Democratic candidate Joe Biden says the numbers show he will win the presidential race. He leads in Pennsylvania and Georgia.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has once again urged people in the United States to remain patient and calm as the vote counting continues in a handful of states that hold the key to the White House.
In a speech from Wilmington, Delaware late Friday night, Biden said: “We don’t have a final victory declaration yet, but the numbers are clear: we will win this race.
“Look at the national numbers, we are going to win this race with a clear majority and the nation is behind us. We have obtained more than 74 million votes, ”he said.
Biden took the lead Friday in Pennsylvania and Georgia, two states that are still counting ballots, and moved closer to a victory in the disputed presidential race against President Donald Trump.
The Associated Press news agency says both states, as well as Nevada, North Carolina and Alaska, are still too close to call.
Despite that, Biden seems confident that the final numbers will be in his favor.
“We will be the first Democrats to win in Arizona in 24 years. We will be the first Democrats to win Georgia in 28 years, ”he said.
He said he wanted all the ballots to be counted.
Currently, Biden is projected to get 264 Electoral College votes, according to the AP, compared to Trump’s 214 electoral votes. To take the presidency, a candidate needs 270 votes from the Electoral College. Biden has a clearer and easier path to victory right now than Trump.
“We are on track to get more than 300 votes in the Electoral College,” Biden said in his short speech. He said he and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, were not only awaiting the results of the vote, but were meeting with health and economic experts, and had a plan to handle the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout. for when they take office.
Trump addressed the nation on Thursday from the White House, where he repeated unsubstantiated claims that widespread voter fraud has occurred in the elections.
On Friday, Trump, who falsely claimed that he had won the election in the early hours of Wednesday, tweeted that Biden “should not unfairly claim the office of the president” because legal proceedings were just beginning.
The Trump campaign has filed lawsuits in several states demanding that the vote count be suspended, while signaling its intention to demand a recount in Wisconsin, which the AP projected Biden won.
The courts have already rejected some of those legal challenges, and experts have said they do not believe the lawsuits significantly affect the outcome of the vote.
Biden said he expected to address the nation again on Saturday.
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