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The Secret Service sent reinforcements to Wilmington, Delaware, where the designated election winner waits patiently at home for the remaining votes to be counted. The FAA has also treated Joe Biden as the president-elect of the United States since Friday morning. Airplanes are no longer allowed to fly over the property within a mile radius.
Shortly after 9 a.m., the Democrat had surpassed Donald Trump in counting the mail-in ballots in his home state of Pennsylvania. In the evening, Biden surpassed the incumbent in the southern state of Georgia. In both cases, it was the ballot papers from the black metropolises – Atlanta and Philadelphia – that robbed the White House man of the last hope of a second term.
Americans now feverishly await the “Call” from the “Associated Press,” which has declared itself the winner of the election since 1848. Arizona had already awarded AP Biden, even though Trump caught up with the count. In Nevada, the Democrat was still ahead. Given the clear advantage in Pennsylvania, Biden would be “president-elect” even without victories in Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia.
Video: Andreas Pfeifer of ZIB’s foreign editorial team looks at the American election thriller.
- Video: Both Trump supporters and opponents of the president are gathering in front of the White House. ORF correspondent Christophe Kohl reports.
While Biden delivered a short speech to urge patience, Trump raged in the White House press room without any evidence or clue against the alleged electoral fraud: “If you count the valid votes, I will win easily.”
The president lashed out for seventeen minutes without supporting a single accusation with facts. The major television stations stopped broadcasting live within minutes. “We have to interrupt now because the president has made a number of false claims,” Lester Holt told NBC of the unprecedented intervention to his viewers.
“Fat turtle”
FOX and CNN aired the bizarre appearance, but then felt compelled to clarify that Trump’s remarks were unfounded. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said the president was acting like a “fat tortoise who lay on his back in the hot sun and paddled with his legs as he realized his time was up.”
Trump had already said before the elections that he could only lose if things were not done well. The media and social networks were prepared for a Trump campaign to delegitimize the elections. Twitter and Facebook provided warnings to Trump’s posts.
- Video: Hannelore Veit (ORF) on the long wait
Facebook suspended an account of former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon, who suggested beheading disloyal government officials like top virologist Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Chris Wray on his podcast.
Many Republicans were silent or distanced from him, such as Trump’s debate coach, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. He stated that there was no evidence of electoral fraud. He said it as a former federal prosecutor. “There is nothing there.”
So far, the courts have seen it that way too, dismissing Trump’s lawsuits in quick succession.
