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Trump’s campaign fails to reverse its loss (Jonathan Newton / Getty)
Democratic candidate Joe Biden won the electoral college, which officially determines the next president of the United States, to end President Donald Trump’s campaign to reverse his November 3 election.
And the state of California, which has 55 votes in the electoral college, gave its votes to Biden, so the Democrat officially exceeded the quorum required to win the presidency, which is 270 votes.
According to the November results, Biden won 306 votes on the premises, compared to 232 for Trump.
Voters rallied in all 50 states under tight security, amid tension fueled by Trump’s intransigence in his refusal to acknowledge defeat.
Before the official announcement, the results easily gave Biden a victory, obtaining the votes of 302 of 538 voters, compared to 236 for Trump, knowing that victory is decided for whoever gets 270 votes.
On Monday night, Biden will call on his citizens to “turn the page” on the elections and unify their ranks, in a speech he will deliver after members of the electorate cast their votes.
“In the battle for the soul of the United States, democracy has triumphed,” Biden will say, according to excerpts from his speech released by his office.
And he will add in the scheduled speech: “The integrity of our elections has been preserved. It is time to turn the page,” in a clear criticism of Trump, without naming him.
Voters gathered in 50 states under tight security, amid tension fueled by Trump’s intransigence in his refusal to acknowledge defeat.
He will underline that “the flame of democracy was lit a long time ago in this country. We now know that nothing, not even a pandemic or abuse of power, can extinguish this flame.”
And in Pennsylvania, Democrat Nancy Patton Mills, while presiding over the vote that took place while taking precautions against Covid-19, said, “I hope you see me smiling behind this muzzle.”
The main voters are local political officials, activists, civil society figures or friends of the candidates.
Most of them are unknown to the general public, although national figures sometimes participate, such as Hillary Clinton, who lost to Trump in the 2016 election, but will vote on Monday in New York to confirm the victory of President-elect Biden and his elected MP, Kamala Harris.
The United States elects its president by indirect universal suffrage, whereby each state grants the votes of its constituents in the electorate, the number of which is determined by population, to the candidate who won the popular vote of the state.
The electoral college is a tradition that has long been considered a formality to affirm the will of citizens expressed at the ballot box.
On Friday, the US Supreme Court, despite having a conservative majority, including three judges appointed by Trump himself, declined to consider an appeal filed by Texas authorities, and another appeal also filed by Republicans, with the goal of canceling presidential election results in various states.
Trump’s fraud accusations are backed by many Republican lawmakers.
Some of them may finally be ready to admit Biden’s victory, after the electorate approved it.
Trump maintained a series of unsubstantiated threats and accusations on Twitter, referring to “massive electoral fraud” and declared that supporting the election results would be “a crime punishable by law.”
However, the legal vote will leave the Electoral College no other hope for Trump.
And in the latest sign of the trend reversal, the fiercely sympathetic Wall Street Journal wrote on Monday that its time is up.
“The legal appeals filed by President Trump continued their course, and he and the rest of the Republican Party can help the country and themselves by acknowledging the result and moving forward,” he added.
Georgia votes for two Senate seats
On the other hand, early voting began this Monday in the electoral colleges of the US state of Georgia, in a new and fateful political moment, represented by double elections that will determine the balance of power in the Senate, six weeks after the controversial presidential election .
The southeastern state elections, scheduled for January 5, have received attention across the country as their outcome will help determine the extent to which President-elect Joe Biden will be able to pass his political agenda in Congress to become law.
Democrats will have to win two seats in order to control the Senate, while Republicans will have to keep just one seat to ensure they retain a majority.
Republicans highlighted the importance of winning the Georgia election, which they see as the last line of defense against what they describe as the radical left’s agenda.
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