“If the President realizes the threat of going to court to try to prevent the proper counting of votes, we have legal teams on standby to resist this effort”, said Jen O’Malley Dillon, strategist for Biden’s presidential campaign.
After long hours of scrutiny, the 45th American President, who made the White House the headquarters of the Republican electoral night, went public to claim victory in advance – suffrages continue to be counted and the outcome of this process may only take place next Friday. This is after the Democratic opponent has expressed confidence in winning the Presidency.A handful of US states will take days to complete the vote count. This year, the process was complicated by the increase in early voting, either by post or in person.
“We were preparing to win this election. Frankly, we won this election. This is a major fraud against our nation. We want the law to be used properly. So we go to the United States Supreme Court. We want to stop all voting”, disparou Trump.
As the scores were reported, throughout the night, it was clear that Biden would not be able to stamp a heavy victory over Trump, number one in key states like Florida, Ohio and Texas. However, the Democratic candidate, who anticipated his opponent in a discourse of evident strategic nature, would say he was on the way to conquer three states that are also potentially decisive: Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, a trio of the so-called “wall blue”.
“We feel good about where we are. We believe we are on the way to winning this election ”, launched Biden from its state, Delaware.
Early in the morning in Lisbon, the Democratic presidential candidate gathered more than 230 votes in Electoral College, against Donald Trump’s 213. In theory, even without a victory in critical Pennsylvania, Biden could reach the Oval Office with Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin, along with just one district in Nebraska – a state that distributes votes at the Electoral College by district. But as long as he held states that Trump lost to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
While Biden leads in Nevada, one of those states where Trump was beaten four years ago, the candidate for re-election emerges ahead in Georgia, where he won quickly in 2016.
“It is up to voters”
It was on Twitter, Trump’s favorite platform, that Biden reacted to the President’s speech, saying that it is not up to him or his opponent to “declare the winner of this election”: “It is up to the voters”.
It’s not my place or Donald Trump’s place to declare the winner of this election. It’s the voters’ place.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 4, 2020
Trump was faithful, in short, to what he had foreshadowed early in the campaign, accusing the Democratic camp of “trying to steal the election”.
“We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be admitted after the closing of the meetings ”, wrote the President on Twitter, before appearing before cameras at the White House.
We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after the Polls are closed!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 4, 2020
It is tweet would end up being the subject of a warning from the social network.
The state of play
By 4:00 am (9:00 am in Lisbon), Biden had 238 members of the Electoral College, after inflicting setbacks on Trump in the states of Arizona (11 major voters), California (55) Colorado (nine), Connecticut (seven), le Delaware ( three), Hawaii (four), Illinois (20), Maine (three in four), Maryland (ten), Massachusetts (11), Minnesota (ten), Nebraska (one), New Hampshire (four), New Jersey (14 ), New York (29), New Mexico (five), Oregon (seven), Rhode Island (four), Vermont (three), Virginia (13), Washington DC (three) and Washington State (12).More than 100 million American voters voted in advance.
Trump had 213 major voters, conquering the key states of Texas (38) and Florida (29). He also won in Alabama (nine), Arkansas (six), South Carolina (nine), North Dakota (three), South Dakota (three), Idaho (four), Indiana (11), Iowa (six), Kansas (six), Kentucky (eight), Louisiana (eight), Montana (three), Mississippi (six), Missouri (ten), Nebraska (four), Ohio (18), Oklahoma (seven), Tennessee (11), Utah (six), West Virginia (five) and Wyoming (three).
At that time, the results of Pennsylvania (20 major voters), Michigan (16), Georgia (16), North Carolina (15) and Wisconsin (ten) were still to be determined. Nevada may take several days to announce a winner. Maine still lacked a member of the Electoral College.
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