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Friday, November 13, 2020
It took more than a week, but now US broadcasters are also announcing the winners in the remaining two states of Georgia and North Carolina. Irony of the story: Challenger Biden has as many votes from electoral voters as the current Trump four years ago.
Ten days after the presidential elections, according to the US media, the results are known in all 50 states. Consequently, Democratic challenger Joe Biden wins the race in the last still-open state of Georgia. President Donald Trump, in turn, secured victory in North Carolina. This is reported by television stations NBC and CNN. In Georgia they are counted again by the tight result. However, experts do not assume that there will be major changes here.
This means that all electoral votes are distributed: 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, which then elects the president in December. Biden has 306 votes, Trump 232. An electoral victory requires at least 270 votes. Biden had already cleared this hurdle last Saturday.
In the national electoral vote, Biden is more than five million ahead of Trump: the Democrat obtained almost 78 million votes (50.8 percent), the Republican 72.7 million (47.5 percent).
Distribution of votes as in 2016
In the 2016 presidential election, Trump won with 306 votes against Democrat Hillary Clinton, who obtained 232 votes. In the so-called Electoral College, Trump received only 304 votes. Apparently, two voters had reservations about Republicans. Trump had spoken of a landslide victory at the time, even though he had fewer votes than Clinton nationwide.
So far, Trump has refused to admit defeat and is posing as the victim of massive electoral fraud. Trump’s lawyers have filed lawsuits in several states but have not provided any evidence of large-scale electoral fraud or errors. Several US officials announced Thursday that the November 3 elections were the safest in US history.
In the United States, it is common for presidential elections to be decided on the basis of the forecasts of the mainstream media, usually on election night. Official results sometimes come much later. Due to the corona pandemic, millions of Americans had voted by letter this year, so the vote count took longer.
