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With almost half a million votes yet to be counted in the state of Arizona (USA), the president Donald trump trusts to give the “sorpasso” and surpass the democratic candidate Joe Biden, to which media such as the Associated Press (AP) and the Fox News television network declared the election night the winner.
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But the electoral thriller continues on the screens of United States. Arizona, an impregnable conservative fiefdom since the progressive Bill Clinton (1993-2001) won in 1996, may change its sign in the next few hours.
The task is difficult, but not impossible: Triumph it must be supported by just over 57% of the remaining votes statewide. There is hope in the White House.
All eyes on Maricopa County
Maricopa has become a trend on Twitter in several countries, including United States and Spain.
The reason that this county, whose capital is Phoenix, is on everyone’s lips is because there are still some 275,000 votes to be counted, according to the latest update from local authorities.
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And the results of the votes – in whole or in part – will be made public at 19:00 local time (4:00 GMT). That is if the followers of Triumph and far-right protesters let the professionals do their work, since during the day yesterday, Wednesday hundreds protested in front of the county offices shouting the following slogan: “Count my vote!”
Just the opposite of another group of followers of the current president in Michigan, who ask that the count be stopped, or that Trump himself, who this Thursday tweeted “stop counting.”
The reality is that the county of Maricopa it ranks fourth nationally in Hispanic population in relation to the total of its inhabitants.
The Pew Research Center estimates that about 1.4 million Latinos reside in that county.
A very tight race
In recent hours, Trump has cut Biden’s lead in Arizona. With 85% scrutinized, Triumph It has 1,400,951 votes, very close to the 1,469,341 it has harvested Biden.
The difference is so short that many media have not dared to determine who has won the elections in that key state. His 11 electoral votes can be decisive, pending what happens in other states such as Pennsylvania or Georgia.
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The objective is to reach 270 electoral votes and, the score at this time is the following: Trump 213 and Biden 264 with the votes of Arizona or 253 without them. Despite being approaching in number of votes, Triumph should get about 60% of the 470,000 votes left to count, according to the newspaper The Republic of Arizona. A very difficult feat, but not impossible.
However, in addition to the votes of the county of MaricopaThe counties of other traditionally very blue counties also remain to be counted, that is, those that vote Democratic: Pima, Coconino and Santa Cruz.
Controversy over possible votes not counted
But as if all this were not enough, the plot has more chapters. One of them is the lawsuits that several voters are beginning to present alleging that their vote has not been counted because they have filled in the box of their choice with a “sharpie”, a type of marker.
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The authority in charge assures that its use is totally legal to cast the vote, but certain images and videos that circulate on the networks show that allegedly some of those votes were considered null by some polling stations.
The suspense will go up to the validation or not of certain votes that, with so little difference between candidates, could become crucial. How the candidate repeats by active and passive Biden: “Every vote counts.”
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