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Donald Trump affirmed this Wednesday at dawn that he won the presidential elections in the United States despite the fact that the counting of the votes continues in several key states, in a very close electoral battle with his Democratic rival, Joe Biden.
In elections marked by polarization, the pandemic and a historic economic crisis, the Republican president he was declared the winner and reported fraud without presenting evidence.
When everything indicated that Biden was going to take Arizona from the Republicans, a first setback for the president, he announced that he was going to go to the Supreme Court of Justice, apparently to ask him to stop the counting of votes sent by mail.
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“We won this election,” the president said in a speech at the White House. “This is a fraud of the American public … We want the voting to stop,” he said.
Biden’s campaign rejected Trump’s remarks as “outrageous” and “unprecedented,” and the Democrat’s legal team said it was “ready to act” if the president tries to stop the recount. The voting offices have already closed, although they will continue to count votes sent by mail until Tuesday the 3rd, as allowed by law and as has happened countless times in past elections.
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Trump also accused Biden of trying to “steal” the vote, in a tweet that was immediately labeled “misleading” by Twitter.
Earlier, from his fiefdom in Wilmington, Delaware, Biden declared that he was “on his way” to victory, and asked the population for patience. “Keep the faith, we will win!” promised the former vice president of Barack Obama in front of supporters gathered in their cars. “This is not over until every vote is counted,” he added.
(In other news: Trump accuses Democrats of ‘trying to steal’ elections).
According to mainstream media projections, Trump was left with Florida and Iowa, where he won in 2016; with Ohio, in which all the candidates who reached the White House have won since 1964; and with Texas, a Republican stronghold since 1976.
Like Hillary Clinton four years ago, Biden may win the popular vote and lose the White House if you do not get the necessary 270 electoral votes, out of a total of 538 who make up the Electoral College according to the indirect universal suffrage system. So far, Biden had 238 electoral votes with Arizona, compared to 213 for Trump.
(Keep reading: How does the controversial Electoral College work in the United States?).
Everything indicates that the result will be subject to the states of the Midwest. “Key hinge states such as Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan have votes that will not be counted until tomorrow (Wednesday) at the earliest. And there are also delays in Georgia,” tweeted the specialized site FiveThirtyEight.
AFP
