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The candidate of the Democratic Party for the presidency of the United States, Joe Biden, woke up this Saturday in the leadership of Pennsylvania and Georgia, expanding his favoritism to assume the presidency of the United States. In the early hours of the morning, he made a statement in Wilmington, Delaware, where he lives, saying that he has no doubts that he will win this election and announcing that he has already started working on the first government measures.
If Biden’s victory is confirmed in Pennsylvania, where the counting continues and the votes yet to be counted are massively in favor of the Democratic Party, it will not need any other state to become 46.OR President of the United States.
According to current projections, the Democrat has 253 votes in the Electoral College, up from 214 for Trump. It takes 270 to win.
In Georgia, however, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said there would be a recount, given the virtual tie between the candidates, with just a 0.1% lead over Biden. The investigation is still pending in Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina. With the exception of the latter, Biden is a favorite to win at all others.
Faced with impending defeat, President Donald Trump reiterated that he will legally challenge the results in states where Biden’s victory is obtained by a small margin, despite the fact that he himself won in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in 2016 by a total margin of only 80 thousand votes.
The Republican campaign filed lawsuits Thursday to suspend the count in Michigan, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania, as well as a recount in Wisconsin, but two of its requests have already been rejected by the court. In the evening, another lawsuit was added, in Philadelphia, also defeated. In parallel, the Supreme Court has determined that Pennsylvania votes received after November 3 be counted separately. According to CNN, this should not be decisive in the result.
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All the results are, for the moment, based on projections from the main US media, since in the United States each state has its own electoral rules, there is no national body that centralizes the vote count.
Biden grows up in Georgia
In Georgia, where counting continues, Biden’s lead increased by 5,110,000 votes overnight, from 4,430 votes to 7,248 votes. In percentage terms, the Democrat has 49.4% and the Republican, 49.3%, with about 99% of the votes counted.
However, the state has already announced that it will do a recount, given the narrow margin. By local law, the process can be requested if the difference between candidates is equal to or less than 0.5%.
Pennsylvania stop
Counts in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the state’s largest cities, stopped Friday night, and the difference between Trump and Biden of 28,833 votes remained the same from the early hours of the morning. The votes will be counted again this morning.
The US broadcaster NBC announced that when Biden’s lead reaches 35,000 votes, it will declare him the winner in the state, which will give Biden enough votes to be elected president. So far, 96% of the votes have been cast. The result is expected to finally be known on Saturday.
Trump would have to beat Georgia and Pennsylvania and at least one of the states where the count is still pending: Arizona, North Carolina and Nevada, to have a chance of reaching the 270 electoral college votes needed for reelection. Of the five states, the president leads only in North Carolina.
Covid in the White House
Just before Biden’s speech, it was announced that Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and four other White House employees have the coronavirus.
Biden talks and talks about public policy
The Democratic candidate made a statement shortly after 1 a.m. on Saturday (Brazilian time), in which he said he was confident of victory and sought to focus on national challenges, such as Covid-19. He lamented that almost 240,000 Americans have already died in the pandemic, but said “many lives could be saved in the coming months.”
– We will win this dispute with a clear majority, with the support of the nation. We obtained more than 74 million votes, more than any presidential ticket won in the history of the United States.
Biden’s lead increases a bit more in Pennsylvania
Biden’s leadership in Pennsylvania increased to 28,833 votes, or 0.5 points. If the lead is greater than 0.5, there will be no count.
Biden is expected to make a statement later Friday night.
Georgia will have a runoff for two Senate seats
After no candidate reaches 50% of the vote, Georgia will cast two votes in January to define its two senators.
In one, Republican Senator David Perdue will try to keep his seat against Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff. In the other, an early election, Raphael Warnock will run against Senator Kelly Loeffler.
Democratic candidates traditionally have not performed well in the second rounds in the state.
Supreme Court orders Pennsylvania votes to be counted separately
The Supreme Court ruled that votes received in Pennsylvania after Nov. 3 are counted separately, based on an action by the Republican Party, CNN reported.
The Pennsylvania Secretary of State had already ordered that all ballots arriving between Wednesday, November 4 and Friday, November 6 be separated from those that arrived until Election Day, pending an ongoing dispute. , at the request of the Republican Party, to decide the validity of these votes.
The Supreme Court has determined that the order of separation of votes is carried out.
According to CNN, this number of votes is small and should not influence the final result.
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