Joe Biden of the Democratic Party won the US presidential election. On the American morning of Saturday (afternoon in Italy) the ballot in Pennsylvania sanctioned his overtaking on the outgoing president Donald Trump, making his victory – likely for two days now – certain enough to unbalance the television networks, which during the entire ballots examine the data to estimate where candidates are confident of prevailing.
The votes still lacking in Pennsylvania are coming from areas where Biden has won by very wide margins and the victory in Pennsylvania is more than enough to push him beyond the 270 voter threshold that enshrines the result. Donald Trump is the fourth president in American history to fail to be re-elected, and the first by George HW Bush in 1992.
Biden’s 77-year-old victory will likely be even larger than it appears now: he also has the advantage in Arizona, Nevada and Georgia, where the ballot is still ongoing. Were he to win in all these states, he would eventually get 306 big voters – exactly how many Trump won in 2016. Unlike Trump, however, who won four years ago despite taking three million fewer votes than his opponent Hillary Clinton, Biden has won many more votes than his opponent: they are already more than four million and will become at least six to seven million when the ballot in California is completed, the most populous state in the country and one of the most favorable to the Democratic Party. In any case, Joe Biden is already the most voted candidate in the history of the US presidential elections.
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In one of several historical aspects of Biden’s victory – in addition to the record number of votes taken, beating an outgoing president and winning in Republican states for decades – his vice president will be Kamala Harris, 56, now a California senator, who will become the first woman and first non-white person after Charles Curtis, vice president with Herbert Hoover who was Native American on his mother’s side, to hold the position.
The states with the lighter colors have yet to be officially assigned, but they reflect who is ahead. To win, you need at least 270 electors.
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Despite the established practice in American politics whereby both candidates do not question the legitimacy of the vote, and rather put an end to the arguments of the election campaign by congratulating the opponent and admitting defeat, for days President Donald Trump has been behaving in a manner completely opposite. His refusal to accept the reality of the electoral result, in the absence of any evidence of fraud and irregularity, resulted in several lawsuits announced in the hanging states and in a speech delivered by the White House Thursday night, defined “The most dishonest speech” of his presidency.
While appearing at times tired and resigned, Trump has made accusations as groundless as they are violent, arguing that the Democrats are trying to “rig” the elections (there is no evidence that they are doing it), that “if we only take into account the votes legal, I won “(false: and there is no evidence that” illegal “votes exist), that pollsters inflated Biden’s votes to discourage Republican voters from voting (false) and that he won in the state of Pennsylvania (fake). Of course it is Trump’s right to file appeals and ask for investigations, but at the moment it does not appear that these accusations have any basis: and Trump himself had said several times, well before the vote, that he did not know if he would accept a possible defeat.
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In any case, Trump cannot refuse to leave the White House: the president’s powers expire on January 20, 2021 at noon, when the inauguration ceremony of the new president of the United States will be held outside Congress in Washington DC. The interregnum phase between the elections and the installation is usually dedicated to the transfer of powers from the current to the next administration, with appointments and handover, and is always conducted with great care and fairness by all parties involved, victorious or defeats. It is safe to assume that the same will not happen this time around, and that the fact that Trump will continue to be president until January 20 could lead to strong tensions and controversy.
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