Protesters among the crowd outside Phoenix count said to be carrying weapons after analysts call state for Biden. Scores of Donald Trump supporters converged on a vote-counting centre in Phoenix, in the key battleground state of Arizona, as backers of both the president and Joe Biden took to the streets in several US cities.
The protesters in Phoenix on Wednesday evening, some of whom were reported to be carrying weapons, according to the local TV network ABC 15 Arizona, briefly tried to push into the centre before being asked to leave. They appeared to be a mix of Trump supporters and several far-right figures familiar at demonstrations in the state.
Arizona has been called by some media outlets for Biden, who holds a slim lead in the state. But the Trump campaign tried to insist it had the votes to overtake him. According to the most recent tally, Biden had a lead of nearly 69,000 votes.
In contrast to pro-Trump protests seen in Michigan and Pennsylvania, where the president’s supporters called for vote counts to be halted, protesters in Phoenix chanted “stop the steal!” and demanded that remaining ballots be tabulated.
Protests, sometimes about the election and sometimes about racial inequality, also occurred on Wednesday in at least half a dozen cities, including Los Angeles, Seattle, Houston, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and San Diego.
Police in Seattle, and Portland, Oregon, arrested more than a dozen people as hundreds took to the streets to demand a full count of all presidential election votes and a halt to Trump’s court challenges to stop vote counts in some key battleground states.
Although the protests were largely small and peaceful they underlined the lingering fear of disturbances that has hung over the election.
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Source: theguardian
