After the critical Georgia state vote recount results

Biden denounces Trump's "irresponsibility" after consolidating his victory in the elections

Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris during a press conference.

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The US President-elect, Joe Biden, who strengthened his victory, yesterday, with the results of the vote recount in the crucial state of Georgia, denounced the "irresponsibility" of President Donald Trump, who has so far refused to acknowledge his defeat in the elections.

Trump, without providing any concrete evidence, denounces widespread fraud, which he said took place in several states, and wages a judicial battle in the midst of chaos.

Speaking from his stronghold of Wilmington, Delaware, Biden said: "I think (Americans) are witnessing incredible irresponsibility, and unreasonably damaging messages to the rest of the world about how democracy works."

He continued, "It is difficult to understand how this man thinks," adding: "I am convinced that he knows that he lost, and that I will take the oath on January 20 .. What he does is simply shameful."

Biden, who turns 78, yesterday won nearly 80 million votes nationwide in the November 3 election, compared to less than 74 million for the Republican billionaire.

But the White House is taking advantage of the US indirect electoral system, as the president appoints the votes of major voters distributed in all states, at a time when Biden’s victory in some of these states is limited to a slim majority.

In Georgia, the Democratic candidate won by only 14,000 votes, according to the basic census, a narrow difference to the point that a manual recount had to be made.

And the state local authorities announced, the day before yesterday, that the results of the recount confirmed Biden's victory, but with a smaller margin of 12,200 votes.

A Trump campaign official was quick to denounce the results.

"This alleged manual recount took place exactly as expected, because Georgia simply recounted all the illegal votes," said Gina Ellis, stressing that Trump's team intends to "investigate all legal options" available.

Trump attacked the entire electoral process in the southern state, focusing in particular, in a thrill of tweets, on finding about 6,000 additional votes in two regions with Republican majorities.

Some of these sounds were counted, but not downloaded into the system.

As for the remaining votes, it appears - according to the local authorities - that they were forgotten in a box.

Gabriel Sterling, one of the Republicans delegates assigned to oversee operations, commented: "This creates confusion, and we understand that some are concerned," but "the good news is that the recount has done its part" to correct these errors.

"We hope President Trump will accept the result," he told Fox News, warning that "questioning" the election result "undermines the foundations of democracy."

All eyes are on this state, as it holds by-elections in January for two seats in the Senate, which will clinch a majority.

In addition to Georgia, the President and his allies have filed a series of appeals in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona and Nevada.

The courts responded to some of these appeals, while the concerned authorities withdrew others.

On another front in this battle, two mandated Republicans refused to participate in the process of validating the election results in an area near Detroit, Michigan, for hours on Tuesday, to sign the results, before retreating from their position on the criticism raised by this unprecedented gesture.

And the Republicans announced, last Wednesday, that they had withdrawn their decision.

"I got two calls from President Trump," one of them, Monica Palmer, told the Washington Post, adding: "It was not pressure, but he was worried about my safety."

Republican Senator Mitt Romney, a former White House candidate, accused the president of exerting "clear pressure on the national and local authorities to reverse the will of the people and overturn the election result."

"It is difficult to envision a worse, more anti-democratic action on the part of an American president in office," Romney, who has often criticized Trump, said in a statement posted on Twitter the night before last.

For his part, Joe Biden continues to prepare for the January 20 handover of power.

On Thursday, state governors met to discuss dealing with the "Covid-19" epidemic, which has caused the death of more than 250,000 people in the United States.

Trump's son-in-law plans to run for a Senate seat in the 2022 election

US media reported yesterday that Lara Trump, wife of Eric Trump, son of the outgoing president, plans to run for the Senate in North Carolina in the 2022 elections.

This news, published by the New York Times and the Politico website, comes while outgoing President Donald Trump still refuses to accept his loss to Joe Biden in the November 3rd elections.

"The New York Times" quoted three "allies", whom it did not identify, to Lara Trump, that the wife of Eric (the youngest son of the Republican billionaire), "told her aides that she is considering running for the Senate in 2022."

The incumbent Republican Senator, Richard Burr, has announced that he will not run for re-election.

And it seems that the list of Republican candidates to fill the seat, to succeed him, will be long, as "Politico" indicates that the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, former governor Pat McGurry, as well as current governor Dan Forrest, are potential candidates for the seat.

North Carolina is a historically Republican state, and voted for Donald Trump on November 3, but he advanced by a smaller margin than the 2016 results.

It is considered an increasingly volatile state, that is, it can move from one camp to another.

Iran denies that its deputy foreign minister contacted Biden's team

Yesterday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatib Zadeh denied a news report that the Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs, Syed Abbas Araghji, had contacted the US President-elect's work team, Joe Biden, and described it as fake.

Khatibzadeh’s statement came in response to a piece of news published by the "New York Times" regarding Araghji's contact with Biden's advisers, according to the Iranian News Agency (IRNA).

The New York Times reported, citing diplomatic sources, that Araghchi tried to convey a message to Biden, through mediators, that the United States should return to the nuclear agreement without preconditions, before starting any negotiations.

It is noteworthy that the United States withdrew, in May 2018, from the nuclear agreement, which it concluded with France, Germany, China, Russia and Germany, with Iran in 2015, and has since imposed severe sanctions against Iran, affecting senior Iranian officials and Iranian entities.

Biden won in Georgia by only 14,000 votes, according to the basic count, a difference so narrow that a handful of votes had to be recounted.

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