Biden on Monday as the next president of the nation, granting him a solid electoral majority of 306 votes and confirming his victory in last month’s elections. The state-by-state voting rose to prominence this year due to President Donald Trump’s refusal to admit he had lost.
In some states, there was greater security when voters gathered on the day established by federal law. Voters cast paper votes in meetings with masks, social distancing and other virus precautions the order of the day. The results will be sent to Washington and accounted for in a joint session of Congress on January 6, chaired by Vice President Mike Pence.
For all of Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of fraud, there was little suspense and no change as all electoral votes assigned to
Biden and the president in the popular vote last month officially went to each man.
Biden he comfortably beat Trump, who had 232 electoral votes. The Democrat had outnumbered the incumbent Republican by more than 7 million in the popular vote nationwide.
California’s 55 electoral votes placed
Biden excessive. Vermont, with 3 votes, was the first state to report. Hawaii, with 4 votes, was the last.
“ In this battle for the soul of America, democracy prevailed, ”
Biden he said in remarks prepared for an evening address. “ We the people vote. Faith in our institutions is maintained. The integrity of our choices remains intact. And so, now is the time to turn the page. Link. To heal.”
Biden He renewed his campaign promise to be a president for all Americans, whether they vote for him or not, and said the country has a lot of work ahead of it on the virus and the economy.
But there was no concession from the White House, where Trump has continued to make unsubstantiated fraud accusations.
Trump remained in the Oval Office long after sunset in Washington, calling out allies and fellow Republicans while keeping track of the Electoral College checking account, according to the White House and campaign aides. The president frequently wandered into the private dining room in front of the Oval Office to watch television, complaining that cable networks were treating him like a mini election night without giving his challenges airtime.
The president had been increasingly disappointed with the size of the “ Stop the Steal ” rallies across the country, as well as the efforts of the Republican Party to present its own voters lists in the states. A presidential desire for a fierce defense of the administration led to early Monday television appearances by Stephen Miller, one of its fiercest advocates, to try to downplay the importance of the Electoral College vote and suggest that Trump’s legal challenges would continue. until Opening Day. January 20.
At the end of the day, he took to Twitter to announce that Attorney General William Barr would be leaving the administration before Christmas. Barr’s departure comes amid persistent tension over Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of fraud, especially after Barr’s statement this month to The Associated Press that the election results were unaffected by any fraud.
In a Fox News interview recorded over the weekend, Trump said that “ I am concerned that the country has an illegitimate president, that’s what worries me. A president who lost and lost badly. ”
On Monday in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin _ all six battlefields declare that
Biden won and Trump contested _ voters gave
Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris cast their votes in discreet procedures. Nevada voters rallied via Zoom due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump’s efforts to undermine election results also raised concerns about voter safety, something virtually unheard of in previous years. In Michigan, lawmakers from both parties reported receiving threats and legislative offices were closed due to threats of violence.
Biden won the state by 154,000 votes, or 2.8 percentage points, over Trump.
Georgia State Police were present at the State Capitol in Atlanta before Democratic voters pledged to
Biden met. No protesters were seen.
Even with the confirmation of the Electoral College of
BidenAfter the victory, some Republicans continued to refuse to acknowledge that reality. However, his opposition to
Biden It had no practical effect on the electoral process, and the Democrat will be sworn in next month.
Republicans who would have been Trump constituents gathered in a handful of states anyway.
Biden won. Pennsylvania Republicans said they cast a “ procedural vote ” for Trump and Pence in case courts that have repeatedly rejected challenges to
BidenVictory was going to somehow determine that Trump had won.
In North Carolina, Utah, and other states across the country where Trump won, his constituents duly voted for him. Voters in North Carolina had their temperatures checked before they were allowed to enter the Capitol to vote. Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes retired as Trump’s constituent and was in quarantine because he was exposed to someone with COVID-19.
Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whom Trump defeated four years ago, were among New York’s 29 voters to vote.
Biden and Harris.
In New Hampshire, before the state’s four electors voted for
Biden At the State House in Concord, 13-year-old Brayden Harrington led the group in the Pledge of Allegiance. He had delivered a moving speech at the Democratic National Convention in August on fighting stuttering that he shares with
Biden.
After weeks of Republican legal challenges that were easily dismissed by the justices, Trump and his Republican allies tried to persuade the Supreme Court last week to reserve 62 electoral votes for
Biden in four states, which could have cast doubt on the outcome.
The judges rejected the effort on Friday.
The Electoral College was the product of a compromise during the drafting of the Constitution between those who favored the election of the president by popular vote and those who opposed giving the people the power to directly elect their leader.
Each state gets a number of voters equal to its total number of seats in Congress: two senators plus the number of members the state has in the House of Representatives. Washington, DC, has three votes, under a constitutional amendment that was ratified in 1961. With the exception of Maine and Nebraska, states award all of their Electoral College votes to the winner of the popular vote in their state.
The deal struck by the nation’s founders has produced five elections in which the president did not win the popular vote. Trump was the most recent example in 2016.
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