When this text was written, de jure five states were still counting votes, but in fact it would not change anything. In Nevada, the smallest of the five, because it has six electoral votes, Biden’s advantage grows and will continue to grow. The missing votes are from Clark County, home to Las Vegas, a traditionally Democratic-friendly city. Four years ago, Hillary Clinton won there by 11 points, eight years ago Obama 15 and 12 years ago – 19.
In Arizona (11 electoral votes) Biden’s team is also very confident of success. The advantage of the former vice president is decreasing, but not so much that he loses this condition. There are no votes from Maricopa County, which is home to the state capital and one of the largest American metropolises in Phoenix. It is a land where rapid demographic changes are taking place. From traditionally republican it has become democratic quite quickly in the last four years. Biden can also be calm, because the potential votes for Trump are offset by the votes cast for him in the benevolent Democrats, Prima County, where the counting has not ended.
In Georgia (16 electoral votes) and Pennsylvania (20 votes) Trump he had a decisive advantage on election night, which dwindled within 48 hours. In the texts written in the last two weeks in the Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily I mentioned such a scenario, especially in the case of Pennsylvania. This state first gives the results of the wards where people were voted in person, then only adds correspondence votes, and these to a large extent – as has been known for a long time – favor Biden. The people who voted with the help of the election packages did so out of fear of COVID-19, and the Democratic Party electorate is most aware of the threat of this disease.
North Carolina closes the stakes of the five states that still count officially. Only there can Trump be sure of victory.
Joe Biden thus won a total of 306 electoral votes, and in office President – 232. Ironically, with that exact difference Trump won four years ago. It is not called the landslide and electoral mandate the Democrats dreamed of, especially whetting their appetite to win in Texas, but that’s more than John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush had in their victorious campaigns and Richard Nixon before his first term in office.
Trump is becoming more aware that he has been checked and that he has no room for maneuver. Early Thursday evening he delivered a speech that CNN fact checking commentator Daniel Dale called “the most dishonest speech in the history of his presidency.” “He has never lied so much than today,” wrote Dale. Trump insisted that the Democrats were massively faking them electionsthat they want to steal his victory, that he won in the states when they still had hundreds of thousands of votes to count. He juggled words like “fraud” and “corruption.” He accused the opinion polls studios of deliberately overstating Biden’s support to dissuade him voters to vote.
The president pours fuel on the fire and strengthens the piling conspiracy theories with his authority. Here are the most peculiar of them:
The so-called #Sharpiegate. In Maricopa County, some voters used Sharpie markers to scratch names. Trumpists on the internet are spreading the lie that the votes with the marker have been disqualified.
The MAGA people (Make America Great Again) spread informationthat in Fairfax County, Virginia (the southern suburbs of Capital Washington, a democratic-friendly territory), 100,000. votes in favor of Biden. In fact, there was an error in the vote counting system and Biden was “awarded” an additional 100,000. votes, but was quickly fixed.
In Detorit, a highly democratic city, a man was to bring a ballot box to the election commission with thousands of rigged votes for Biden. The conspiracy theories use photos. The truth is that on photographs There is a reporter from one of the local TV stations, and in the box that was supposed to be the urn was the camera and the rest of the equipment.
Some people panic that the office windows where votes were counted in Detroit have been boarded up with chaff in order to be able to falsify voices safely. Meanwhile, the windows were secured in this way, as America was long and wide, for fear of riots that could break out even further, especially if the atmosphere around the result thickened. I myself wrote about installing chipboard in the correspondence published by our editorial office, and I posted photos on social media.
According to a conspiracy theory, there were more votes in Wisconsin than there are registered voters in the state. This is an obvious lie. There are 3.6 million voters and 3.24 million votes. It is worth praising the local electorate for its exemplary attendance.
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