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Voters confirm victory: Biden asks Trump for recognition
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Joe Biden giving his speech after the election vote
Source: AFP / ROBERTO SCHMIDT
For weeks it has been clear that Joe Biden won the presidential election against incumbent Donald Trump. But he still does not recognize his electoral defeat. Now Biden takes on another major hurdle before moving into the White House and sends an appeal to Trump.
reElectoral votes in nearly every US state and the capital city of Washington confirmed Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over incumbent Donald Trump in the presidential election. The California vote lifted Biden Monday night (local time) above the threshold of the 270 necessary votes.
Biden said after the electorate vote in all 50 states and the capital district: “The flame of democracy was lit in this nation a long time ago,” the Democrat said Monday night (local time) in Wilmington, Delaware. “And now we know that nothing, not even a pandemic or abuse of power, can put out that flame.”
Biden said, “In this battle for the soul of America, democracy has triumphed.” Now is the time to close the gap and unite. “As I said in the campaign, I will be president of all Americans. I will work just as hard for those of you who did not vote for me as I will work for those who voted for me. “
Biden said: “There is an urgent job ahead of us all: control the pandemic, vaccinate the nation against this virus.”
Biden asked Trump to acknowledge his electoral defeat. He noted that the electorate gave him 306 of the 538 votes. That corresponds to exactly the same majority that Trump described as a “landslide victory” four years ago. “Those numbers represented a clear victory back then and I respectfully suggest that they do so now,” Biden said.
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. There were no dissenters in the voting on Monday, all voters voted according to the results.
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.
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 sees himself stripped of his victory by 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.
