WAS SHINGTON (AP) – Elect Oral Ralph College Ledge on Monday firmly confirmed B Biden as the nation’s next president, reaffirming November’s victory in the state-denied state that denied President Donald Trump’s defeat.
Presidential voters gave Biden a solid majority of Trump’s 232 to 306 votes, the biggest margin Trump gave when he won the White House four years ago was a landslide.
Security was heightened in some states as voters met to cast ballots on paper, which included masks, social distance and other epidemic precautions. The results will be sent to Washington and will be chaired by Vice President Mike Pence at a joint session of Congress on January 6.
For all unsubstantiated claims of Trump fraud, There was a bit of suspense and no change as every voter vote allotted to Biden and the President in last month’s popular vote officially went to every man. On election day, Democrats ranked the current Republicans more than a million in the nationwide popular vote.
California’s electoral 55 electoral votes put Biden at the top. Vermont was the first state to report, with votes cast. Hawala, with 4 votes, was last.
“Once again, the rule of law, our constitution, and the will of the people prevailed in America. Our democracy – pressure, test, threat – proved to be resilient, true and strong, “Biden said in his evening speech. In which he emphasized the size of his victory and the record 81 million people who voted for him.
He renewed his campaign promise for all Americans, whether they voted for him or not, and said the country is working hard on the virus and the economy.
But no waiver was granted from the White House, where Trump has continued to make unsubstantiated allegations of fraud.
According to White House and campaign aides, Trump and Washington stayed in the Oval Office in Washington after sunset, calling on allies and fellow Republicans, according to White House and campaign associates. The president often broke into a private dining room outside the Oval Office to watch TV and complained that cable networks treated him like a mini-election night, giving him no air time to challenge.
Stop rallies in the nation and G.O.P. The president was increasingly frustrated by the efforts of voters in the states to divide their slate field. Stephen Miller, one of his most outspoken advocates, led to a TV appearance early Monday because of the president’s intense desire to defend the election administration and suggested that Trump’s legal challenges would continue all the way to inauguration day. January 20.
At the end of the day, he announced on Twitter that Attorney General William Barr was leaving the administration before Christmas. Barr’s departure comes amid protracted tensions over Trump’s unsubstantiated fraud claims, especially since the election results were not affected by any fraud after Barr’s statement to the Associated Press earlier this month.
In an interview with Fox News over the weekend, Trump said, “I’m worried about being the illegitimate president of the country, that’s what I’m worried about. A president who lost and lost badly. ”
In Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on Monday – six battlefields said Biden won and Trump fought – voters cast their votes in Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in a low-key action. Nevada voters met by Zoom due to the coronavirus epidemic.
There have also been concerns about voter safety due to Trump’s efforts to undermine the election results, which have been virtually unheard of in previous years. In Michigan, legislators from both parties reported receiving threats, and legislators’ offices were closed over threats of violence. Biden won the state by 154,000 votes or 2.8 percentage points over Trump.
Georgia State Police were on duty at the Atlanta State Capitol before Democratic voters promised to meet Biden. No protesters appeared there.
Despite confirmation of Biden’s victory at the Electoral College College Ledge, some Republicans continued to refuse to accept that reality. However, his protest against Biden had no practical effect on the election process, with Democrats swearing in next month.
Republicans who would have been Trump’s voters had met in Baden’s handful of states anyway. Pennsylvania Republicans said they had given a “procedural vote” in the courts of the case for Trump and Pence, who repeatedly rejected challenges to Biden’s victory, still had to decide if Trump won.
In North Carolina, Utah and other states across the country where Trump won, his voters will vote for him properly. In North Carolina, voters checked the temperature before allowing access to the Capitol. Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes returned as a Trump voter and was in quarantine because he came into contact with someone with Covid-19.
Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whom Trump defeated four years ago, were among New York’s 29 voters for Biden and Harris.
In New Hampshire, before four state voters voted for Biden at Concord’s State House, 13-year-old Braden Harrington led the group in a pledge of allegiance. He gave a moving speech at the Democratic National Convention in August Gust about the struggle with the robbers who partnered with Bowden.
After weeks of Republican legal challenges, which were easily overturned by judges, Trump and Republican allies last week tried to persuade the Supreme Court to segregate 62૨ voters for Biden in four states, which may have cast doubt on the outcome.
The judges rejected the attempt On friday.
The Electoral College was the result of a compromise between those who favored electing the President by popular vote and those who opposed giving the people the right to choose their leader directly.
Each state gets the same number of voters as the total number of seats in Congress: in addition to the two senators, however, there are several members in the state House of Representatives. Washington Washington, DC has three votes, under constitutional amendment, ratified in 1961. With the exception of Maine and Nebraska, states have awarded all of their Electoral College College votes to the winner of their state’s popular vote.
Bargaining by the country’s founders produced five elections in which the president failed to win popular votes. Trump was the most recent example in 2016.
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The report was contributed by Associated Press writer Jonathan Lamire and AP writers from the United States.
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