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“We don’t wait to get the job done,” Joe Biden said that night in Wilmington, Delaware. He stood alongside Kamala Harris, who will become his vice president, and was unable to announce a victory on the third day after the US elections. Again he urged calm and patience, again he showed himself as a statesman and emphasized that he was already working to combat the Corona crisis. Americans have to let go of anger and mutual demonization, Biden said. He described the more than 74 million votes he has received thus far as a clear mission.
Nor was it possible anymore this Friday night, because the final results were again not available. Nothing has decisively changed in the numbers the nation has been staring at for days: 253 votes on the election committee are safe for Biden, 213 for Trump. 270 voters are needed to win the election.
Michigan in the limelight of Trump loyalists
By Friday, Biden had blown Trump out of his head in the count in both Pennsylvania and Georgia. In Georgia, his lead was about 4,400 votes, but as many as 8,410 ballots from soldiers and Americans abroad could still count for the count. In Pennsylvania, whose twenty electoral votes would be enough for Biden to win under current status, he led with nearly 29,000 votes, with 102,000 votes yet to be counted. Democrats believe the state will succeed because a large portion of the missing votes come from its stronghold of Philadelphia. An official result was no longer expected there on Friday.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court upheld an instruction to separately count the ballots that arrive later. The president had recently regained ground in Arizona, but was still behind Biden. Biden also led in Nevada. A federal judge on Friday rejected calls by Republicans to intervene for unfair practices here. Among other things, they stated that their election observers would not be admitted; there was no evidence of this, the judge said.
Given the close range, it’s not surprising that supporters of Donald Trump want to back up his claims that Democrats “stole” the election with every real mistake and mishap. In the 3,141 districts with their nearly 240 million eligible voters, the infrastructure and financial resources of the administrations are very different. In all elections, not only individual errors occur, for which there are subsequent correction options, the so-called “cure” of the votes, there are also technical mishaps that receive little public attention in less tight voting.
Now, for Trump loyalists, the focus is on the state of Michigan, where a software bug in one county resulted in an incorrect count. Earlier, a judge had rejected Trump’s request to stop the count in Michigan. Disputes like the software bug could continue for days and weeks to come.
After accusing Democrats of voter fraud in an angry speech Thursday, Trump insisted Friday that he doubted the election results and still sees himself as the winner. His leadership “disappeared” in a mysterious way, he wrote on Twitter: He could win it again through the legal battle. Biden has no right to claim the office of president for himself.
The “Washington Post” reported from around Trump that he had no intention of acknowledging an electoral defeat in the traditional way with a speech when the time came. However, Trump also released a statement on Friday that was deemed a bit more cautious than the loud speech the day before. He called for “total transparency” in the count and “would never stop fighting for you and the nation,” he said.
Joe Biden’s team is now preparing a possible transition and trade period. According to the US media, the former vice president wants to build a team for the White House that represents different political directions. The “New York Times” reported that that team could be determined by the end of November. The transition team would be made up of health, business and technology experts who would primarily focus on the best ways to combat the coronavirus. Until now, it has been assumed that Donald Trump and his employees would cooperate during the handover period, it was said from around Biden, but they also have plans in case this is not the case.
