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The contrasting view of the two supporters’ camps unfolds on the streets of Philadelphia.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PHILADELPHIA – Joe Biden supporters danced in the streets in front of a polling station in Philadelphia on Friday (11/6) as the results of the vote count continued to pile up. The results show that the former vice president of the Democratic Party can immediately be declared the winner of the US presidential elections.
In Detroit, several hundred supporters of President Donald Trump, some of whom appear armed. They yelled, “We won!” Although Trump’s victory seems increasingly unlikely.
Philadelphia appears to be enjoying its turn as the center of attention of the nation. Even if it was obtained through relatively slow vote counting as the largest city in the state of Pennsylvania. State II is one of the few key states where the results of the US presidential election are premature to conclude.
Sean Truppo, a 37-year-old social studies teacher, said he set off fireworks after he was woken up by the news that Biden had beaten Trump on the state tally. This was done before placing his 4-year-old daughter in a stroller to join the crowd outside the Philadelphia Convention Center.
“My daughter was born during the Trump administration and I want her to see the end of Trump,” he said.
Biden has the advantage of 253 Electoral College. Meanwhile, Trump won 214 Electoral College, according to Edison Research.
Winning Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes would put the former vice president in the top 270 he needed to secure the presidency. The nation has spent more than two days waiting for election officials to collect millions of votes in just a few hard-fought states.
Many Americans have spent that time watching the news slowly unfold. Or do your homework to distract yourself from prolonged uncertainty.
Some of them have taken to the streets. Biden’s supporters cheered for voting officials to quickly count each vote. Every once in a while they would dance whenever someone put a Beyonce song or a Missy Elliott song on the speaker.
Some Trump supporters, following the president’s directions. They insist that there must be something wrong with whatever Biden’s victory suggests.
Trump supporters carry rifles and pistols as they demonstrate outside counting centers in Detroit and Phoenix, Arizona. They wore uniforms in the shape of red baseball caps that read “Make America Great Again.” Some people knelt while praying.
Gary Smith, 69, a nurse, came from Casco, Michigan, to attend a rally outside the Detroit tally center. “A lot of false votes have been counted,” Smith said, echoing the unsubstantiated claims of Trump’s statement at the White House Thursday night.
Smith said he hopes that most ballots that arrive in the mail will be considered illegal. “We will continue with trials, protests, who knows, maybe civil disobedience,” he said.
Studies have found that invalid ballots are increasingly rare in the highly decentralized state-controlled system used in American elections, which involve both Democratic and Republican election officials and vote-tallying observers from both parties. In Arizona, another hotly contested state, supporters of Trump and Biden briefly clashed outside the Maricopa County Elections Department in Phoenix overnight.
A growing crowd of several hundred Trump supporters returned to the counting center in Phoenix from Maricopa County on Friday morning. In that area, around 142 thousand ballots remain to be counted.
source: Between
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