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

In Pennsylvania, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar assured voters that their votes would be counted and that election officials “take them very seriously.” Boockvar said all ballots will be counted until Friday. “They are professionals,” Boockvar said of the election officials.

It looks like there is really going to be a huge turnout and any voting method is incredibly safe.

Unexpected effect of the Donald Trump threatwanting to take action against the counting of all votes: Everywhere he takes his time to rule out all errors as much as possible, to count all legally cast votes, and to finish his own work correctly. But it also means that long-awaited results are yet to come. Pennsylvania’s Top Election Guard Kathy Boockvar Doesn’t Want to Get More Engagedwhen a reliable result is available for the decisive states of oscillation. We already talked about Arizona …

In Arizona, the vote count is expected to last until the weekend. Currently I still need around 450,000 votes Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, in charge of organizing the elections, told CNN. The majority of the votes, about 300,000, are still pending in the Maricopa district, which includes the capital Phoenix. The next status of the count will be announced Thursday night (3:00 am CET on Friday), Hobbs said. According to the secretary of state, “most districts” should finish the count “by the weekend.”

Brief inventory: Donald Trump now has a much worse chance of winning the election than his rival.. So he must win to get to Pennsylvania in outstanding results exceed the magic number of at least 270 voters. It’s not enough without Pennsylvania, even if it won every other state. Joe Biden, on the other hand, doesn’t even have to win in Pennsylvania or Georgia anymore, as long as he leads Nevada and Arizona where he leads. With the votes of these two states, Biden would have reached exactly 270. Hence Biden’s confidence, also fueled by catching up in Georgia and Pennsylvania. But Trump can still win.

New Mexico Makes History in Congressional Elections: The state has elected three women to the House of Representatives for the first time. Deb Haaland, one of the first Native American women in Congress, was reelected for a second term. Yvette Herell, a member of the Cherokee tribe, won her race for the second district and Teresa Leger Fernandez won the third district. Leger Fernandez is the first woman to occupy his seat since its inception in 1983.
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And Trump’s edge is melting in Georgia too – more votes are counted. Currently, the two candidates are only separated by 9500 votes.
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Thomas Gottschalk’s Commentary on the American Elections about “Maybrit Illner” on ZDF:

Biden is a kind old man, but if he and Trump are going to be at the forefront of American politics, it’s a good night.

Facebook has banned a group of Trump supporters – because he called for protests against a new recount of the votes. 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 93 percent of the votes, and Biden has 48.7 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 vote 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 doesn’t seem like Democrats can win the Senate on their own, but they are very likely to keep 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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