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Donald Trump and Joe Biden are claiming progress in the US presidential election, although the end result is difficult to predict as both sides prepare for court battles.
Trump’s campaign challenges the results of the vote in Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
The BBC expects Biden to win, in Michigan. And the American media expected him to win in Wisconsin. So far no results have been obtained in Pennsylvania.
Biden’s capture of those three states would lead to victory.
The Democratic candidate declined to declare his victory, but said he was confident he was on his way to defeating Trump, his Republican rival.
Expectations for total turnout in Tuesday’s election indicate the figure is the highest in 120 years, at 66.9 percent, according to the US Election Commission.
Biden won the support of 70.5 million voters, the most a presidential candidate has ever won. Meanwhile, Trump received 67.2 million votes, four million more than in 2016.
The Corona epidemic dominated the bitter electoral race, with daily HIV infection cases reaching a new record high of 103,000, according to US statistics.
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“When the count is over, we believe we will be the winners,” Biden told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, on Wednesday afternoon.
“I will judge as American president. The presidency itself is not a partisan institution.”
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Biden and his deputy, Kamala Harris, launched a power transition website, saying their team “will continue to prepare at full speed so that the Biden-Harris administration can get down to business from day one.”
Biden also said he had a “good feeling” about Pennsylvania, although President Trump’s campaign said he was “declaring victory” in the state after “all legal ballots” are counted.
“By the end of this week, it will be clear to the entire nation that President Trump and Vice President Pence will be elected for another four years,” said Jason Miller, Trump’s top campaign aide.
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Biden has so far 243 votes out of the electoral college votes, giving him an advantage in the race for the 270 votes needed to win the White House. As for Trump, he has 214 votes.
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Voters vote in US elections at the state level, not at the national level. Each American state has a certain number of votes in the electoral college, depending on its population, and the total number of votes in the United States electoral college is 538 votes.
If Trump loses Wisconsin (which has 10 votes in the electoral college), he must win Georgia (and the electoral college votes 16), North Carolina (15), Pennsylvania (20) or Arizona (11) or Nevada (6) Until victory is achieved.
Georgia officials said they would continue to work through the night until the vote count was over, but said at midnight local time that there were still about 90,000 votes awaiting counting. President Trump was at the time ahead of 31,000 votes.
In Arizona, Biden leads by nearly 80,000 votes, with more results expected Thursday. CBS said this is a “likely” victory for Democrats.
Trump supporters gathered outside the vote-tallying center in Maricopa County (which includes Phoenix, Arizona’s largest city), as officials vowed to “keep working.”
In Nevada, the number is not expected to update before 9:00 a.m. local time Thursday. As for Philadelphia, the screening is not expected to end for several days.
WhatThis about Legal challenges?
The Trump campaign said the president would formally request a recount in Wisconsin, citing “irregularities in various counties in Wisconsin.”
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Incomplete results indicate that the margin between Trump and Biden in Wisconsin is less than one percentage point, allowing a candidate to request a recount.
The campaign filed a lawsuit in Michigan to stop counting there, claiming it was prevented from monitoring the opening of the polls and counting votes “seriously.”
Police were called in Detroit, Michigan, Wednesday afternoon to guard the gates of a vote counting facility as some outside protesters demanded that they be allowed to monitor the process. And there were already about 200 people watching the vote inside the building, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Officials were seen covering the windows of the center as the mail-in ballots were sorted and counted.
The Trump campaign has also filed two lawsuits in Pennsylvania to stop all vote counting “until there is meaningful transparency.”
The president has three points in the state, but several thousand votes remain to be counted.
Trump is also suing Georgia for stopping vote counting there. His campaign said a Republican observer in the southern state witnessed the illegal addition of 53 late absentee ballots to a pile of ballots in Chatham County.
In 2016, Trump’s victories in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania confirmed his victory and his arrival in the White House.
In the early hours of Wednesday, the president claimed that he had won the election, although many votes remained unresolved. His speech drew strong criticism from both Democrats and Republicans.
Trump has said he is ready to take the election issue to the Supreme Court and that his campaign is asking Republican donors to help fund legal appeals. Challenges like this start at the state level, but can eventually make it to the United States Supreme Court.
“The battle is not over,” said Rona McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee. “We are still in it.”
Biden’s election MP Kamala Harris wrote a tweet asking her supporters to contribute $ 5 each to help pay for litigation costs that “could last weeks.”
Bob Bauer, Biden’s top legal adviser, said there was no reason for Trump to invalidate the legal ballot.
