2020 US elections live: Biden asks for patience and is confident of victory

Facebook has banned a group of Trump supporters – because he called for protests against a new vote count. The group “Stop the Steal” (“Stop the (electoral) theft”) have sought the “delegitimization of the electoral process,” announced the US Internet company. Some of its members would have “worrying calls for violence“In line with the extraordinary measures that Facebook is taking at a time of” high tension “, the group, which had been joined by more than 300,000 users, was eliminated. Trump has accused Democrats of “stealing” the victory since election night..

In the important state of Pennsylvania, Joe Biden continues to catch up. According to data provider “Decision Desk HQ,” Donald Trump has 50.1 percent after counting 92 percent of the votes, and Biden has 48.6 percent.
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The US elections are viewed with enthusiasm around the world. So also of the Climate activist Greta Thunberg, Trump’s call to stop the count “ridiculous“think”. Donald should work on his aggression management and then go to the movies with a friend in an old-fashioned nice way, “Thunberg wrote on Twitter, alluding to an old quote from the president.
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Zum Trump-Team update: In Pennsylvania, the Trump campaign is suing the Philadelphia County Elections Authority over a court order to block ballot counting, unless Republican observers are present.

Vice President Joe Biden addressed the Americans in Wilmington, Delaware with a short statement: and asked him to “keep calm and be patient”. Quite the opposite of Donald Trump, that every hour on Twitter demands that the vote counting be stopped immediately. Democracy is chaotic at times and needs patience, Biden said. “Because every vote has to be counted.”
The Democrat stated that he and Kamala Harris have no doubt that they will both be declared winners:

Please keep calm. We will all know soon.

In the middle again the Chancellor Heiko Maas, showing a bit of black humor, had to pass the US elections in quarantine on suspicion of crown. It was a “silly moment,” especially for a foreign politician, he said on ARD. But: “Let’s see which ends first: my quarantine or the count in the United States.”

In view of Biden’s leadership, it shows Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, positive. According to CNN and the Washington Post, Pelosi earned a “great victory“spoken.

It was a life and death fight for our democracy. We didn’t win every fight, but we did win the war.

So far it does not appear that the Democrats can win the Senate on their own, but it is very likely that they will maintain their majority in the House of Representatives.

The American elections have long since turned into a snail race. He’s happy with all the hints that soon a result might be available somewhere. In georgia for example, where Joe Biden gets closer and closer to leader Donald Trump when he counts the votes. Now only 47,000 leftsays from the Peach States government. That should still be possible …
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According to NBC, Trump’s Defense Secretary Mark Esper is apparently preparing to resign.. While it is not uncommon for cabinet secretaries to prepare undated resignation letters during a presidential election, to allow the Commander-in-Chief to replace them for a second term. However, this process usually only takes place after the election. But, according to three defense officials, Esper prepared his letter because he himself believes he will have to leave the White House after the election.

That Despite all the unfounded accusations of fraud, the counting of votes cast legally continues., It seems a rare encounter with reality for the Trump family be be. The president’s son, Eric Trump, now describes the “fraud” he acknowledges in the recount as “unreal.” He accidentally added the hashtag #StopTheSteal to his tweet. Twitter has already marked the tweet as unassigned, like several tweets from Donald Trump before.
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Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas openly criticized US President Donald Trump for the first time for his efforts to stop the counting of votes after the US elections. “At a time when the electoral result was even better for Mr. Trump, then demanding that the count be finished does not fully correspond to the democratic culture that we know from the United States,” the SPD politician said in ARD. He called on all those involved to recognize the outcome of the elections. “It would be important that the result is accepted by everyone at some point. That corresponds to the democratic rules,” he said. “It’s easy to be a winner, but sometimes it’s hard to be a loser.”

The big question in Pennsylvania is how many more postal ballots are there? By Wednesday, about 10,000 were already at the polls, an Allegheny County official told CNN. Deadline is tomorrow.
In the decisive state, there is still a dispute about late tickets. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court previously ruled that ballots must be postmarked for Election Day and that they arrived on Friday. However, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar told CNN that they are unlikely to comment on the outcome in the state.

It remains an unsolved riddle: Why did Fox News and the AP news agency announce early on election night that Joe Biden Arizona had won? In fact, it is The race is not running there yet. With 86 percent of the vote counted, Joe Biden leads with a good two percentage points. This shows the advantage of a federal scrutineer as we know it. Has the official numbers in an election. This does not exist in the United States, which is why the media plays these excessive number games, especially in a situation like today. You have the forecasts and the numbers. AP is considered to be particularly reliable and accurate. As soon as AP announces the winner, the choice is really decided. On the Arizona case, editor-in-chief Sally Buzbee said only that Arizona will continue to be watched and analyzed. Y: “We will follow the facts in all cases.”

In the event that Donald Trump loses the election, his former chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is apparently already working on a plan B.: In a webinar for a group of political experts in Ireland, Mulvaney said:

I would absolutely hope that the president would stick with politics and would absolutely put him on the list of potential contenders for 2024.

Trump is a 74-year-old man with a lot of energy, said the US special envoy for Northern Ireland. Even in 2028, Mulvaney appoints Trump for another political commitment: he would then be 82 years old. Jim Acosta, CNN journalist He reported on Twitter that Trump had already thought about running again with advisers.
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In Georgia The manager of the electoral system, Gabriel Sterling, announces that only 48,000 votes must be counted. But, “It takes time,” Sterling said. “And we want to do everything right.” One of the reasons for the long waiting times is technical upload errors, which have now been fixed. Sterling promised that all votes would be counted correctly.