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Voters wait to cast their votes in the 2020 US Presidential Election at the C. Blythe Andrews, Jr. Public Library in Tampa, USA, November 3, 2020. Americans vote on Wednesday elections to choose between reelecting Donald J. Trump or electing Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States to serve from 2021 to 2024. EPA-EFE / PETER FOLEY
Trump supporters gathered Wednesday at a Michigan vote counting center trying to stop the counting of mail-in ballots. A short time later, Michigan went to Biden, but four other states are still up for grabs.
US President Donald Trump’s campaign claims that Georgia’s absentee ballots were late and therefore should not be counted. Trump and Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden are in a tight race in Georgia and Trump’s lead in the state is slipping as the count continues through Wednesday night. As of this writing, Georgia polls showed a small gap, less than 1% between the two men.
Trump is taking legal action against the states of Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan. For weeks he has been hinting at the fact that he would go to court if he felt he was losing the election, so the lawsuits they are not unexpected.
Joyce Brewer, a Georgia resident, a 47-year-old freelance African-American content creator who spoke with Daily maverick Wednesday afternoon. He said Georgia was tense, waiting for the final numbers, but also not surprised that the state leaned toward Trump:
“I didn’t expect Georgia to turn around and vote Democrats for president, but I’m optimistic about at least one of the Senate seats … Georgia votes for Trump, it’s still tight, but it doesn’t surprise me at all.”
Brewer says she is concerned because “we still have to move and work and live in these spaces where there are people who clearly support her style of treating others, which is very un-American. So that’s what discourages me, that there are still so many people who came out to support Trump. “
She added that she is concerned about the violence, especially in Atlanta, as everyone is tense: “I am restless and apprehensive because anything can happen. I just do not know “.
On Wednesday afternoon, Joe Biden repeated that all votes must be counted before the winner can be announced. However, he was confident of winning, saying that: “After a long night of counting, it is clear that we are winning in enough states to reach the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. I am not here to declare that we have won, but I am here to report that when the count is over, we believe we will be the winners. “
Earlier on Wednesday, a convention center in Detroit where about 170,000 absent ballots were counted was attacked by angry Trump supporters who wanted the count stopped.
Donald Trump, who had apparently led his supporters to demand that the vote counting be stopped, using his example of trying to legally stop the counting, took to Twitter to draw attention to the “Missing Ballot Counting Chaos in Detroit.” .
Missing Ballot Counting Chaos in Detroit, Windows Locked and Observers https://t.co/KzIwhbQrDt via @BreitbartNews
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2020
A wave of mostly peaceful marches has taken place across the country, from Portland, Oregon, to Philadelphia, New York and Chicago. People from various organizations, including a number of grassroots and civic groups, as well as Black Lives Matter and ShutDownDC, want all votes to be counted. There were incidents in Portland, Oregon, where the National Guard was called and some riots were reported in Michigan. Thousands of New Yorkers marched without incident.
The race is extremely close, as Biden at press time needs only a five-state state where votes were still counted to win.
For Trump to win, he would need to win all five: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Arizona. 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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