election officials in the u.s state of
georgia have confirmed that joe biden
beat donald trump there
after a recount but mr trump still
refuses to accept he lost the election
and his personal lawyer rudy giuliani
has again laid out unsubstantiated
claims about voter fraud
here's our north america correspondent
will grant
the result of georgia's recount is in
and confirms what we already knew
mr biden won the state still donald
trump will almost certainly not accept
that result nor any other he still
contests
it's now a little over two weeks since
the election was held and this was
supposed to be the moment
president trump's personal lawyer rudy
giuliani showed the proof for their
campaign's
unsubstantiated claims of fraud good
afternoon
i know crimes i can smell them you don't
have to smell this one
i can prove it to you 18 different ways
i can prove to you
that he won pennsylvania by 300 000
votes
i can prove to you that he won michigan
by probably fifty thousand votes
meanwhile the winner of this race vice
president joe biden is growing
increasingly dismissive of president
trump and his outlandish claims of
wrongdoing what do you think the
president is doing
what are americans witnessing here i
think they're witnessing
incredible irresponsibility
incredibly damaging messages being sent
to the rest of the world about how
democracy functions
there was also a timely reminder of the
real world consequences to the political
debacle
thanksgiving perhaps america's most
important holiday is fast approaching
traditionally a time for families to
gather and break bread
in this strangest of years with more
than a quarter of a million
coronavirus-related deaths in the u.s
the center for disease control has
issued its strongest advice
yet stay home
americans health and that of their
family members depends on being
responsible
said the country's leading infectious
disease expert dr anthony fauci
we're not talking about shutting down
the country we're not talking about
locking down
we're talking about intensifying the
simple public health measures
that we all talk about mask wearing
staping distance avoiding
congregate settings the legal wrangling
will continue for some time yet
but the frustrations are growing that
they're preventing the president-elect's
transition team from properly preparing
for office
amid the greatest public health
emergency the u.s has seen in a century
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well i've been speaking to our north
america correspondent peter bose as well
just about how long it was going to go
on before president
trump would acknowledge that he lost and
joe biden won
well i think it's going to go on for a
little bit longer yet but if it isn't
already clear i think it is becoming
increasingly obvious even to some of
donald trump's most ardent supporters
certainly mainstream
republicans that it's over that joe
biden will be
the next president yet we get
senior republicans some coming out
seemingly supporting
the president but others like mitt
romney
saying that what the president is trying
to do essentially to overturn the result
of the election
is unconstitutional and then we had that
news conference just been hearing about
from rudy giuliani the president's
personal
lawyer when we had hoped to hear some of
the hard evidence
backing up the claims of the president
that the election had been stolen but we
didn't hear
anything like that in fact this news
conference was
widely ridiculed and as far as georgia
is concerned
it does seem to be quite categorical joe
biden
did in fact win on the first count and
on the recount
but the president's team isn't accepting
that they within hours released
a statement talking about the false
reporting that joe biden
had been declared the winner in georgia
false reporting as they see it and then
the statement went on it said
georgia simply recounted all of the
illegal ballots that have been included
in the total
we continue to demand that georgia
conduct an honest recount
which includes signature matching we
intend to pursue all legal options to
ensure that only
legal ballots are counted so how long
can this go on well
december the 8th is the deadline for the
individual states to essentially verify
the results and then on the 14th of
december
the electoral college needs to cast its
votes
and formally make joe biden the next
president right so i just wonder then
peter
what is left for donald trump because i
was just looking at the list arizona
the lawsuit was rejected pennsylvania it
was
a bid to throw out certain number of
votes that was thrown out itself
they've given up on michigan i mean the
options are so
miniscule now aren't they
yeah tiny in wisconsin he has paid for a
partial
recount in just a couple of counties
interestingly these are
heavily populated counties but they're
also heavily
democratic as well and again just
looking at the numbers it seems
virtually impossible
that things are going to change
especially looking at and how little
things change there
in the state of wisconsin very very
unlikely that it's going to
flip the state and it seems what the
president is trying to do there is
simply
make a point and to prove at least as he
sees it that there has been to some
extent some
election fraud if those cases can be uh
if they emerge as part of this very
partial
recount but it's a very very slim avenue
and of course that is just one state and
that wouldn't win him the election