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Some dance, some wield weapons
Biden supporters danced in the streets in front of a polling center in Philadelphia as the growing number of votes showed the former Democratic vice president could soon be declared the winner of the US presidential election.
In Detroit, several hundred supporters of President Donald Trump, some with their guns, chanted premature “We won!” outside of a tally center, although it seems increasingly unlikely, though not impossible, that this is true.
Philadelphia seemed to enjoy its turn as the center of the nation’s attention, even if it was won only by the relative slowness of its votes counting as the largest city in the state of Pennsylvania.
Biden has a 253-214 lead in the state-by-state Electoral College vote determining the winner, according to Edison Research. Winning Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes would give Biden the 270 he needs to secure the presidency. He has already won the popular vote by about 4 million votes.
Some, however, have taken to the streets, with Biden supporters encouraging poll workers to “count every vote,” sometimes breaking into a dance every time someone played a Beyoncé or Missy Elliott song on the speakers.
Some Trump supporters, following the president’s own lead, insisted that there must be something wrong with any tally that showed Biden winning, and they brought their rifles and pistols to rallies outside of counting centers in Detroit and Phoenix, Arizona.
Dressed in the Trump supporter uniform of red “Make America Great Again” baseball caps, some fell to their knees in public prayer.
Most of the demonstrations have been peaceful and relatively small, although tensions have occasionally erupted. Overnight in New York City, police pushed protesters, journalists and at least one elected official as they made arrests and tried to get anti-Trump demonstrations off the roads.
In Detroit, anti-racism protesters rallying behind the slogan Black Lives Matter entered an area cordoned off by police for Trump supporters on Friday. Standing defiantly with fists in the air, Trump supporters, including armed members of the militia groups, approached, taunting, before police intervened, driving the anti-racism protesters elsewhere.
Some pro-Biden observers gathered outside the police cordon. One waved a sign that read, “Land to losers, go home!”
In Arizona, another hotly contested state, a growing crowd of several hundred Trump supporters returned to the counting center in Phoenix from around Maricopa County, where some 142,000 ballots remained to be counted as of Friday morning. anticipated.
