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Biden gave a speech after receiving confirmation.
The voting results of the American Electoral College confirmed that Joe Biden (Joe Biden) won the presidential election, which was one of the final steps before entering the White House.
Subsequently, Biden delivered a national speech, calling it the victory of “the will of the people.” In his speech, he said that American democracy has withstood tests and threats and has shown great resilience.
Under the current American electoral system, voters actually vote for “electors,” and then voters formally vote for the president of the United States after a few weeks. As a result, Biden ultimately won 306 electoral votes, while Republican candidate Trump won 232.
Although this process has been officially completed, it is expected that the current president Trump has not yet accepted the election results.
On Monday (December 14), Trump announced that Attorney General William Barr, who had previously claimed there was no evidence of election fraud, would be leaving office before Christmas.
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Trump said Barr will leave on December 23.
Voters have generally not been the center of attention in previous US elections, but this year Trump continued to question and attempt to overturn the election results, including a series of legal actions, but they were rejected by multiple courts across the country. , various states. Electoral votes became the focus.
California, which has long supported the Democratic Party, has 55 electoral votes. It is one of the last states to vote for voters on Monday local time, and it causes Biden’s votes to exceed the threshold of 270 electoral votes to win the presidential election.
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Before the vote, some states, including Michigan and Georgia, tightened security measures. Voting takes place in the state capitals and Washington, DC.
In Michigan, one of the key states Biden won, the legislature in Lansing, the state capital, closed due to a “credible” threat of violence.
Voting at the Capitol was completed peacefully and smoothly, but a group of Republicans tried to enter the building to vote on their own, but was blocked.
“The people have spoken. This is a safe, fair and secure election,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said. Earlier this year, the FBI spotted a plan to kidnap this Democrat.
“After today, this is the bottom line,” he said.
Who is the voter?
In the months leading up to Election Day, parties with presidential candidates will nominate or vote for their own constituents.
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The United States Constitution only states that voters cannot be members of Congress or others who serve in any office of the federal government. This year, the most famous voters are former President Bill Clinton (Bill Clinton) and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (Hillary Clinton), who were elected to the Democratic Electoral College of New York State.
Voters almost always vote for candidates supported by the results of the state’s public vote. However, in the 2016 general election, some voters did not, prompting some states to amend the law to try to prevent the same situation from happening again. Analysts say it is nearly impossible to topple Biden’s election victory.
The number of voters in each state is basically determined by the size of the state’s population.
Whats Next?
The results of the vote will be sent to Washington, DC, where they will be formally counted at a joint meeting of Congress chaired by current Vice President Mike Pence on January 6.
This will be one step before Joe Biden is sworn in as president on January 20.
Biden delivered a national address on Monday night (December 14).
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President-elect Biden attended a church event in Delaware on the 12th.
After the Electoral College vote was announced, Biden declared that the American democratic system has been “oppressed, tested and threatened,” but “proved tough, real, and powerful.”
“The flame of democracy was lit in this country a long time ago,” Biden said, “and we know that nothing, including a global pandemic or the abuse of power, can extinguish this flame.”
He also mentioned President Trump’s repeated attempts to question the election results, saying that now is “the time to turn this page, as we have done throughout history: to unite and heal the wounds.”
President Trump has yet to show a gesture of acceptance of the election results, nor has he commented on the Electoral College results and Biden’s speech.
After the election vote was confirmed, Trump announced on Twitter that Attorney General William Barr was leaving. The latter has stated that there is no extensive evidence of fraud in the current elections after the president repeatedly claimed that he would not recognize the election results.
Trump also criticized Barr for failing to announce the Justice Department investigation into Biden’s son Hunter Biden during the election.
Analysis: does Trump still have a chance?
BBC North America CorrespondentAnthony Zurcher
Voting for four years in the American Electoral College is usually just a routine before the president is sworn in, a political process that has long since lost real power and influence.
However, Donald Trump’s scorched earth policy to challenge the 2020 election results has brought this procedure to renewed attention.
His legal team has achieved very little results after challenging the results of multiple states on the battlefield, and the official record of the vote of the National Electoral College will formally end this long-running court dispute.
Of course, this does not mean that the Trump team will stop there. They are conducting another Electoral College vote, with another set of voting results to announce that the current president is the real winner. They will continue their futile court proceedings and will eventually require Congress to revoke the results of this election.
This is an alternate reality and it may make Trump supporters more comfortable than Joe Biden becoming president-elect.
Considering that the House of Representatives is already under Democratic control, the official Electoral College vote was confirmed on Monday, and federal law is also on Biden’s side. Trump’s chances of success in the real world will definitely be nil.
