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The tension in the race for the White House increases: After important victories in Michigan and Wisconsin, Joe Biden leads. In six states, however, the results are still pending. The current results.
Democrat Joe Biden will go down the stretch as the favorite, while in the United States the final votes will be counted in the presidential elections. After winning key states, the challenger appears to be only steps away from the White House. However, the current Donald Trump claimed victory and sent his lawyers with lawsuits in various states. Read more about it here.
Depending on the calculation, Biden is 6 or 17 votes short
Biden still lacks 17 votes, Trump 57. According to calculations by the AP news agency and the television channel Fox News, his victory in the state Arizona For sure, Biden now even has 264 of the 270 votes needed for a victory in the presidential election.. Consequently, former Vice President Barack Obama would only need to choose one state to win. However, according to Edison Research, Trump is catching up. After counting 86 percent of the votes, the incumbent president now comes to 48.1 percent and Biden to 50.5 percent. Previously it was 47.9 to 50.7 percent.
The race is also considered open in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada, and Alaska. In Nevada, which brings in six votes from voters, Biden was able to extend his lead over Trump. He is now one percentage point, or about 11,500 votes, ahead of Trump. Previously, the difference was only about 8,000 votes.
In North Carolina After counting 95 percent of the votes, Trump leads with 1.4 percentage points. In Alaska, just under half of all votes have been counted, but the state will most likely go to Trump.
Trump’s lead in Georgia and Pennsylvania is shrinking
In Georgia however, Biden almost caught up with Trump. The difference in the votes counted between the two candidates is only 13,540 votes, or 0.3 percentage points, as reported by “CNN.” There are 16 voters in the state.
Also in Pennsylvania Trump’s advantage is shrinking. After the votes cast on Election Day, most of which benefited Trump, were counted there, mail-in votes now follow. Democratic supporters were more inclined to send their votes by mail than Republicans amid the coronavirus pandemic. Biden currently has 48.5 percent, he still has a good 114,000 votes over Trump at 50.2 percent. Since there were delays in the US postal service, postal ballot papers must also be valid in Pennsylvania and arrive on Friday afternoon.
Therefore, it is foreseeable that some time will pass before there is clarity on the outcome of the elections.
These are the current results of the US presidential elections:
Biden: the result is clear
Biden saw himself facing Trump on Wednesday. “Now, after a long night of counting, it is clear that we are winning enough states to get the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency,” he said in Wilmington, Delaware.
According to matching media reports Biden won the disputed states of Michigan and Wisconsin against Trump. The Republican declared himself the winner early Wednesday’s election night and announced that he would take his claim to the United States Supreme Court.
Trump continues to oppose vote by mail
Since the election, Trump has posted several tweets against the vote count. His clue, which still existed Tuesday night, “magically disappeared” in one state after another, he wrote. You can read a fact check on your returns here.
Last night he was leading, often solidly, in many key states, in almost all cases controlled and controlled by the Democrats. Then one by one, they began to magically disappear as the surprise dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE, and the “pollsters” got it completely and historically wrong!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 4, 2020
Trump did significantly better in the election overall than expected according to polls. However, the three-year-old Biden missed the clear victory the Democrats had hoped for. Before the election, the statistics portal “FiveThirtyEight” had only calculated a probability of around ten percent that Trump would win.
Who is ahead in which states in the US?
In these US states, Trump is in the lead (number of voters per state in parentheses): Texas (38), Florida (29), Indiana (11), Iowa (6), South Carolina (9), Oklahoma (7), Alabama (9), Missouri (10), Arkansas (6), Ohio (18), West Virginia (5), Tennessee (11), Mississippi ( 6), Kentucky (8), Louisiana (8) Wyoming (3), North Dakota (3), South Dakota (3), Nebraska (4), Kansas (6), Utah (6), Idaho (4) and Montana (3).
Biden is leading the way in these states: New Mexiko (5), Hawaii (4), New York (29), California (55), Arizona (11), Washington (12), Minnesota (10), Maine (4), Oregon (7), Vermont (3), Delaware (3), Maryland (10), Virginia (13), Massachusetts (11), Connecticut (7), New Jersey (14), Illinois (20), Rhode Island (4), Missouri (10), New Hampshire ( 4), Nebraska (1), Colorado (9), Maine (3), Wisconsin (10), Michigan (16) and in der Bundeshauptstadt Washington DC (3).
In the United States, the president is not chosen directly by the people, but by 538 voters and constituencies. Each state has a certain number of them depending on the size of the population. The candidate with the most votes in the state basically registers the entire state electorate for himself. Exception: In Maine and Nebraska, electorate votes are divided by majorities in electoral districts. The overall state winner receives two more votes. In Maine, Trump won an additional voter and Biden won one in Nebraska.
Democrats or Republicans, who will get the majority in Congress?
On November 3, not only were the President of the United States elected, but also the entire House of Representatives and parts of the Senate. Democrats were able to defend their majority in the House of Representatives. So far they have held 232 of the 435 seats in the House of Congress, which was fully available to vote in the elections.
These are the current projections for the race for the House of Representatives:
The 435 members of the House of Representatives each represent an electoral district and are directly elected every two years. The survey shown reflects trends in constituencies.
Exciting Senate Fight: Who’s Ahead?
The Democrats’ hopes of gaining control in the Senate were severely dashed. Several Republican senators, who were considered unstable candidates, were able to defend their seats. The result is still open.
About a third of the Senate is reelected every two years. This third is highlighted in the graphic.
Here are the current projections:
The Senate is made up of 100 senators. Each state has two seats. In states that have a mandate to grant, it is decided by majority vote. The survey values shown reflect trends across the states.
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