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Democratic challenger Joe Biden has clearly prevailed against Republican President Donald Trump in the US presidential election. As US media CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS reported on Friday afternoon (local time), Biden was also able to secure victory in the beleaguered state of Georgia and thus has 306 voters in the final bill. Trump was able to gather 232 voters.
The Republican politician prevailed in the state of North Carolina. In Georgia there were 16 voters to be awarded, in North Carolina 15. Biden had already been declared the winner by US stations on Saturday morning when he obtained the required absolute majority on the electoral committee with 20 votes from the state of Pennsylvania. Trump refuses to acknowledge his defeat.
Five million votes ahead
Trump had won the 2016 election with Biden’s current expected outcome against then-rival Hillary Clinton: he had 306 voters at the time, Clinton had 232. Trump had spoken of a landslide victory in 2016, though he had fewer votes than Clinton in all the country. Biden was able to differentiate himself from Trump in the popular elections, but the advantage of around five million votes is due almost entirely to the most populous state of California, where Biden achieved a two-thirds majority.
In the United States, it is common for presidential elections to be decided on the basis of the forecasts of the mainstream media, usually on election night. Official results sometimes come much later. Due to the corona pandemic, millions of Americans had voted by letter this year, so the vote count took longer.
Trump repeats accusations
The forecasts came a good hour before Trump’s appearance in the White House rose garden. In tweets sent on Friday afternoon (local time), the headline incited his followers to protest demonstrations. He is encouraged by “all the tremendous support out there, especially at the rallies that naturally spring up across the country,” he wrote. “This election was rigged,” Trump repeated his accusation. He also wrote that he was thinking of coming “and saying hello” to the demonstration on Saturday morning.
Trump is said to have indicated to his confidants that he wanted to submit to his political fate. Trump told him he was realistic and that he would follow the US constitution, Trump’s adviser Geraldo Rivera said in an interview with “Fox News.” Trump said that after counting all the legitimate votes, he would do “the right thing,” Rivera said.
In public, however, Trump’s environment remains inflexible on the president. His spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said on Fox Business News on Friday when asked if Trump would be present at Biden’s inauguration on January 20, 2021: “I think the president will be present at his own inauguration.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a news conference Tuesday: “There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.” Later he relativized the communiqué and affirmed that there would be no problem “whoever is in office at noon on January 20.” But Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro also said on Fox on Friday: “We in the White House continue to act under the assumption that there will be a second term for President Trump.”
