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Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Trump’s challenger, Biden, can rest assured that voters in two other states – Arizona and Wisconsin confirm Biden as the winner of the election. But things get even worse for the current Trump.
Arizona and Wisconsin, the most controversial US states, have officially confirmed the result of the presidential elections with the victory of Joe Biden. With this, incumbent Donald Trump suffered another setback in his attempts to reverse the outcome of the November 3 elections with legal attacks. Biden won in Arizona by almost 10,500 votes, in Wisconsin it was around 20,700 votes after a recount. Trump’s lawyers failed in court with lawsuits against the election results.
Trump still claims without proof that he lost the election only because of massive electoral fraud. Previously, important states like Georgia and Pennsylvania had already confirmed the result of the elections with the victory of Biden. In Iowa, however, Trump was officially declared the winner on Monday, as expected.
Republican majority in Senate dwindling
The results in the individual states are decisive in reaching the required number of 270 voters for the election of the president. In the United States, the president is not elected directly by the people, but by the electorate who must cast their vote according to the result in their state. According to US media estimates, Biden obtained 306 votes from the electorate in the November 3 election.
Confirming the election results in Arizona also has the side effect of reducing the majority of Trump’s Republicans in the Senate from 53 to 52 votes. Democrat Mark Kelly, who defeated Republican Senator Marthy McSally, is due to take office this week because it was a special vote. The remaining newly elected senators will not be sworn in until early 2021. Whether Democrats or Republicans will have a majority in the Senate will not be decided until two runoff elections in Georgia on January 5.
Among other things, the Senate votes candidates for positions in the central government. This could limit Biden’s freedom of action as president if Republicans retain control of the House of Congress.
