Manuel Ortiz Escámez. Peninsula 360 Press [P60P].
San Francisco, California. After the general election on November 3, and after the current U.S. president, Republican candidate for re-election, Donald Trump assured without evidence that "they want to steal the election". and subsequently demanded via his Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump: "STOP THE COUNTING!" ?of votes? activists in different cities around the country, including San Francisco, came out to protest "to defend democracy? and "to ask that all the votes be counted".
We're here to celebrate Trump's defeat and, at the same time, we want to say that the vote should be respected," said Jason Gonzales, one of the young activists who gathered at noon at 555 California Street, where they painted a giant mural with the slogan "Count Every Vote. Count Every Vote," said Jason Gonzales, one of the young activists who gathered at 555 California Street at noon.
The mural was painted right in front of the building where the offices of Jones Day are located, a national law firm hired by President Trump to stop the recount of votes in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin - states where his Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden, has won their respective electoral votes - along with the state of Georgia, where this morning was announced the restart of the count by a vote that marked the difference of 1,576 votes in favor of the Democrat.
"The truth is that the will of the people is clear: an overwhelming majority of people in this country have chosen a future with liberty and justice for all, and this is a desperate attempt to obstruct the will of the voters," said David Escobedo of Bay Resistance, one of the organizations involved.
The organizers of the protest - who spread their messages on social networks with the hashtag #CountEveryVote - told Alianza News that, if the president refuses to accept his defeat and, with it, leave power, they will begin an escalation of actions in the San Francisco Bay Area and the rest of the country to defend the vote.
"People made a great effort to go out and vote. We have had an election with a lot of popular participation and it is not fair that Trump wants to throw all that away. The citizen vote has to be respected," Gonzalez added.
So far, 71 electoral votes remain to be defined in the states of Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia, where the candidate for the presidency by the Democratic Party, Joe Biden leads Trump who, in turn, leads the states of North Carolina and Alaska.
