Biden has reached the magic limit:

– Yes, this is probably the nail in Trump’s coffin, but Trump has had “all hope” for quite some time, without this preventing the incumbent president from thinking that he is the real winner, says US expert Eirik Løkke in tankesmien Civita.

The Electoral College, which has cast its votes today, is the formal body that elects the President of the United States. Løkke doubts that they have now signaled that Biden will change something in the president’s mind. He has no faith that the outgoing president will accept Monday’s result.

– What Trump is doing, although quite clown, is a coup. It will probably continue to do so by trying to review the results of the Electoral College.

Never think that Trump will admit defeat

Løkke doesn’t think Trump will ever acknowledge that Biden will be the 46th president of the United States.

– But you will probably “acknowledge the facts on the ground” and actually leave the White House. He’s probably not interested in being forcibly removed, says Løkke.

Today, so-called voters gathered in all 50 states of the United States and in the capital Washington DC (which is not in any of the states).

They have formally cast their vote for the two candidates voted by the American people on November 3.

All the states except Hawaii have cast their votes and the result is clear. See the details below the picture.

Updated result

As of 11 p.m. Norway time, voters in 49 states, as well as Washington, DC, had cast their votes.

Among these were six states: Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Nevada, where Donald Trump has claimed to be the real winner, without providing any evidence. The courts have dismissed several lawsuits. Unsurprisingly, all of the voters in these states gave their vote to Joe Biden.

The following states have voted for Biden, who received a total of 302 votes:

Vermont, New Hampshire, Delaware, Illinois, Nevada, Maryland, Georgia, Virginia, Connecticut, Arizona, Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New Mexico, Colorado, Washington, DC, Maine (tre av fire), Michigan , Nebraska (in fem av), Washington, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Oregon og California.

The following states have voted for Trump, who received a total of 232 votes:

South Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee, Indiana, Iowa, Arkansas, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, Alabama, Kansas, South Dakota, Louisiana, Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, Idaho, West Virginia, Florida, Maine (on fire av), Alaska, Nebraska (fem av fire), Missouri, Texas or Montana.

You need to know this

But not sure why you voted today since the elections were held on November 3? Let’s quickly try to explain this somewhat capricious voter system:

• The president of the United States is not elected directly by the people, but by 538 of the so-called electors appointed by the states and DC.
• In principle, voters should vote for the candidate who received the most votes among the voters in the state to which the voters belong (in theory, they can go against it, but this is very rare).
• The number of voters in each state depends on how many inhabitants the states have. California, with the largest number of inhabitants, therefore has the largest number of voters.

• Whoever gets more than half the votes, that is, votes from at least 270 voters, is the winner.
• From the results of the November elections, we knew that Joe Biden won states with a total of 306 voters, while Donald Trump won states with 232 voters.
• The results of the votes cast today by these voters will be sent to Congress in Washington DC, which will meet on January 6 of next year to make the official count, which ends with the public declaration of the vice president as the winner.
• After this, the election is formally decided, and finally, and on January 20 a new president will be installed.

It was purely technical which may be good to know.

Abnormal

And as you understand, we’ve known the result for quite some time, in fact since November 7, when the census in enough states had gone far enough to predict that Biden had at least 270 voters.

Normally, one rarely cares to give importance to the day voters gather to cast their vote, which this year was December 14. Actually, this is just a mere formality. That was also the case today.

Although in some states the extraordinary step was taken today of offering police escorts to voters, or of holding the meeting in a secret location due to threats from Trump supporters.

In Wisconsin, one of the CNN voters reported receiving death threats.

Rejected in court

Donald Trump and his supporters have made several attempts to change the outcome of the election by taking allegations of voter fraud to court. And while this has been rejected in court after court, including the Federal Supreme Court on Friday and the Wisconsin Supreme Court to this day, this has led to today’s vote receiving an abnormal amount of attention.

Because even though it was how voters were expected to follow voters in their states, and drove another nail into Donald Trump’s coffin as president, no one expects the president to stop yelling about voter fraud, or to stop his attempts. desperate to change the election. .

Indicated violence

There is also enthusiasm for how your followers will react.

In Michigan, according to the Washington Post, Republican leaders have stripped one of their own elected representatives from office after he did not rule out resorting to violence in a radio interview.

Gary Eisen said he and other elected representatives may have to “act” to challenge Biden’s victory. He declined to answer exactly what he was referring to, but answered “no” when asked if he could guarantee that no one would be injured in the Michigan state capital today.

Theoretical opportunity

In theory, the votes of voters can protest in Congress. Given that 126 Republicans in one chamber of Congress, the House of Representatives, recently signed Texas’ lawsuit against four other states, a lawsuit that the Supreme Court rejected, it is not inconceivable that anyone would.

However, there is very little chance that he will lead. For a protest to pass, both houses, both the House of Representatives and the Senate, must vote in favor of it. A simple majority is sufficient, but since Democrats have a majority in the old house, this is unlikely to happen.

Eirik Løkke believes in nothing more than that Mike Pence on January 6 must declare that his time as vice president is over.

– But given the large number of Republican representatives who supported Texas’ demand to reject the result of the vote in other states, there is reason to believe that more Republican representatives will protest against the Electoral College and may also refuse to acknowledge the result, says Løkke , and add:

– It will be quite a twist, but then the Republican Party has largely become a tail of Trump, with strong anti-democratic tendencies.