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Mystery still surrounds the results of the US presidential election, although a victory in a single state separates Democratic candidate Joe Biden from victory over Republican President Donald Trump.
These are the most important events in the US elections since Wednesday night:
So far, Biden has managed to win the support of 264 of the 538 electoral college members and only needs another six votes to win the election, while Trump has received 214 votes so far.
The fate of the US presidency depends on the results of the vote in four states in which the clear winner has yet to be determined, namely Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia.
Biden is behind Trump in three of these states (by 49.1% compared to 49.6% in Georgia after 98% of the votes were counted, and by 48.7% against 50 , 1% in North Carolina after 94% of the votes were counted, and 48.1% versus 50.7%). % In Pennsylvania, after counting 89% of the votes).
– But in Nevada (to which six seats in the Electoral College belong, that is, the number that Biden needs to win), the Democratic candidate is ahead of the Republican president after counting 75% of the votes by 49.3 % versus 48.7%.
As for the popular vote, Biden is ahead of Trump by 50.4% to 48% of the vote.
– The Trump campaign has filed vote-recount lawsuits in several states, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia, and intends to file a complaint requesting a recount in Wisconsin, and is studying the possibility of filing a lawsuit over the results. of voting in Arizona and Nevada.
Biden expressed confidence in his victory and asked citizens to reduce existing tensions and await the final results of the vote.
Biden launched a transition site.
Several US cities are witnessing demonstrations by supporters of both presidential candidates, with friction between security and anti-Trump protesters in Portland.
– The International Election Observation Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe praised the level of organization of the voting process in the United States and described Trump’s accusations of the occurrence of fraud during voting as “unjustified and undermines society’s trust in democratic institutions “.
Source: Russia today
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