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Gov. Brian Kemp has certified the slate of 16 electors in Georgia for Joe Biden, press secretary Cody Hall confirmed to ABC News, though in brief remarks Friday evening Kemp did not explicitly state that he had.

"Earlier today, Secretary Raffensperger presented -- presented the certified results of the 2020 General Election to my office. Following Judge Grimsberg's ruling yesterday, state law now requires the Governor's office to formalize the certification, which paves the way for the Trump campaign to pursue other legal options, and a separate recount if they choose," Kemp said. 

The deadline for the Trump team to request a recount is 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

"As governor I have a solemn responsibility to follow the law. And that is what I will continue to do,” Kemp said at the end of his remarks.

However, Kemp, who served as secretary of state before he was governor, was also critical of the state's election and the fact that during the audit, thousands of uncounted ballots were discovered, saying Georgians deserve better and will get it ahead of the state’s Senate runoffs in January. 

"It’s quite honestly hard to believe that, during the audit, thousands of uncounted ballots were found, weeks after a razor-thin outcome in a presidential election," he said. "This is simply unacceptable."

-ABC News' Quinn Scanlan

Milwaukee and Dane counties, two of the largest and the most Democratic-leaning counties in Wisconsin, began their recount process Friday, as requested by Trump’s campaign.

Both the Milwaukee County Board of Canvassers and the Dane County Board of Canvassers kicked off their respective meetings at 10 a.m. ET, but much of Friday is being used to prepare for the actual recount. The counties will livestream the entire 13-day process from multiple angles.

These two counties both voted overwhelmingly for Biden, with Dane County at 75.5%-22.8% and Milwaukee County 69.1%-29.3%. Milwaukee also has the state's largest Black population, and the campaign's targeting of voters for not supplying voter ID is likely to come down squarely on people of color, who are already the most disenfranchised by Wisconsin's voter ID laws.

he recount will take place in time for the state's Dec. 1 certification deadline.

Election officials don’t expect the recount to change the results as Biden leads Trump by more than 20,000 votes in the state. 

-ABC News’ Cheyenne Haslett and Soo Rin Kim

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has certified the results of the general election Friday, making it official that Biden won the state's 16 electoral votes.

 "The numbers reflect the verdict of the people, not a decision by the secretary of state's office or our courts, or of either campaigns," Raffensperger said during a Friday morning news conference.

Following the certification of the results, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp must now "certify the slates of presidential electors receiving the highest number of votes" by 5 p.m. Saturday. While the president has repeatedly tagged Kemp in tweets, including one that said, "Republicans must get tough," the governor has not given any indication he will not follow through with his part of this process.

With the certification, a two-business-day time period begins for Trump to request a recount, as he's expected to, since he remains within 0.5% of Biden.

ABC News asked Kemp's office Friday if the governor will definitely certify the electors by the deadline but has not received a response.

-ABC News' Quinn Scanlan

Michigan lawmakers have arrived at the White House and were spotted walking into the West Wing just a couple of minutes before 4 p.m. 

Trump is meeting with at least two Republican leaders ahead of the state's board of canvassers meeting on Monday in an apparent effort to try to influence them to override certification of the state’s vote. This would set up the potential for the GOP-controlled legislature to choose its own slate of pro-Trump electors to vote for the president at the Electoral College's December meeting.

The prospect of the Michigan legislature intervening in a process that it is not involved in by state law is not one that has been publicly embraced in Lansing or on Capitol Hill.

Bob Bauer, a senior adviser to the Biden team, tore into the idea of Trump’s meeting earlier Friday, slamming it as “pathetic” and “an abuse of office,” but he maintained that "there's no way whatsoever" Trump will be successful in overturning the election.

Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield, who is among those meeting with Trump, tweeted earlier in the day he "won't apologize" for accepting a meeting with the president, adding that he's honored to speak with him.