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J. Biden declares that he will seek to regain trust, strengthen the alliances in which the United States participates, which is undoubtedly important for Lithuania. In terms of attention to our region, J. Biden seems to be a more suitable and capable candidate for further cooperation with Lithuania and other European countries, ”said Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University, Wednesday morning.
Gerda Jakštaitė, a political scientist at Vytautas Magnus University (Vytautas Magnus University), noted that J. Biden would make a more stable and predictable president.
“Among the ideas declared, there are things really very favorable for Lithuania: support for NATO, the idea that it is necessary to maintain and improve relations with allies and support for sanctions against Russia resonate with the foreign policy ideas of Lithuania, “he said.
However, R. Vilpišauskas pointed out that even under the leadership of the re-elected Republican Donald Trump, Lithuania received favorable decisions, such as the deployment of American troops, but, in his opinion, “D. Trump is not the candidate that many allies of Europe and NATO would wait. “
According to G.Jakštaitė, the ideas of the Republican Party are close to the objectives of Lithuania’s foreign policy: increasing defense spending, a strict approach from Russia.
“In Trump’s case, if he wins his second term, there is a lot of chance for surprises all the time,” he said.
The fight is fiercer than expected
According to political scientists, the first results of the elections reveal that the fight is fiercer than expected.
“The main thing that can be said at the moment is that the electoral struggle is fiercer than could have been predicted on the basis of public opinion polls, and so far the situation of those fluctuating states that may determine the final result of the presidential elections, “said Vilpišauskas.
“Biden’s lead so far is not too surprising, but it’s not so far removed from Trump that we can talk about Biden’s victory,” he said.
G.Jakštaitė also noted that the current situation is different from the preliminary polls that predicted the victory of the Democratic candidate: “Before the electoral polls showed the probable victory of Biden, but now that those votes have been counted, that advantage is diminishing. significantly “.
“The process will definitely take longer, and it is unlikely that the candidate who actually won that election will be announced today,” said the VMU political scientist.
According to R. Vilpišauskas, regardless of which candidate wins the election, domestic political issues, such as racial inequality, the management of a pandemic, and economic problems, will dominate his agenda.
“And the confrontation we are seeing now, which is confirmed by the election results, will continue to be a very important challenge, which will also affect the participation of the United States in world affairs, which is also relevant for Lithuania,” he said.
“You can see that both candidates mobilized both their supporters and, by the way, their opponents quite strongly. There may be a lot of people who have voted against one of these two candidates,” added the political scientist.
According to the latest data, Biden got 223 votes and Trump had 214 votes.
American media predictions show a second-term Republican president wins in 23 states, including prominent Florida and Texas, as well as Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, and Tennessee. In all of them, D. Trumpas also won during the 2016 elections.
And Biden is considered the winner of 18 states, including Connecticut, his home state of Delaware, critical states in New York and California, as well as the capital, Washington, D.C.
Reviewers predict that the end of the fight for the White House will be determined by only a handful of so-called volatile states, the results of which have yet to be announced. It is unclear who won in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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