华盛顿——总统的狂热支持者唐纳德·特朗普周六在华盛顿集会，支持他伪造的失窃索赔选举当他在出城的路上绕道路过时，他的车队蜂拥而至。
几个小时后，在首都夜幕降临后，支持特朗普的示威者在街上与反对者发生冲突，社交媒体上发布的视频显示了斗殴、投掷物和俱乐部。官员称，警方以各种罪名逮捕了至少20人，包括袭击和持有武器。据报道，发生了一起刺伤事件，两名警察受伤，警方还找到了几件火器。
在民主党人乔·拜登被宣布为民主党总统候选人一周后选举，其他城市也发生了支持特朗普的示威活动。对行政权力转移前景的愤怒没有减弱的迹象，暗示了总统在他实际输掉的竞选中不屈不挠的胜利主张。
“我只是想让他振作起来，让他知道我们支持他，”弗吉尼亚州温彻斯特的安东尼·惠特克(Anthony Whittaker)在最高法院外说。几千人从白宫附近的自由广场沿着宾夕法尼亚大道游行后，聚集在最高法院外。
一个由政府和行业高层官员组成的广泛联盟宣布，11月3日的投票和随后的计票进展顺利，没有出现通常的小问题——“美国历史上最安全的”，他们说，驳斥了特朗普破坏竞选完整性的努力。
在佛罗里达州的德尔雷海滩，数百人游行，一些人举着写着“清点每一张选票”和“我们不能生活在马克思主义政府下”的标语。在密歇根州的兰辛，抗议者聚集在国会大厦，听取发言人对拜登以超过14万张选票赢得该州的结果表示怀疑。凤凰城警方估计，1500人聚集在亚利桑那州国会大厦外，抗议拜登在该州险胜。俄勒冈州塞勒姆的抗议者聚集在国会大厦。
周六早上，华盛顿的人群开始聚集，当特朗普的豪华轿车靠近自由广场时，欢呼声响起。人们站在街道两旁，有些人站在离特朗普的车只有几英尺远的地方。其他人则跟着大篷车跑，以示热情。
他们高呼“美国，美国”和“再四年”，许多人举着美国国旗和标志，表示他们对投票结果的不满。在绕着场地缓慢行驶了一小段弯路后，车队前往总统的弗吉尼亚高尔夫俱乐部。
发言者中有一名新当选为美国众议院议员的佐治亚州共和党人。马乔里·泰勒·格林表达了种族主义观点，支持卡农的阴谋论，他敦促人们和平地走向最高法院。
游行者包括骄傲男孩组织的成员，这是一个新法西斯组织，以在政治集会上与意识形态对手街头斗殴而闻名。
游行在白天基本上是和平的，但在晚上变得紧张起来，出现了多次对抗，当时一小批特朗普支持者试图进入黑人的命也是命广场周围的地区，该地区距离白宫约一个街区，数百名反特朗普示威者聚集在那里。
在一种不断重复的模式中，那些接近该地区的特朗普支持者受到骚扰，被浇上水，并在欢呼声中看到他们的MAGA帽子和亲特朗普的旗帜被抢走并烧毁。夜幕降临时，多条警察线将双方隔开。
社交媒体上发布的视频显示，一些示威者和反示威者相互推搡、拳打脚踢。一个拿着扩音器喊着“滚出去!”被一名男子推到街上，然后被几个人包围，被推搡和殴打，直到他脸朝下摔倒在街上。他浑身是血，头昏眼花，被人抱起，走向一名警官。
“百万马加游行”在社交媒体上得到大力宣传，引发了人们对它可能引发与反特朗普示威者冲突的担忧，这些人已经在黑人的命也是命广场的白宫附近聚集了几周。
作为准备，警方关闭了市区的大片区域，自选举日以来，许多商店和办公室都被封锁了。该市国土安全和应急管理局局长克里斯·罗德里格斯(Chris Rodriguez)表示，警方在维护和平方面经验丰富。
特朗普的竞选团队及其盟友指出的问题在每次选举中都很典型:签名、保密信封和邮寄选票上的邮政标记问题，以及少量选票失败或丢失的可能性。由于拜登在关键的战场州以较大优势领先特朗普，这些问题都不会对选举结果产生任何影响。
特朗普的竞选团队也提出了法律挑战，抱怨他们的投票观察人员无法审查投票过程。许多质疑都被法官驳回了，有些质疑在提交后几小时内就被驳回了。
一名前政府官员塞巴斯蒂安·戈尔卡(Sebastian Gorka)在最高法院煽动群众说，“我们能赢，因为他确实赢了。”但是，他补充说，“这将是艰难的。”
Thousands rally behind Trump, insisting he won race he lost
WASHINGTON -- Fervent supporters of PresidentDonald Trumprallied in Washington on Saturday behind his spurious claim of a stolenelectionand swarmed his motorcade in adulation when he detoured for a drive-by on his way out of town.
Hours later, after night fell in the nation's capital, demonstrators favoring Trump clashed in the streets with counterprotesters, videos posted on social media showing fistfights, projectiles and clubs. Police arrested at least 20 people on a variety of charges, including assault and weapons possession, officials said. One stabbing was reported, two police officers were injured and several firearms were also recovered by police.
A week after Democrat Joe Biden was declared the winner of theelection, demonstrations in support of Trump also took place in other cities. Fury at the prospect of a transfer of executive power showed no signs of abating, taking a cue the president’s unrelenting assertion of victory in a race he actually lost.
“I just want to keep up his spirits and let him know we support him,” one loyalist, Anthony Whittaker of Winchester, Virginia, said from outside the Supreme Court, where a few thousand assembled after a march along Pennsylvania Avenue from Freedom Plaza, near the White House.
A broad coalition of top government and industry officials has declared that the Nov. 3 voting and the following count unfolded smoothly with no more than the usual minor hiccups — “the most secure in American history,” they said, repudiating Trump's efforts to undermine the integrity of the contest.
In Delray Beach, Florida, several hundred people marched, some carrying signs reading “Count every vote” and “We cannot live under a Marxist government.” In Lansing, Michigan, protesters gathered at the Capitol to hear speakers cast doubt on results that showed Biden winning the state by more than 140,000 votes. Phoenix police estimated 1,500 people gathered outside the Arizona Capitol to protest Biden's narrow victory in the state. Protesters in Salem, Oregon, gathered at the Capitol.
The crowd in Washington was beginning to gather Saturday morning when cheers rang out as Trump's limousine neared Freedom Plaza. People lined both sides of the street, some standing just a few feet away from Trump’s vehicle. Others showed their enthusiasm by running along with the caravan.
They chanted “USA, USA” and “four more years,” and many carried American flags and signs to show their displeasure with the vote tally. After making the short detour for the slow drive around the site, the motorcade headed to the president’s Virginia golf club.
Among the speakers was a Georgia Republican newly elected to the U.S. House. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has expressed racist views and support for QAnon conspiracy theories, urged people to march peacefully toward the Supreme Court.
The marchers included members of the Proud Boys, a neo-fascist group known for street brawling with ideological opponents at political rallies.
The march was largely peaceful during the day before turning tense at night, with multiple confrontations as small groups of Trump supporters attempted to enter the area around Black Lives Matter Plaza, about a block from the White House, where several hundred anti-Trump demonstrators had gathered.
In a pattern that kept repeating itself, those Trump supporters who approached the area were harassed, doused with water and saw their MAGA hats and pro-Trump flags snatched and burned, amid cheers. As night fell, multiple police lines kept the two sides apart.
Videos posted on social media showed some demonstrators and counterdemonstrators trading shoves, punches and slaps. A man with a bullhorn yelling “Get out of here!” was shoved and pushed to the street by a man who was then surrounded by several people and shoved and punched until he fell face first into the street. Bloody and dazed, he was picked up and walked to a police officer.
The “Million MAGA March” was heavily promoted on social media, raising concerns that it could spark conflict with anti-Trump demonstrators, who have gathered near the White House in Black Lives Matter Plaza for weeks.
In preparation, police closed off wide swaths of downtown, where many stores and offices have been boarded up since Election Day. Chris Rodriguez, director of the city’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, said the police were experienced at keeping the peace.
The issues that Trump’s campaign and its allies have pointed to are typical in every election: problems with signatures, secrecy envelopes and postal marks on mail-in ballots, as well as the potential for a small number of ballots miscast or lost. With Biden leading Trump by wide margins in key battleground states, none of those issues would have any impact on the outcome of the election.
Trump’s campaign has also filed legal challenges complaining that their poll watchers were unable to scrutinize the voting process. Many of those challenges have been tossed out by judges, some within hours of their filing.
A former administration official, Sebastian Gorka, whipped up the crowd by the Supreme Court by saying, “We can win because he did win.” But, he added, “It's going to be tough.”
