https://www.npr.org/2020/11/28/939645865/biden-gains-v**es-in-recount-of-milwaukee-county-requested-by-trump

President Trump's push to overturn the e******n results suffered another in a series of defeats on Friday — this time in Wisconsin, where officials in the state's most populous county announced that a recount had added to President-elect Joe Biden's lead. Albeit slightly: Out of the roughly 460,000 b****ts cast in Milwaukee County, Biden made a net gain of 132 v**es on review.

The results offer unwelcome news for Trump, who lost to Biden in Wisconsin by roughly 20,000 v**es and lost the national popular v**e by more than 6 million.

The Trump campaign paid the Wisconsin E******ns Commission a fee of $3 million to proceed with recounts in Milwaukee and Dane counties. The two counties, which together account for roughly a quarter of the state's population, swung heavily for Biden with 69% and 75% of the v**e, respectively.

Dane County is expected to wrap up its own recount by the end of the weekend.

Trump and his allies have repeatedly and baselessly claimed that widespread fraud decided the e******n for his rival — not just in Wisconsin but also in other battleground states such as Pennsylvania and Michigan. Those claims have not held up in court, however, and Trump's legal setbacks have mounted in recent weeks.

"Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an e******n unfair does not make it so," federal appellate Judge Stephanos Bibas wrote in an opinion released Friday denying the Trump campaign's challenge of the results in Pennsylvania. "Charges require specific allegations and then proof," said Bibas, whom Trump nominated to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2017. "We have neither here."

The defeats have failed to dissuade Trump, who continued to tweet false claims overnight, saying without evidence that the v**es against him in Pennsylvania and "all other swing states" were "R****D."

Still, his efforts may be having the unintended effect of underlining the veracity of the e******n results. Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson said Friday that the recount's results should affirm v**ers' faith in the e******n process.

"The recount demonstrates what we already know: that e******ns in Milwaukee County are fair, t***sparent, accurate and secure," he said Friday, according to Reuters.

The clock is ticking for the Trump campaign if it wants to continue to press its case in Wisconsin. The state's v**e is due to be certified by Tuesday.