Biden: All votes must be counted
Joe Biden spoke in presidential tones during the night: “More than 150 million people voted, it is clear that we are winning in a sufficient number of states to reach 270. I am not here to announce my victory, but to say that everyone votes must be counted. To move forward we must stop treating our opponents as enemies. We are not enemies. I campaigned as a Democrat, but I will govern as an American president ».
Trump in the armored fortress
Trump’s failure to recognize a Biden points victory risks sparking endless protests and painful new social rifts. The White House, since May after the protests for the killing of George Floyd, is impossible to get close. It looks like an armored fortress more than the home of all Americans. Surrounded by two rings of fences three meters high and by riot police officers, with the president locked inside who – it is now clear – will not accept defeat.
The international observers of the OECD who are monitoring the regularity of the elections point the finger at the accusations made by Trump towards the reliability of the American electoral process, saying that they are putting trust in democracy at risk.
Demonstrations to protect the vote
In the aftermath of Election Day with a rumor on social media, a hundred demonstrations “to protect the vote” were organized by leftist movements and associations, from Black Lives Matter to Greenpeace. The most important in New York in front of the Central Library in Manhattan. In Detroit there have been tensions with several hundred Trump supporters who have demonstrated calling for a suspension of the count, as the president did in a legal action shortly before the assignment of the state to Biden.
The fallibility of the polls
What the American vote has already said is that the polls, as in 2016, have completely wrong the predictions. Trump was helped by the Latin vote in Florida and Texas, where he increased the vote. Latinos who have become the largest ethnic group in the country surpassing African Americans in number of voters.
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