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Two days after the US presidential election, the winner cannot be announced due to ongoing vote counting in various states, which will decide the outcome of the dramatic showdown between Democratic candidate Joe Biden and current President Donald Trump.
With victories in the faltering states of Wisconsin and Michigan, Biden is currently close to winning 270 votes in the Electoral College to send him to the White House.
Trump, who was quick to declare himself the winner on election night for no reason, nervously announced Wednesday that he would attack the results in court and ask for a new census, as there was electoral fraud.
The headquarters of both presidential candidates gathered armies of lawyers for a possible court battle.
The outcome of the elections depends on the results in five states. Biden has a slight lead in Nevada and Arizona, while Trump’s lead in Pennsylvania and Georgia, which are crucial to his re-election, begins to melt as the mail count counts and abstention is abstained.
Trump is also confident in his slight dominance in North Carolina, another state he must win to reach 270 votes in the Electoral College.
As is known, to win the elections, one of the two candidates must collect at least 270 votes in the Electoral College cast by the individual states in proportion to their population.
It is unclear whether any of the legal maneuvers undertaken by Trump’s headquarters regarding the vote will lead to a reversal of the result in his favor, the AP notes.
Biden has already reached 264 votes in the Electoral College, which means that only winning a faltering state separates him from victory, according to the AP, which adds 11 from Arizona to the votes obtained by the Democratic candidate. There he leads with about 70,000 votes.
The situation is much more complicated for Trump, who currently has 214 electoral votes. To get to 270, you must win all the other doubtful states: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, and Nevada.
Joe Biden leads Trump with nearly 120,000 votes in a near-complete recount in the key state of Michigan, Reuters reported. After counting 99% of the votes in the state, Biden received 50.3% of the votes and Trump, 48.1%. That difference is far greater than Trump’s lead in Michigan in 2016, when he won by just over 10,000 votes. With the 16 voters Michigan sends to the presidential board of elections, Biden now appears to have obtained 264 of the 270 votes needed.
However, Trump’s headquarters have filed complaints against the vote count in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson described the Trump team’s lawsuit as “frivolous” and emphasized that the counting of votes in the state was “efficient, transparent, safe and methodical.”
Trump and Biden supporters started protests
“Stop voting!” Chanted Trump supporters in Detroit. “Stop the robbery!” Chanted supporters of the incumbent president in Phoenix.
The demonstrations came after the Republican president said there were serious irregularities in voting and the counting of votes, although he did not give reasons for his statement.
At the same time, thousands of protesters against President Trump took to the streets in many cities in the United States to demand a full count of the ballots in the presidential elections, the outcome of which is still unclear. There were such demonstrations from New York to Seattle.
Despite accusations by Trump supporters of wrongdoing in Arizona, there are observers from the Democratic and Republican parties at the Phoenix ballot counting center, and the counting process is streamed live online, the Associated Press reported.
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