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For those of you who spent all night observing events during the night, here’s a rundown of the latest news from lunchtime, as the Republican Party continues to dispute the validity of mail-in ballots and Biden’s campaign predicts a “path clear “win.
‘Road to victory’
At this point, both President Donald Trump and Joe Biden still have possible paths to reach the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. Much still depends on the outcome in the three key Rust Belt states: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
‘On the way to winning these elections’
Joe Biden’s campaign manager, Jen O’Malley Dillon, said the Democratic candidate was “on track to win this election” and predicted that he will be the next president of the United States.
She added: “We believe we are on a clear path to victory. By this afternoon we hope that the vice president will have clues in the states that place him above 270 electoral votes.
“Today the vice president will get more votes than any presidential candidate in history and we are still counting.”
We will not rest until everyone’s vote is counted. Tune in as my campaign manager @jomalleydillon and campaign advisor Bob Bauer give an update on the race situation. https://t.co/Rwz4iR25B3
– Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 4, 2020
‘Then one by one, they began to magically disappear.’
But at the same time on Twitter, Donald Trump again questioned the validity of mail-in ballots, which were counted last in many states.
Last night he was leading, often solidly, in many key states, in almost all cases controlled and controlled by the Democrats. Then one by one, they began to magically disappear as the surprise dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE, and the “pollsters” got it completely and historically wrong!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 4, 2020
He said: “Last night I was leading, often solidly, in a lot of key states, in almost every case controlled and controlled by the Democrats. Then one by one, they started to magically disappear as the surprise dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE, and the “pollsters” got it completely and historically wrong. ”
Twitter labeled the Tweet as possibly disputed and misleading. Similar action was taken against an earlier tweet from the president that suggested the Democratic candidate was seeking to “steal” the election. Twitter action makes Tweets less visible.
In every US presidential election., officials typically take several days to process provisional and mail ballots. This year there were more postal ballots due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The additional ballot count is not a surprise, nor is it that such votes favored Biden, which was widely predicted in the run-up to the vote.
President of the United States, Donald Trump The campaign said it would continue legal efforts to ensure that votes cast legally, and not cast illegally, were counted. He said he expected to win even as votes continued to be counted in key states. “If we count all the legal votes, we win, the president wins,” Bill Stepien told reporters on a conference call.
Biden’s campaign said President Trump would face “shameful defeat” if he fought for the vote in the Supreme Court.
The U.S. Postal Service completed required sweeps of mail processing facilities late Tuesday in a dozen states after previously saying it could not meet the afternoon deadline to complete checks, an agency spokesman said today. The raid was ordered in response to demands from groups like VoteForward, NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and advocates of the Latino community.
In the key state of PennsylvaniaNearly 50% of the mail-in ballots had been counted by this afternoon. Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar promised that all votes would be counted before the results are announced.
“There are still millions of votes to be counted,” he told reporters.
This year there are ten times more ballots by mail than in 2016, he said.
Meanwhile, a Pennsylvania federal judge he was weighing the arguments of Republicans seeking to prevent a suburban Philadelphia county from counting votes sent by mail and absentee votes that voters could correct.
US District Judge Timothy Savage in Philadelphia was skeptical of the plaintiffs’ attorney’s arguments, which according to attorneys for Montgomery County elections officials and the Democratic National Committee could disenfranchise voters. The decision could have implications for the national presidential race between incumbent Republican Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden in this battlefield state.
Joe Biden still keeps narrow tracks in Wisconsin and Michigan, according to Edison Research, as the two Midwest battlefield states that the Republican president won in 2016 continued to count mail-in ballots.
If he, too, takes Nevada tomorrow, another state where he was holding on to a small lead, those states could cast the 270 votes needed in the Electoral College state by state to win the White House.
Khloe Kardashian urged people to be careful of themselves if they are “full of nerves” while they wait for the result of the American elections. Commenting on the heartbreaking results, he, 36, said he is “seeing that so many people were unable to sleep because of the elections.”
“Even people who are not from this country,” he added. “Many are plagued with nerves.”
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro He said today that he hoped Donald Trump would come out ahead in the informal elections and lashed out at Democratic contender Joe Biden’s comments on protecting the Amazon rainforest.
The far-right leader, who has been dubbed a “tropical Trump,” has cultivated a close relationship with the Republican president and has had no qualms about backing his re-election bid.
“They know my position, I have been clear. I have a good relationship with Trump,” he told his supporters in front of the presidential palace in Brasilia.
In more news from one of those battle states, Michigan, Joe Biden obtained 49.5% of the votes and Donald Trump 48.0% according to Edison Research, with 92% of the expected votes counted.
However, in Wayne County, home to the Democratic-leaning city if Detroit, Biden’s lead increased to 66.9% with about three-quarters of the expected votes counted there. An unofficial vote recount is expected for Michigan later today.
He too tight to call elections It has also been closely followed with an estimated 22.8 million television viewers on six US networks, according to the first data cited by the Hollywood Wrap medium.
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