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Donald Trump continues to fight his defeat. Now the majority of the country’s electorate has cast their votes for Joe Biden. Do major Republicans finally acknowledge Biden’s victory?
Less than six weeks after the US presidential election, the electorate in the states confirmed Joe Biden’s victory over incumbent Donald Trump. Democrat Biden asked Republican Trump on Monday night (local time) to admit defeat. The president-elect noted that he had received 306 of 538 electoral votes, as many as Trump four years ago when he had spoken of a “landslide victory.” “By their own standards, those numbers represented a clear victory back then, and I respectfully suggest they do so now,” said Biden, speaking in Wilmington, Delaware.
In all 50 states and the capital district of Washington, 538 voters cast their votes for the future president on behalf of the people on Monday. This is indirectly chosen in the US In the vast majority of states, the candidate who received the most votes from the people on Election Day also gets all the votes of the electorate there. Biden obtained the expected 306 votes after the election results of November 3, Trump obtained 232. The threshold for a victory is 270.
A Trump ally takes down
During the ongoing election vote, Trump announced on Twitter that Attorney General William Barr resigned. The resignation letter released by Trump said Barr will step down on December 23. Trump criticized Barr after he said he had no evidence of massive voter fraud. In doing so, he had openly contradicted Trump’s claims. Barr was previously considered a close ally of the president.
Last Saturday, Trump again criticized Barr. The Wall Street Journal reported that the attorney general had been aware of an investigation into the son of US President-elect Biden, Hunter Biden, since the spring. Barr wanted to keep the investigation out of the election campaign, the newspaper said. “A huge disappointment!” Trump wrote.
Trump’s failed lawsuits against Biden’s victory
Trump is deprived of his victory by fraud and continues to claim without any basis that he won the election against Biden (78). Neither he nor his lawyers or supporters have provided solid evidence of tampering. So far, more than 50 lawsuits from the Trump camp have been dismissed, two of them before the Supreme Court, the highest court in the United States.
Final election results will be officially announced in Congress in Washington on January 6. Biden is due to be sworn in on January 20. On that day, Trump’s constitutional term ends automatically, even if he does not admit defeat. That Biden won has been clear since November 7, when the main US media, as is customary in the United States, proclaimed him the winner. The responsible US authorities declared the election the safest in the United States. Trump has announced that he will continue his legal battle. You are not given opportunities.
Biden talks about a victory for democracy
Biden said Monday that it was time to start a new chapter. Trump had all avenues open to challenge the result, and the president seized every opportunity. More than 80 judges across the country heard arguments and dismissed them as unfounded. The renewed vote count would not have changed the outcome. “In this fight for the soul of America, democracy won,” Biden said. “The flame of democracy was lit in this nation long ago. And now we know that nothing, not even a pandemic or abuse of power, can extinguish that flame.”
Do major Republicans now recognize Biden’s victory?
Voting the electorate is a formality in normal election years because the losing candidate often admits defeat on election night. Many Republicans, including their top party colleagues in the United States Congress, have yet to publicly recognize Biden as the winner of the election. After the electoral vote, this front could now crumble.
Republican Senator Roy Blunt told The Kansas City Star that as chair of the congressional committee for the inauguration of the new president, he would now work with Biden’s team. He appointed Biden as president-elect.
“At some point you have to face the truth,” said Senator John Thune of South Dakota. “With the Electoral College fixing things today, it will be time to look to the future.”
