The tension that involves the delicate assignment of delegates at the 538-member Electoral College, which will define the winner of the dispute, has been transferred to the streets under the slogan “Count every vote”.
This is demonstrated in reports by Efe journalists – Laura Barros, Jorge Fuentelsaz, David Villafranca and Alfonso Fernández – in cities like Washington, New York, Los Angeles and Detroit.
The day after the vote began without the winner being known and with the candidates, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, attentive to the results in the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina, and to a district of Maine.
The latest projections give Biden 264 of the 270 delegates needed to win, compared to the incumbent Republican’s 214.
Trump, who declared himself victorious at dawn today, before knowing the definitive results, pointed to the existence of “electoral fraud”, but without advancing evidence, and threatened to go to the Supreme Court to interrupt the counting of votes.
The streets were not deaf to political polarization.
In the federal capital, Washington, hundreds awaited the first projections in the vicinity of the White House.
“Without hatred or fear, every vote counts here”, proclaimed a group of people, whose march forced to interrupt traffic on several streets in the city.
In New York, with most shops on 5th Avenue protected by wooden panels, everything was also prepared for demonstrations.
In total, nine marches were called for Wednesday afternoon, in the districts of Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens, with slogans such as “Say no to fascism” or “We don’t want Trump to steal the elections”.
In Los Angeles, the movement “Black Lives Matter” (“Black Lives Matter”) called for a concentration in the city center this afternoon.
In Michigan State, which became the second state, after Wisconsin, where the Trump campaign appealed to the court to demand the suspension of vote counting, protesters were preparing parades in Ferndale, Brighton, Ann Arbor, Lansing and Grand Rapids.
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