Biden wins Michigan – VG

Five states can now decide who will be the next president of the United States: Donald Trump or challenger Joe Biden.

Biden now has 264 voters, while Trump has 214. This comes after several US outlets announced Biden as the winner in Michigan. The target is 270, which ensures a majority. Biden only needs six more voters, while Trump must bring 56.

Joe Biden now only needs Nevada, a state he leads, to get 270 voters.

However, victory is not yet assured and only decimals separate the two candidates in various states.

VG gets its figures from the DPA news agency, which updates its figures somewhat later than, for example, Fox News.

In these states, the Battle of the White House (number of voters in parentheses) is:

• I Michigan (16) Biden was announced as the winner Wednesday night, by both CNN and NBC News. Biden’s lead is 1.3 percent and nearly 67,000 voters. Trump’s campaign manager, Bill Stepien, said in a statement Wednesday that the campaign wants a pause in the counting of votes in this state.
• I Nevada (6) Trump faces Biden, who has a small 0.6 percentage point lead and just under 8,000 votes. The state won’t count any more until Thursday morning.

• I Pennsylvania (20) leads Donald Trump by 5.3 percent when 86 percent of the vote is reported. In this state, Biden faces the American president.
• I North Carolina (15) leads Trump by 1.4 percentage points. According to the New York Times, there is an 86 percent chance that Trump will win the state, with 94 percent of the votes reported.
• I Georgia (16) 96 percent of the vote in the state has been reported and, so far, Trump leads by 1.6 percentage points.
• CNN and Fox News give Joe Biden the win in Wisconsin (10). Donald Trump’s election campaign warns that they will demand a recount. They are entitled to this if the margin is less than one percent.
• Biden was announced the winner earlier on Wednesday. Arizona (11). The confusion arose when it turned out that there are far more votes left to count than previously thought, but Biden wins a large majority of the votes in the districts from which the majority of the remaining votes will come. Fox News has named Biden as the winner here.
• Also remains Alaska (3) where Trump has significant leadership.

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Trump claimed Wednesday night that he had won the election and accused “a group of people” of trying to take away the victory and defraud the American people. Wednesday came with a new accusation:

– Last night, I led, often clearly, in many key states that are almost without exception controlled and run by Democrats. Then one by one, they began to magically disappear as amazing stacks of ballots were counted, he tweets.

– VERY STRANGE, and the “pollsters” were totally and historically wrong! He adds.

– They find voices of Biden everywhere: in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. So bad for our country, Trump tweets.

All three Twitter messages are marked as potentially misleading information. The OSCE’s chief election observer in the United States criticizes Donald Trump for undermining confidence in democracy with his accusations of election fraud.

– Unsubstantiated accusations of systematic shortcomings, especially by the incumbent president, even on election night, damage the public’s confidence in democratic institutions, says Michael Georg Link.

Biden, in turn, tweeted “count every vote.” He thinks there will be enough voters for him to win, but we haven’t declared anything yet.

“Democracy is the heartbeat of this nation,” he said in a speech Wednesday.

The states that have settled

These states are divided (number of voters in parentheses):

• Donald Trump vinner Indiana (11), Kentucky (8), Mississippi (6), Missouri (10), Oklahoma (7), South Carolina (9), Tennessee (11), West Virginia (5), Arkansas (9) , Alabama (9), Louisiana (8), South Dakota (3), North Dakota (3), Nebraska (4), Wyoming (3), Kansas (6), Utah (6), Idaho (4), Florida (29), Iowa (6), Ohio (18), Texas (38) og Maine (1 of 4)
• Joe Biden utpekes som vinner i Connecticut (7), Delaware (3), Illinois (20), Maine (3 to 4), Maryland (10), Massachusetts (11), New Jersey (14), Vermont (3), Virginia (13), Washington, DC (3), Rhode Island (4), New Mexico (5), Nebraska (1), New York (29), Colorado (9), New Hampshire (4), California (55), Oregon (7), Washington (12), Hawaii (4), Minnesota (10), Wisconsin (10) and Arizona (11)