Trump Backers to Renew Detroit Protests After Ballot Count Ends
- Judge declines to stop absentee count; Michigan says it’s done
- Demonstrators vow to return to site where ballots were tallied
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Supporters of President Donald Trump planned new protests against the absentee-ballot counting process at the TCF Center in Detroit after a state court judge on Thursday blocked an effort by his campaign to stop tallying votes.
Brandon Straka, a liberal-turned-conservative activist who founded the Walk Away Campaign in 2017 to encourage liberals to support Trump, put out a call to his 643,000 Twitter followers to come to Detroit on Friday morning to protest what he called a “stolen election.” Other conservative activists echoed the call on social-media with ready-made websites.