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Joe Biden leads Donald Trump in the race for the 270 electoral votes that will put one of them on top.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden watches as he speaks at Queen’s headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 5, 2020. Image: AFP.
WILMINGTON / WASHINGTON – Democrat Joe Biden said Thursday that he “had no doubt” that he would defeat President Donald Trump and be declared the winner of the US election, insisting that voters be patient and that the outcome will be known “very soon. “.
“We continue to feel very good about where things are. We have no doubt that when the count is over, Senator (Kamala) Harris and I will be declared winners,” Biden told reporters in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.
Biden is leading Trump in the race for the 270 electoral votes that will put one of them on top, and the Democrat’s campaign claims they believe he has enough votes to win in key battlefield states that remain undecided. like Pennsylvania.
THE ROLE OF PENNSYLVANIA
The exciting elections were about to finally produce a winner on Thursday, with Biden solidifying his lead over Trump and the decisive state of Pennsylvania set to publish the results.
Two days after the most tense election in decades, the meticulous vote-counting process, complicated this year by an avalanche of mail-in ballots due to the coronavirus crisis, has reached the end of the game.
The 77-year-old Biden was just one or, at most, two states on the battlefield from getting a majority to take the White House. Trump, 74, needed an increasingly unlikely combination of victories in various states to stay in power.
The Republican, who shocked the world when he won the presidency in 2016 in his first run for public office, spent another day lashing out at the election, alleging fraud and demanding that the counting of votes be stopped.
“IF YOU COUNT THE LEGAL VOTES, I WIN THE ELECTION EASILY!” He stated in a statement sent by his campaign, without accompanying evidence. “IF YOU COUNT THE ILLEGAL AND LATE VOTES, THEY MAY STEAL THE ELECTION FROM US!”
Biden, who vowed to heal a country battered by Trump’s four extraordinarily polarizing years in power, maintained his distinctive message of calm.
“Be patient folks. Votes are being counted and we feel good about where we are,” he tweeted.
In Georgia, a generally Republican state, Trump had a slim and dwindling lead of less than 13,000. With 98% of the votes already counted, the president and Biden were heading for a photographic finale.
In Arizona and Nevada, Biden kept few leads. If Biden wins both states, he would also win the presidency.
But the biggest piece of the puzzle was Pennsylvania, where Trump’s head start was again steadily depleted as election officials focused on processing mail-in ballots, which are typically cast by Biden supporters.
The Democratic candidate currently has 253 of the 538 electoral votes distributed among the 50 states of the country, and 264 with the inclusion of Arizona, which Fox News and the Associated Press have called in his favor.
If Biden took Pennsylvania, he would get 20 more electoral votes, instantly taking him above the 270 needed for overall victory.
Pennsylvania’s official election supervisor Kathy Boockvar told CNN that a winner there “could definitely” be determined by the close of business Thursday.
Around 550,000 ballots were still being counted and “it seems that today we will have the overwhelming majority counted,” he said.
TRUMP OFF
The Trump campaign continued to insist that the president has a way of winning, citing pockets of Republican support that have yet to be counted in such close races.
But Trump’s overwhelming focus was claiming, without evidence, that he was the victim of massive fraud.
Trump prematurely declared victory on Wednesday and threatened to request the Supreme Court to intervene to stop the vote counting, but he has nonetheless continued.
Since then, his team has been deployed across the battlefield states challenging the results in court and organizing a series of press conferences where supporters filed complaints of wrongdoing.
“STOP THE COUNT!” Trump tweeted Thursday, referring to his claim that mail-in ballots in particular are fraudulent.
But while Trump demanded that the count be stopped in Georgia and Pennsylvania, where he leads, his supporters and his campaign insisted that he continue in Arizona and Nevada, where he lags behind.
The campaign has announced lawsuits in Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania and Michigan, where it has already been thrown out, as well as demanding a recount in Wisconsin, where Biden won by just 20,000 votes.
Bob Bauer, a lawyer for Biden’s campaign, dismissed the large number of lawsuits as “without merit.”
“All of this is meant to create a big cloud,” Bauer said. “But it is not a very thick cloud. We see through it. Also the courts and election officials.”
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