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+++ Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory still looming +++ Leadership expanded in Pennsylvania and Georgia +++ Count continues +++ Donald Trump’s chief of staff tested positive for corona virus +++ according to a report

12.15 pm, November 7, 2020

The race is not over yet © AFP

Before his probable victory in the US elections, the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden called the Americans to unity. “We can be opponents, but not enemies,” stressed Biden, while the last votes were counted after the presidential election. It is time to let go of anger and work together in a nation. Biden is ahead in important states and on his way to victory.

Biden pointed to his Appearance on Saturday night little doubt of his victory. “We will win this race by a clear majority and the nation is behind us,” he said at his home in Wilmington, Delaware.

Election investigators at Decision Desk HQ have already declared Biden the winner of the election. According to this, Biden won the state of Pennsylvania and thus the presidential election with 273 voters. Big media like CNN, NBC, MSNBC or Fox have not yet followed the “call.” The relatively young electoral data company competes with the AP news agency, which also analyzes the electoral data. Well known analyst Nate Silver of the online statistics portal FiveThirtyEight commented positively on Decision Desk HQ’s decision on Twitter. “The result has been apparent for some time,” Silver wrote. There is no reason why other sources should not follow.

According to current state figures Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona Y Nevada Biden is in the lead everywhere. Joe Biden said, however, that he would not be declared the winner yet, after all, they would still be counted. The incumbent Donald Trump had claimed victory long before and claimed without any evidence that Democrats were trying to steal the presidency from him through fraud.

Record number of new corona infections

Biden said at the same time, he and the finalist candidate Kamala harris have already started, among other things Measures against the corona pandemic to work. Americans who have already died can no longer be helped, but “we can save many lives in the future,” the 77-year-old said. Biden accuses Trump of having failed in the Corona crisis and thus unnecessarily causing the deaths of many Americans. The number of new infections every day rose to record levels of more than 120,000 this week.

The count continues

The counting of the results of Tuesday’s elections continues. With the current state of the race, Biden would only have to win the state of Pennsylvania with his 20 voters to secure the majority of the 270 voters needed for victory.

After races that have already been decided in most states in the United States, former Vice President Barack Obama already has at least 253 votes. It was also ahead in Georgia, Arizona and Nevada. On the contrary, things were looking good for Trump in North Carolina and Alaska, which, however, would not be enough for him.

The recount is dragging on in this year’s U.S. elections due to high turnout and the corona pandemic. Many states had adjusted their rules for voting by mail, among other things, so as not to expose voters to the risk of infection at the elections office. Millions of Americans used it.

the In the US, the president is not elected directly, but through an electoral meeting (Electoral College) in December. The inauguration will take place on January 20, 2021.

Trump: “voices disappeared”

The incumbent lamented in a tweet on Friday night that he had had “great leadership” in all the disputed states in the presidential elections, which later “miraculously disappeared.” “Perhaps this leadership will return when we move forward with our legal process,” Trump said.

The president announced that he would defend himself against defeat with a series of trials up to the Supreme Court. Trump’s team general manager Matt Morgan said Friday: “This election is not over.” Now there are criticisms of Trump’s behavior after the elections in Trump’s party. Several prominent Republicans urged respect for the rule of a democracy.

There are no indications of massive electoral fraud. Election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) concluded that they had “found no evidence of systemic problems.”

+++ Live ticker for US elections +++

If every electoral votes attributed in different sources distinguish should, is due to the type of count. While Fox News has already attributed Biden to Arizona, for example, CNN was even more cautious and waited. In the USA. AP news agency as a reliable standard for serious outcome forecasts in the states. The official figures – naturally not until later – from State Attorney General, a kind of attorney general in the respective state.

For reference: what happened in the first 24 hours of the election





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