Politics

Trump Campaign Requests Wisconsin Recount—but Only in State’s Largest, Bluest Counties

DON’T COUNT ON IT

Any recount is extremely unlikely to overturn Biden’s margin of victory in the state, which is currently just over 20,000 votes.

GettyImages-1229620837_i6yx56
Stephen Maturen/Getty

The Trump campaign will seek a recount in Wisconsin—but only in the state’s two largest, most Democratic-leaning counties. The president will pay the state $3 million for recounts in Milwaukee and Dane counties, the latter of which includes the city of Madison. Biden won both counties by a margin of 180,000 votes, carrying the state and its 10 electoral votes by just over 20,000 votes. A full recount of the state would have set the campaign back $8 million. A recount is extremely unlikely to swing the state, however; in 2016, a full recount of the state paid for by the Jill Stein campaign only netted Trump 131 votes.

Read it at Milwaukee Journal Sentinal

Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.