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The vote differences between the president of the United States, Donald trump, and his Democratic rival, Joe biden, continue to be minimal in some of the key states that remain to be decided and that could tip the balance to one side or the other.
Attention is focused on the counting of votes in Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia, Meanwhile in Arizona, a state in which projections from some of the mainstream media had given Biden the victory, the distances between the two have shortened.
Many of these votes pending to be counted correspond to voting by mail, which due to the coronavirus pandemic was an option that 65 million people resorted to to avoid the agglomerations of the queues at the polling stations.
Biden already has 264 delegates in the Electoral College, and he is one step away from achieving the 270 delegates who would give him the keys to the White House, compared to the 214 that Trump accumulates.
The other state that is not yet adjudicated is Alaska, which has three electoral votes, where the scrutiny has been very slow (just 56 percent), but where Trump’s victory is taken for granted, which leads his opponent with the 62.9 percent of the vote.
In Arizona the difference in favor of Biden is now slightly less than 70,000 votes, but the advantage has been closing as the scrutiny has advanced, while Trump continues to defend that he has won in this state that grants 11 electoral votes.
Another state in which the differences have been shortened is Georgia, an important square because it supposes 16 electoral votes, where Trump’s lead over Biden, with 95 percent of the vote, is just about 23,000 votes.
24 hours ago, Trump’s advantage was about 100,000 votes.
[Fotos] The slow count in Georgia, the third state sued by Trump to re-tally the votes #CooperativeInHome https://t.co/jJQNEWyzHP pic.twitter.com/dhQOuxOwv6
– Cooperativa (@Cooperativa) November 5, 2020
In Pennsylvania, that with 89 percent of the count completed and twenty electoral votes at stake, the Trump’s lead is 164,000 votes, but the count of pending mail ballots is expected to favor the Democratic candidate.
The president was victorious in this state in 2016 by a difference of just 40,000 votes over his Democratic opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In North Carolina, with 15 delegates at stake, Trump leads his rival by about 77,000 votes (50.1-48.7 percent), when the count is already 95 percent complete, but the gap is still too narrow to give you a winner.
In this state, votes by mail whose postmarks show that they were deposited on time, may be counted until the 12th, due to the delays that the postal service has experienced.
Finally, in Nevada the count leans towards Biden by a difference of only about 8,000 votes.
A victory in this state, if the projections that gave the Democratic candidate victory in Arizona are confirmed, could be enough to give him the presidency, since with his six electoral votes he would reach the magic number of 270 delegates.
However, Trump has started his legal machinery and, in addition to asking for a recount of the votes in Wisconsin, a state that has earned Biden 10 electoral votes, according to media projections, his lawyers have filed lawsuits in Michigan and Pennsylvania to stop the scrutiny.
The request for a recount in Wisconsin is due to the fact that Biden’s advantage of 20,000 votes is only six tenths of a percentage point (49.4-48.9 percent).
While the request to suspend the counting in Michigan and Pennsylvania was due, according to Trump’s team, to the fact that his observers have not had access due to the place where the count is being carried out.
In Pennsylvania, in addition, the president’s campaign has joined a lawsuit that seeks to have the Supreme Court stop the counting of certain votes, and has filed another lawsuit to limit the time allowed to those who vote for the first time to confirm that they have the right to vote. identification required.
Meanwhile, in the street, a movement called “Every vote counts” has been gaining strength, aimed at pressing for all mail-in ballots to be taken into account, given Trump’s attempts to challenge those that have arrived after Election Day. , although they were issued on time, and against their attributions of victory despite not having finished the count.
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