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Joe Biden is intensively preparing to take office in January. In a presidential tone, he calls on Americans to unity and Trump to acknowledge electoral defeat. But this again is between the two.
US President-elect Joe Biden has condemned attacks on the electoral process by outgoing incumbent Donald Trump. “Our democracy has been put to the test this year,” Biden said, speaking in his hometown of Wilmington. But the nation is up to the task. “In the United States, we have full and fair elections and then we acknowledge the results.”
Meanwhile, Trump reiterated his claim that he had won the election, despite several defeats in court. “The Democrats lost the election. They cheated,” the president-elect of the United States told a meeting of Republican state politicians in the key state of Pennsylvania. Trump, who was connected by phone, demanded that the election result be “annulled.” The election official for the key state in the eastern United States certified the election result on Tuesday. Consequently, Biden won here by more than 80,000 votes.
“Hearing” on alleged electoral fraud
Trump’s private attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and Republican senators from the Pennsylvania state parliament held a “hearing” in the city of Gettysburg on alleged electoral fraud. Giuliani leads the president’s largely unsuccessful court battle against the election result. In recent weeks he has made many disproved accusations of voter fraud in some strange appearances. Trump now complained: “All we need is a judge who really listens to us.”
According to US media reports, Trump was originally supposed to be personally present at Gettysburg. This was not officially announced. Eventually, he was connected to his attorney Jenna Ellis, who held her smartphone up to a microphone to amplify Trump’s voice.
Fight the “safest option in the history of the United States”
The president has refused to acknowledge his electoral defeat for weeks and speaks of alleged massive electoral fraud. Election officials, including those of Trump’s Republicans, firmly reject the fraud allegations, and officials even spoke of “the safest election in American history.”
Giuliani also announced hearings on alleged voter fraud in Arizona and Michigan, two states in which Biden had also won. The president’s refusal to acknowledge his electoral defeat has also come under increasing criticism from Republicans. Observers fear that Trump could permanently undermine confidence in the electoral system as a cornerstone of democracy.
The president of the United States is only indirectly elected by the people. The votes of the electors decide the composition of the electoral college that elects the president on December 14. The majority of the 538 electorate is necessary for a victory: Biden has so far had 306 electorates behind him. The transition process before the change of power in January has officially started.
