Elections

Biden Takes Lead in Pennsylvania and Georgia, Trump inching closer in Arizona

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3 years ago

November 6, 2020

Staff Writer

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Democratic nominee, Joe Biden surpassed President Trump in the critical state of Pennsylvania just before 9 a.m. Friday.

An estimated 95% of the votes in Pennsylvania have been counted. Currently, Biden is leading by 6,826 votes as of 10:40 a.m., with about 160,000 ballots left to be counted, according to the secretary of state’s website. These will take longer to count because they are provisional ballots, as well as ballots that require additional review because of date and signature issues.

90% of the votes have been counted in Arizona. In Maricopa County, the state’s most populated county and home to Phoenix, Biden’s lead in the state is shrinking. The Democratic presidential nominee gained 28,285 votes. Trump gained 31,716 votes. Maricopa County has about 140,000 ballots left to count. In total, Arizona still has about 220,000 statewide ballots to report.

Biden also took a small lead in Georgia Friday morning by about 1,100 votes, though counting is still ongoing. As of 8:15 a.m. EST, there were just over 8,000 ballots left to count, as well as about 8,900 overseas and military ballots that had not yet been returned.Thousands of requested overseas and military ballots may arrive by the Friday deadline. As of 10:40 am.m. EST 99% of the votes have been counted. Biden is up by 1,579 votes. The Georgia secretary of state predicted there would be a recount. At this point, both candidates have 49.4% support, and the state requires a recount if the difference between the candidates is under 0.5%.

There are 190,000 ballots remaining to be counted in Nevada, according to the secretary of state’s website. About 90 percent are from Clark County, home to Las Vegas. Biden is leading by 11,438 votes as of 10:40 a.m. EST. The next update on the count will be Friday at noon EST.

Elections

Trump, Rep Biggs: invoking the Alien Enemies Act to enable widespread deportation will ‘be necessary’

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3 days ago

September 22, 2023

Sara Carter Staff

At a recent rally in Iowa, former President Donald Trump promised that if elected again in 2024, he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act to enable widespread deportation of migrants who have illegally entered the United States. Since President Joe Biden took office in January of 2021, over 6 million people have illegally entered the country.

Republican Representative Andy Biggs from border state Arizona, which is among the states suffering the greatest consequences from the Biden administration policies, lamented that Trump’s suggestion will be “necessary.”

Speaking on the “Just the News, No Noise” television show, Biggs stated “[I]t’s actually gonna have to be necessary.” Biggs then added his thoughts on how many more people will continue to cross the border under Biden: “Because by the time Trump gets back in office, you will have had over 10 million, in my opinion, over 10 million illegal aliens cross our border and come into the country, under the Biden regime.”

“And so when you start deporting people, and removing them from this country, what that does is that disincentivizes the tens of thousands of people who are coming,” Biggs went on. “And by the way, everyday down in Darién Gap, which is in Panama… over 5,000 people a day. [I] talk[ed] to one of my sources from the gap today. And I will just tell you, those people that you’ve seen come come in to Eagle Pass, over 7,000 in a three day period, most of those two weeks ago, were down crossing into the Darién Gap.”

“And those people… make their way up and they end up in the Eagle Pass [Texas], Del Rio area,” he continued. “So if you want to disincentivize them, you remove them from the country, which is why they remain in Mexico policy was so doggone effective at slowing down illegal border crossings.”