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On the fourth day after the elections in the United States, the count continues and until the early hours of Saturday there were still not enough votes to recognize the victory of Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Joe Biden.
Biden has more popular votes, but in the American system that is not what decides who will be president. One of the candidates must win a majority (270 out of 538) in the electoral college, a system in which each state has a number of seats (related to the size of the population).
As of Saturday morning (07/11), Biden had already obtained 253 votes in the electoral college and Trump 214. And the focus is on four states capable of defining who will take over the White House: Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
Apart from them, Alaska and North Carolina, states in which President Donald Trump leads the polls, also did not reach a final result.
See the situation in each of these states:
Pennsylvania: Biden leads
Among the states with an indefinite result, Pennsylvania has the highest number of delegates to the electoral college – 20 votes. This means that if Biden wins in that state, he wins the electoral race, even though Trump managed to win in all the other states that still have no results.
Earlier on Saturday, Biden had 3,336,887 votes (49.6% of the total) and Trump, 3,308,054 (49.1%).
For Trump, the path to reaching 270 votes in the electoral college necessarily passes through victory in Pennsylvania. Without Pennsylvania, without even winning all the other states with a definitive result, he could reach that number of delegates.
Georgia: Biden leads
In the early hours of Saturday, the highlight was the widening of the vote gap between the two candidates in Georgia. Biden almost doubled his distance from Trump: the Democrat took the lead by more than 4,000 votes and extended that distance to more than 7,000 in the state, which has a tradition of electing Republicans.
This Saturday morning, Biden had 2,461,455 votes (49.4%) and Trump, 2,454,207 (49.3%). The state has 16 delegates to the electoral college. If Biden’s victory in the state is confirmed, he would reach 269 delegates in the electoral college, one less than needed for the election, and he would still need victory in some other state to consolidate victory.
Nevada: Biden leads
State with 6 votes in the electoral college, Nevada has also registered more votes for the Democratic Party. This Saturday morning, Biden had 632,558 votes (49.8%) and Trump, 609,901 (48%).
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Arizona: Biden’s leader
Biden also has an advantage in Arizona, with 1,604,067 votes (49.6% of the total). This puts him ahead of Trump, who had 1,574,206 votes counted (48.7%) as of Saturday morning. The state has 11 votes in the electoral college.
Some vehicles say that Biden won in Arizona, but the BBC considers that the result is not yet defined.
North Carolina: Trump leads
In North Carolina, which has 15 delegates to the electoral college, President Donald Trump is ahead, with 2,732,818 votes (50% of the total). The Democrat has 2,656,303 (48.6%).
Alaska: Trump leader
Alaska with the least weight in the electoral college among those who are still undefined (3 delegates in the electoral college), Alaska has, as of Saturday morning, many more votes for Trump (108,231, which is equivalent to 62.9% ) than for Biden (56,849, or 33%).
These are the possible scenarios for the victory of Biden or Trump:
What Biden Said
“We will win this contest with an undoubted majority,” said the candidate. “We had 74 million votes. This is more than any presidential candidacy in the history of the United States has had.”
He celebrated the “rebuilding of the blue wall”, a reference to the conquest by his party, represented by this color, of the Midwest states that had achieved the victory of Republican Donald Trump in 2016.
At the same time, Biden delivered a conciliatory speech, calling on Americans to “leave anger and demonization behind.”
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What Trump said
A statement issued by Trump’s team accuses Democrats of resisting the “basic principle” that “all legal ballots should be counted and all illegal ballots should not be counted,” and says Trump “will follow this process in all respects. Of law”.
Trump has repeatedly suggested that counting mail-in votes that arrive after Election Day is “illegal.” But late ballots can be counted in about half of the US states, as long as they are postmarked by November 3 (Election Day). This includes Pennsylvania, Nevada, and North Carolina. And the deadlines for the arrival of a postal ballot vary from state to state.
Trump made several unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud, which were denied by local election officials.
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