Biden Takes the Lead in Georgia and Pennsylvania – NRK Urix – Foreign News & Documentaries

On Friday afternoon, Joe Biden leads with 5,594 votes in Pennsylvania after a large proportion of Philadelphia’s mail-in votes have been counted.

Not all votes are counted yet.

Trump cannot be re-elected if he does not win Pennsylvania with his 20 voters. Biden, on the other hand, crosses the magic limit of 270 voters if he wins in Pennsylvania.

If that happens, Biden will be the 46th president of the United States.

Of the more than 31,000 votes reported from Philadelphia as of 3 p.m., Biden received more than 87 percent support.

This is the status at 2pm on Friday:

• Georgia: Biden leader with 1097 votes
• Pennsylvania: Biden leader with 5594 votes
• Nevada: Biden leader with 11,438 votes
• North Carolina: Triumph leader with 76,737 votes

In addition to these states, votes are still counted in Alaska and Arizona. The latter has the AP news agency and NRK reported that it goes to Joe Biden with 11 voters.

Many American media, on the other hand, are waiting for all votes to be counted here, although Arizona is less likely to go to Trump.

Can be counted

On Friday, Joe Biden took over the leadership of Donald Trump in Georgia. This afternoon he leads with 1096 votes.

A few thousand votes have yet to be counted.

According to the New York Times, the count continues throughout the day, and at night if necessary, in Georgia until they reach the finish line.

If the end result is completely uniform, one can speak of a count.

In Georgia, candidates can apply for this. In Pennsylvania, this happens automatically if there is a difference of less than 0.5 percentage point between the candidates.

It’s rare that polls have significantly changed the outcome of an election, according to CNN.

Advance votes are still coming in. Provided that the votes are stamped before the day of the elections, they can be counted, even if they arrive by mail after the day of the elections, and must be delivered to the polling stations before Friday.

The president will stop counting

President Donald Trump has repeatedly made serious accusations of “illegal” votes and accuses Democrats of trying to “steal” the election.

So far there is no indication that this is the case. The head of the US Election Commission has taken a hard line against the president.

On Friday afternoon, Trump’s election campaign says, “This election is not over.”

Ellen Weintraub says that the president’s lies’ undermine our democracy and harm the country. Only for “.

Trump has intended to stop the count in Pennsylvania, where Biden is catching up, while they will continue in Arizona, where Trump is starting to get closer to Biden.

– Not worthy of a democracy

Former White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman did not like what she heard from the president last night.

– It’s completely unreal. I’ve known Donald Trump for 17 years, and for the first time he has outdone himself when it comes to all the outright falsehoods and lies he told.

Also, former Senator Rick Santorum, who is now a CNN commentator, is reacting.

“No Republican elected representative will support Trump’s statements,” Santorum told CNN.

Fox and Friends, the television show on Fox News, was also skeptical of Donald Trump’s unfounded allegations of election fraud.

Anders Romarheim, a US researcher at the Department of Defense Studies, believes that Trump with his statements is trying to find a way out of this election in which he will never admit that he has lost.

– This is not a decent democracy, he tells NRK.

Fear of street fights

According to Romarheim, Trump’s statements could generate violence. He says the United States has had a problem for many years with the forces of the right, which are “willing to do a lot to fight for this electoral result.”

He adds that there is also left-wing violence in the streets, but that this is a marginal problem.

According to the researcher, it is difficult to assess whether the situation will get worse, but he says there are real chances that there are now real street fights in the United States.

– Elections are much more fragile than we like to think.

He says it is dangerous to upset the election as an institution, and that it is important to follow the rules of the game that votes must be counted for a winner and a loser to be chosen.

– So, would it be correct to say that what Trump is doing now is a frontal attack on the democratic United States?

– Yes, I think we almost have to say that, at least in electoral schemes. And electoral systems are fundamental to a democracy.

Romarheim calls this “conditions similar to a civil war” but does not believe that there is a civil war in the United States.