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States hold their breath, eagerly awaiting the outcome of the presidential election, amid an unprecedentedly marked division among Americans over who will be president: Democratic candidate Joe Biden or outgoing President Donald Trump, both of whom promise views on opposite sides. from United States.
Polling stations closed at 7 p.m. Tuesday (0 GMT) in six US states, including Georgia, one of the crucial states in the race.
The polling stations in the United States close their doors, respectively, from east to west, in a process that continues until one in the morning local time (6:00 am GMT).
According to estimates by the US networks “CNN” and “NBC”, Trump won Indiana in the northern United States, in exchange for Biden winning Vermont.
Trump’s victory in that state would give him 11 high-level voters. Any presidential candidate needs the votes of 270 large voters to win the presidency.
The country prepares for a long night of anticipation. The voting process looks a lot like a referendum on the most controversial contemporary American president.
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At the end of a non-standard four-year presidential term and an electoral campaign overshadowed by the Covid-19 epidemic, more than a million voters cast their ballots in the early weeks before Tuesday’s elections to avoid standing in line. before the outbreak of the new Corona virus, which indicates the possibility of registering participation. Standard.
The death toll from the new Corona virus in the United States exceeded 231,000, negatively affecting Trump’s popularity. “It is the political game, and we are on elections, and nothing is certain,” the Republican president said Tuesday, while inspecting the headquarters of the Republican Campaign in a Washington suburb.
“Winning is easy, but losing is not easy. For me, it is not,” he added, in a tired voice, referring to the possibility of losing the election.
The 74-year-old Republican candidate had occupied the podiums and intensified his electoral movement in recent days, betting on the enthusiasm of his supporters, who are living in maximum mobilization as a result of an unprecedented electoral campaign, with the aim of achieving a surprise, as they did in 2016.
For his part, Biden (77 years old), whose opinion polls favored his victory months ago, has the aversion that his opponent arouses among a large part of the electorate, to achieve a “broad victory” and enter the White House as president after serving as vice president under Barack Obama.
“I want to restore the dignity of the White House,” he said on loudspeaker Tuesday in front of a small group of his supporters in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, which is considered essential for both candidates.
Then he went to the house where he spent his childhood, where he left the following message “From this house to the White House, God willing.”
Biden said upon his return to his Wilmington headquarters that he was “reassured,” encouraged by the high turnout of youth, women and African Americans in the elections.
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‘I want to get rid of Trump’
Americans flocked to polling stations across the country with mixed motives.
“I want to get rid of Trump,” said Veronica Castro, a 37-year-old teacher France met at a polling station in Easton, Pennsylvania.
On the other hand, Clara Jiménez, an American of Cuban descent, proudly voted for Donald Trump in Miami and emphasized: “We need a strong president who defends and loves his country.”
Voters, wherever they are, fear the behavior of the opposing side.
“Trump will do everything he can to win, which is terrifying,” said Megan Burns-Borderran, 35, a New York-based Democratic supporter.
Trump has been confirming for months without providing any evidence that voting by mail will lead to massive fraud and has hinted at the possibility of a court battle after the election.
However, he sought reassurance on Tuesday, emphasizing that he would not declare his victory until the official results were released, contrary to speculation in the US media.
He added that Americans have the right to know the results “on election day,” and emphasized that “the whole world is waiting.”
Voting by mail may cause a delay in the counting of votes.
In a tangible sign of voting anxiety, several stores in major cities, including Washington, Los Angeles and New York, have fortified their windows in anticipation of the violence that could follow the elections.
In front of the famous Trump Tower, barricaded security reinforcements and a large number of policemen were deployed.
However, the stock market closed at a significant height, indicating the presence of comfort and confidence in the financial markets.
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‘America first’
Throughout the electoral campaign, the United States projected the image of a country divided into two rival camps, without communication.
For months, Donald Trump pointed to the danger of a “radical left” coming to power bent on turning the world’s largest economy into “Venezuela on a grand scale.” “If they win, our country will change forever,” he told Fox News on Tuesday.
The Democrats, led by Joe Biden and Barack Obama, are intensifying their warnings about the consequences that could be devastating for democratic institutions should Trump win a second term.
The two candidates for the elections are on opposite sides.
On the one hand, the Republican candidate, New York billionaire and former real estate mogul, went from hosting a reality show to breaking into the political arena with a populist message based on “America first,” and still insists he is “a I miss “politics even though he spent four years in the White House.
On the other hand, the Democratic candidate, Biden, a veteran of politics, comes from the middle class. He has been in the Senate for 36 years and eight as Obama’s deputy, vowing to soothe the nation’s wounds if he wins “the battle for America’s soul.”
Biden, the moderate, prevailed in his party’s primaries with a simple message of defeating Donald Trump, whom he called “the worst president” in US history. Throughout the electoral campaign, the ballot held a referendum on the Republican president’s management of the Covid-19 epidemic.
This health crisis haunted the president, who always sought to reduce his importance until he caught the virus and was hospitalized in early October.
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Critical mandates
All eyes are on Tuesday night (US time) in Florida, one of the critical states in the elections. Without winning this status, which he previously won in 2016, the task will be nearly impossible for Donald Trump to remain in the White House.
On the other hand, if he wins in Florida, where the competition is fierce with Biden at the polls, the focus will be on Pennsylvania, the Democratic candidate’s hometown. Opinion polls show an advantage for the former vice president, but close to the margin of error.
There is great expectation for the results of the candidates for Congress, since the margin for the decision of the next president depends on the majority in the House and Senate.
