Trump added 125 votes, Biden added 257 as Milwaukee County tentatively finishes recount with 65 ballots still missing

Editor’s note: This advisory has been corrected to reflect Joe Biden adding 257 votes and Donald Trump adding 125 votes. Milwaukee County today tentatively wrapped up its recount effort, though the city of Milwaukee’s top election official says 65 ballots were still missing from a ward on the city’s south side. Still, the county Election Commission unanimously approved a motion from Dem Chair Tim Posnanski to complete the Milwaukee recount using the 23 ballots from Ward 254 that election officials have on hand out of the 88 that were cast on Election Day. The results from the state’s most populous

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Evers text to Midwest Dem guvs: Trump Guard plan ‘pathetic’

Tony Evers and some of his fellow Midwestern Dem guvs didn’t hold back as they shared texts about the White House’s plans to end a National Guard deployment one day short of troops qualifying for federal benefits. “Pathetic,” Evers called it in a text message to Govs. J.B. Pritzker, Tim Walz and Gretchen Whitmer. “I hate these guys,” Walz wrote about the White House’s plan. Along with bemoaning the White House’s plan — later abandoned — Evers and his Dem colleagues in Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois via text sought input from each other on how to deal with COVID-19, assistance

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