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California certifies its final vote with Biden as the winner, while Trump heads to Georgia ahead of key Senate elections.
California, the most populous state in the United States, has certified its election results, naming 55 voters who have pledged to vote for President-elect Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
Friday’s certification in the Democratic stronghold is the latest milestone in a presidential race that has introduced greater drama than ever before in the country’s idiosyncratic – and historically mundane – electoral administration.
With California, Biden currently has 279 pledged voters, up from the 270 electoral votes required for victory, the Associated Press news agency said. It is projected to obtain a total of 306 electoral votes.
The Electoral College is made up of voters from each state, roughly proportional to the population. In most cases, all electors in a state have committed, or are required by law, to vote for the candidate who obtained the most votes in that state.
While it has been reliably projected that Biden won the election for weeks, his victory will not become official until the Electoral College votes on December 14 and that vote is approved by Congress on January 6.
Then, Biden will be sworn in on January 20, when President Donald Trump’s term ends.
Trump, meanwhile, has continued to refuse to budge and has remained stubborn in his unsubstantiated claims that the election was marred by widespread fraud.
Multiple lawsuits and a recount in Wisconsin have failed to bring Trump closer in his extremely risky attempt to overturn the results. State election officials, federal judges and individuals appointed by the Trump administration itself have repeatedly said that there is no evidence of widespread fraud.
Attempts to convince Republican state lawmakers to question the election results have also been unsuccessful for Trump.
Still, on Friday, the Trump campaign launched another lawsuit, this one in Georgia, in an attempt to contest more than 100,000 votes in the state.
On November 20, after a complete manual recount of all votes cast, Georgia certified Biden as the victor with a margin of more than 12,000 votes. A subsequent recount requested by the Trump campaign at the expense of state taxpayers currently shows Biden at the helm.
But the president’s most recent lawsuit alleges that “massive irregularities, mistakes and potential fraud” occurred in the state.
While the legal challenge is not expected to be successful, there is evidence that the president’s claims may be preventing Republicans from voting in the Jan.5 U.S. Senate election in Georgia, which will ultimately decide which party he controls. the influential chamber.
On Wednesday, hundreds of Trump supporters gathered in a park near Atlanta to call for a boycott of the vote, citing Trump’s fraud allegations.
The president will travel to Georgia late Saturday night in support of Republican candidates David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, who are competing against Democratic candidates John Ossof and Raphael Warnock, respectively.
Biden also plans to visit Georgia, which has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1992, in the coming days to shore up support for the party’s Senate candidates.
Monday is the last day for Georgia residents to register to vote.
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