modrepub
(3,467 posts)These counties are cheating. That's the message I see.
Maeve
(42,224 posts)And the chance of him finding 20,000+ votes in those two counties is vanishingly small
kimbutgar
(20,872 posts)SergeStorms
(18,882 posts)That means they have the money in the bank. TrumpCo. has until 5:00 pm CST today. It won't change a thing, and I'm sure republicans would much rather to spend that money on Georgia. The little baby is going to kick and scream until he gets his way though, and if republicans don't want to risk THE ANGRY TWEET from Herr Shitler they'll play along with baby Donny.
DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)Like the story in Michael Cohen's book of the paint Trump used after he bought Doral and fixed it up. Trump ordered the cheapest paint then tried to blame the painting contractor, then the paint manufacturer when the paint didn't hold up, as the manufacturer said it wouldn't.
Traildogbob
(8,567 posts)All the cash flying around pre-Election, Post -Election, all these frivolous lawsuits and for the January runoff, but 30 million unemployed, massive lines for food, people lucky enough to survive Covid, 200s of thousands in med bills, those not lucky leave burial expenses and loss of income for spouses and kids, and a soaring stock market for the wealthy and no mass production of PPES, N95 masks and hospital staffing.
McConnell, fuck helping people, Lady G, over my dead body will we extend unemployment.
Yet the leaders in a party of Jesus and pro life keep thriving on with donations from many barely above water.
And we wonder why Olsteen, the White House Tongue Talker and TV Evilgelicals have multiple yachts living high.
God be Blessin MurKKKa.
Javaman
(62,439 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)TeamPooka
(24,155 posts)malthaussen
(17,065 posts)bluestarone
(16,720 posts)If it's a check (cashed)or Electronic payment, BEFORE the count starts? Who is in charge of money received? Will they pull the shit, that WE cannot see proof? I DO NOT trust any of these assholes!!
Squinch
(50,773 posts)maddogesq
(1,245 posts)And if I were WI, I'd ask for a certified check or cash up front.
This isn't the same as 2000 when the Neocon war machine was so well funded they could fight this to the desired outcome. The Trump camp can keep begging the stupids and they'll keep giving, to a point. I say that pint is soon as they see the numbers really aren't in their favor.
This is all just so stupid.
KWR65
(1,098 posts)Trump has a history of not paying his tab.
TimeToGo
(1,366 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,663 posts)They know this recount will fail. They're using it to keep the base stirred up.
sinkingfeeling
(51,275 posts)maddogesq
(1,245 posts)Like I have said all along...
https://m.facebook.com/RBReich/videos/847099092523758/
BumRushDaShow
(127,285 posts)So after "Michigan" and "Wisconsin", what is the 3rd "Midwestern" state...
Because I hope to hell they are not trying to call "Pennsylvania", whose eastern border is a mere 60 miles from the Atlantic ocean, a "Midwestern state".
They can't be considering MN or IL because both were blue in 2016 & 2020 and they can't be considering OH or IN or IA, or NE or MO, etc., because all of those were red both in 2016 and 2020.
COL Mustard
(5,782 posts)Make sure your taxpayers don't get stuck with the bill!
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)they r spending that money as a redirection campaign to keep the GA races off the news headlines........ M$M eating it up
bucolic_frolic
(42,663 posts)over distancing, watchers, methods, tabulations. Toe in the door type stuff, hoping to replicate it later, in other states, or with the ECV voting.
It just never ends.
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,361 posts)'Plans to' - Show us the Benjamins.
Marthe48
(16,690 posts)n/t