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Monday, December 14, 2020
No deviations
Voters confirm Biden’s victory
It has been clear for weeks that Joe Biden won the presidential election against Donald Trump. Now he faces another major hurdle before moving into the White House. The handover of office can no longer be shaken, even if Trump still does not acknowledge the election result.
The votes of the electorate in almost all the states of the United States and the capital district of Washington have confirmed the victory of Democrat Joe Biden over current Donald Trump in the presidential elections. The California vote lifted Biden Monday night (local time) above the threshold of the 270 necessary votes. Biden wanted to speak after the electoral vote in all 50 states and the capital district.
The president is indirectly elected in the United States. The total of 538 electorates vote on behalf of the people. In the vast majority of states, the winner of the election gets all the votes of the local electorate. So far, there have been no surprises, all voters voted according to the results. The vote in Hawaii is still pending.
That 78-year-old Biden won the election has been clear since November 7, when the mainstream American media, as is customary in the United States, proclaimed him the winner. Based on certified state results, Biden was expected to get a total of 306 votes at the end of the electoral vote and the current Trump to receive 232 votes. The final overall results of the presidential election will be officially announced in Congress in Washington on January 6.
Biden is due to be sworn in on January 20 in Washington. On that day, Trump’s term ends automatically, even if he doesn’t admit defeat. Voting the electorate is a formality in normal election years because the losing candidate often admits defeat on election night. But Trump still claims that he actually won the election and is deprived of his victory by alleged massive fraud. Many Republicans, including their top party colleagues in the United States Congress, have yet to publicly recognize Biden as the winner of the election. With a wave of lawsuits, Trump and his allies tried to tilt the election result in favor of the incumbent. Neither he, nor his lawyers nor his followers have provided evidence to support his far-reaching allegations. More than 50 lawsuits have already failed.
On Friday, the Washington Supreme Court also dismissed a lawsuit aimed at overturning Biden’s victory in four states. Trump had declared over the weekend that he did not want to abandon the legal battle against his defeat just yet.
