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The historic vote between Donald Trump and Joe Biden came to an end on Tuesday. The votes have already started to be counted and you can follow the result in the Electoral College, where the result is defined. To be elected, the candidate must obtain 270 of the 538 votes of the Electoral College. All results are, for now, based on projections from the main US media.
Americans go to the polls
What you need to know about the US elections:
Trump wins Indiana and Kentucky, Biden travels to Virginia
President Trump won the election in Indiana, according to mainstream media projections, and also in Kentucky and West Virginia. All three states are considered safe Republican strongholds: the first has 11 votes in the Electoral College and the second with 8, while West Virginia grants 5 votes in the Electoral College.
Biden, for his part, also won victories in the Democratic strongholds: Virginia, with 13 votes in the Electoral College, and Vermont, with 3 votes, according to US press projections.
Trump na Florida
The New York Times model currently predicts that Donald Trump is 95% more likely to win in Florida. According to the editor of the Washington branch of the LA Times, David Lauter, the main effect of this is that the result should take time.
“If Trump takes Florida, and it now looks like he probably will because of the Miami-Dade vote, the main shock is that we won’t know the outcome of the election too soon. This is a mandatory victory state for Trump, not for Biden, ”he wrote on a social network.
The state is one of the great prizes of the night, with 29 votes in the Electoral College.
Barroso of the Supreme Court reports polarization climate similar to that of Brazil
Invited observer of the elections in the United States, Minister Luis Roberto Barroso, of the Supreme Court, visited three polling stations in Maryland and another in the capital on Tuesday. In a post on a social network, Barroso claimed to have witnessed a “climate of polarization” that he compared to Brazil.
Trump wins in South Carolina
The Associated Press also projects that Trump won in South Carolina, which has 9 delegates to the Electoral College. The state is also considered a safe Republican stronghold, but it has a large number of black voters. The race for the Senate is also close.
Biden wins in Massachusetts and Delaware
CNN projections point to Biden’s victory in historically democratic areas, like Massachusetts, with 11 votes in the Electoral College. The Associated Press gives the Democratic victory also in Illinois, with 20 votes in Electoral College, Maryland, with 10 votes, New Jersey, with 14, Connecticut, with 7, Rhode Island, with 4, and in his state of residence, Delaware, which gives 3 votes.
Joe Biden also won in Washington DC, according to CNN projections. The American capital is considered the main democratic bastion of the United States and will add 3 delegates.
Trump takes the southern states
American press projections show that the Republican confirmed favoritism in Oklahoma, which has 7 votes in Electoral College, Mississippi, with 6, Alabama, with 9 and Tennessee, with 11. It even took Kentucky, which gives the winner 8 votes . in the Electoral College.
Latino vote in Florida
The Joseph R. Biden Jr. campaign never expected Miami-Dade County, Florida to do as well as Hillary Clinton, who conquered the county by roughly 30 percentage points in 2016.
But Democrats certainly weren’t expecting initial results, with Biden ahead of President Trump by just 9 percentage points, an incredibly narrow margin for a Democrat in the liberal county.
Miami-Dade is Florida’s most populous county, and the initial favorable outcome for Trump may be insurmountable for Biden, even if he fares better in the rest of the state, as initial results suggest. The huge Republican turnout in the county also fuels two opponents in Congressional Districts 26 and 27, which passed to the Democrats in 2016.
If he takes Florida, one of the most important states in this election, which has 29 votes in the Electoral College, Donald Trump will see his policy for Cuba and Venezuela rewarded.
QAnon follower chooses in Georgia
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a fan of QAnon’s conspiracy theory, was elected to a seat in the US House of Representatives. She ran in Georgia, in a strongly conservative district, and was already a favorite for the election after defeating a Republican contender in the June primaries.
QAnon is a conspiracy theory that believes, without any foundation in reality, that Donald Trump is fighting a Satanist pedophile conspiracy. The group was identified as a terrorist threat by the FBI.
– Q is a patriot. He is someone who loves his country very much, is on the same page as us and is very pro-Trump, he said in a YouTube video from 2017. – I am very excited that now there is a once in a lifetime opportunity to end this global conspiracy of Satan-worshiping pedophiles, and I think we have the president to do that.
Several conspiracy theorists are running for Congress this year.