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US President Donald Trump has again called for an end to the vote count, the Associated Press reported.
The unusual statement by the current president of the United States in support of stopping the counting of legally cast votes was made in a post on Twitter this morning, which only read: “Stop counting!”
Elections are organized by individual state, county, and local governments. Trump’s public statements have no effect on the country’s vote count.
So far, the nationwide vote counting has been conducted effectively and without evidence of any crime, despite Trump’s public outcry, the Associated Press reported.
The president made the statement at a time when his campaign has filed lawsuits in several states to try to stop the vote count due to lack of transparency. Still, the Trump campaign was hopeful that continuing the vote count in Arizona could lead to surpassing Biden’s leadership in the state.
After his first post on Twitter today, the president re-posted a second, which reads as follows: “All votes received after the end of election day will not be counted,” the DPA reported.
Twitter later marked the president’s second post as controversial and possibly misleading, Reuters reported.
The Trump campaign announced that it intends to challenge in court alleged voting violations in the state of Nevada (by giving 6 votes in the Electoral College), Fox News TV reported, quoted by TASS.
According to the television channel Richard Grenell, former acting director of National Intelligence of the United States and now part of the Trump campaign, intends to announce a lawsuit in that state at a press conference in Las Vegas (Nevada). Fox News notes that according to the Republican campaign in Nevada, at least 10,000 people who no longer live there voted.
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Joe Biden managed to overcome the initial difference and won the race held in Michigan and Wisconsin. According to the Associated Press, Biden also won in Arizona. If his victory there is deemed certain, Biden already has 264 of the 270 votes he needs. Which means that only victory in another state separates him from the presidency, reports Deutsche Welle.
Waiting for the final result
In Nevada, North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania, the vote count is not yet complete. In both Georgia and Pennsylvania, Trump led convincingly, but Biden closed the gap Thursday night. At the same time, Trump, who was quick to announce Wednesday that he had won the election, is contesting the results in several states and is already taking legal action.
Meanwhile, it became clear that after counting 96% of the votes in Georgia, there is a minimal advantage for Donald Trump: he got 49.6% and Biden, 49.2%. Pennsylvania reported that after counting 89% of the votes, Trump received 50.5% to Biden’s 48.2%.
Previously, Donald Trump won votes in Kentucky, Kansas, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Wyoming, West Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Obra, Iowa, Montana, Indiana . Joe Biden is prevalent in Colorado, New Mexico, Vermont, Virginia, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois, Delaware, Connecticut, Minnesota, Hawaii, District of Columbia, New Hampshire, New Hampshire. .
The path of the two candidates
In 2016, Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States. Born in 1946 in New York, he inherited a multi-million dollar business from his father, Frederick Trump. Trump is becoming a popular figure in the United States due to his investments and involvement in various television formats. In 2016, he surprisingly won the Republican Party presidential nomination, then prevailed against Hillary Clinton and was elected president of the United States, although he received almost 3 million fewer votes than his rival.
Joe Biden is the vice president of the United States during the two terms of Barack Obama (2008-2016). Biden was born in 1942 to a Catholic family in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has been a senator from Delaware for 36 years. Biden ran twice for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, in 1988 and 2008. In 2008, he lost the nomination to Illinois Senator Barack Obama. Later, Obama appointed Biden as his vice president.
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