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When Democratic candidate Joe Biden is on the brink of victory, Republican candidate Donald Trump looks for legal ways to avoid it. At the moment, election officials are counting the votes of the last states to determine the final result. And Republican supporters have taken to the streets to protest, fearing possible defeat.
According to Reuters, Trump is making fraud accusations without any evidence, filing a lawsuit and, two days after the polls close, proposing a new recount.
The battle is now being fought for the results of only five states. Biden is a little ahead of Nevada and Arizona. In the potential Trump states of Pennsylvania and Georgia, the gap is narrowing after postal ballots and newly counted votes. In North Carolina, Biden’s gap with Trump is now very small, and time is running out even as the Republican candidate is on the brink of victory.
To win Trump a second time, he must win Arizona or Nevada, one of the states ahead of him. Otherwise, he would be the first to have such misfortune, after Republican President George W. Bush, who won the 1992 election.
The uncertainty may linger for weeks before the Electoral College meeting on December 14. Counting of votes by mail will continue and disputes will be resolved in court. However, the winner of the election will be sworn in as president on January 20.
Rumors surfaced in Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday that votes were no longer being counted as tensions mounted over the election results. About 200 Trump supporters gathered outside the election office with firearms. Republican supporters prevented at least 30 election officials in Detroit, Michigan from taking office amid rumors of vote rigging.
Police in Portland, Oregon, arrested 11 people with weapons in connection with the riots. Several were also arrested in New York, Denver, and Minneapolis.
In other cities, however, anti-Trump protesters have called for the vote counting to continue. Because Biden moves forward as the votes are counted.
As of Thursday morning, Biden was ahead of Trump by 3.7 million votes. However, the gap is very small in some states. Of the 3.3 million votes in Wisconsin, Biden received just 21,000 more votes than Trump. Of the 5 million votes in Georgia, Trump leads with 19,000 votes. The countdown still continues here.
Biden, 6, launched a website Wednesday to build a Democrat-controlled White House, predicting victory.
Meanwhile, Trump, 64, is conspiring to try to disrupt the voting process if he loses. On Tuesday, Election Day, he declared himself the winner. Without presenting any evidence against the Democrats, he accused them of stealing votes and threatened to go to court.
His supporters have filed a lawsuit in Supreme Court to stop the counting of late postal ballots in Pennsylvania. Republicans in Michigan and several other states have filed complaints about the vote count.
