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Supporters of Democratic candidate Joe Biden protest in front of the vote counting center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, November 5, 2020, USA The result of the 2020 US presidential election continues Undetermined, as votes continued to be counted in several key states. EPA-EFE / MARIO CRUZ
Former US Vice President Joe Biden is creeping closer to becoming the 46th US President, while President Donald Trump insists he is winning, “ despite historic election interference from big media, big money and big technology. ”
Donald Trump was addressing the media from the White House meeting room when he made the comments Thursday. Looking slightly paler or less “tanned” than usual, she said:
“The Democrats are the party of the big donors, the big media, the big technology, it seems and the Republicans have become the party of the American worker … The media polls were electoral interference in the real meaning of the word, by powerful special interests … to keep our voters at home … they were what you call repression polls. ”
The three major television news networks in the country, CBS, NBC and ABC, parted ways with the president and returned to their newsrooms.
Trump’s comments were made as Joe Biden seems most likely to win, with numbers in the states of Georgia and Pennsylvania moving, at what seems like an excruciatingly slow pace, in the direction of the Democrat.
In stark contrast, a calm and measured Biden took a moment to reach out to people who had Covid-19 or who had lost a loved one to the disease that has claimed nearly 240,000 Americans. He said he was confident of winning, but “every ballot must be counted … I ask everyone to stay calm … the process is working.”
Vote counting in Philadelphia It came to a brief halt early Thursday when the Trump campaign succeeded in an appeal to have a judge overturn an earlier ruling by a lower court judge. The Trump campaign on Wednesday accused election officials of hiding the vote count and related processes from Republican election watchers, saying watchers were too far away to clearly see what was happening.
The new ruling called for Republican election observers to be allowed “within six feet” (approximately 1.8 m) of the vote counting processes. This caused a temporary halt to the count in order to rearrange the venue to make room for the closer proximity of the observers. The new ruling stated that Observers must be able to “observe all aspects of the counting process within six feet, while adhering to all Covid-19 protocols, including wearing masks and maintaining physical distance.”
The Trump campaign returned to the Philadelphia courthouse again after 6 p.m., claiming that its observers, although given six-foot proximity to the counting process, were not allowed “equal access.” The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that United States District Judge Paul Diamond was, at times, “exasperated” and said to both parties: “Can we be responsible adults here …”
Outside the Philadelphia Convention Center in the early afternoon, the Count Every Vote protesters and Trump supporters were largely peaceful. Miles Bryan from the public radio station WHYNews He tweeted that being among the protesters felt less like a protest and more like a “festival.”
I’m at the Philadelphia Convention Center to @WHYYNews, where dozens of Trump supporters are protesting (?) the vote count inside, while dozens of anti-Trump people yell “count all the votes,” all while scores of reporters compete for interviews.
It feels like a festival pic.twitter.com/Jfh2X0aser
– Miles Bryan (@miles__bryan) November 5, 2020
All eyes were on Georgia late Thursday night as the last ballots were slowly finalized, but even as the number of ballots still to be counted grew smaller and smaller, he was still too close to call the At the time of writing this article: an estimated 99% of the votes had been counted. Trump supporters gathered at a tally center in Atlanta, Georgia, to demand that the counting of votes be stopped. Biden is also slowly taking the lead from Trump in Pennsylvania, with an estimated 95% of the votes counted at the time of this writing and Trump leading by a mere 0.3%.
The protests took place across the country again on Thursday, into the evening, and not all were peaceful. Count Every Vote supporters observed a moment of silence to remember those who had died from Covid-19 and those who died at the hands of the police. In New York City, several protesters were arrested for the second night in a row as the police blocked the protesters And it started making arrests when Biden supporters allegedly clashed with Trump supporters. A police officer was also injured at the scene. DM
An Wentzel is Night Editor, a specialist reporter for the Daily Maverick, she went to the United States to visit her family when the pandemic struck and is currently abandoned in the land of the ‘free’.
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