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Current US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will leave the White House if Electoral College votes give him the victory of his Democratic opponent Joe Biden.
“It just came to our notice then. And you know it well,” Donald Trump told reporters who asked him a question.
It is the declaration with which Donald Trump comes closest to recognizing the defeat suffered in the November 3 elections.
Voting in the Electoral College would take place on December 14 and the president’s inauguration on January 20.
However, Donald Trump took up the accusations that the vote was incorrect and said that under these conditions he cannot recognize the victory of his opponent. He claims that it is impossible for Joe Biden to have received the votes of 80 million Americans, even though this official count was shown.
At the insistence of reporters, who asked him if he was willing to admit defeat, Trump admitted that it was difficult for him to do so, even as the Electoral College confirmed Joe Biden’s victory. “If they (the voters, don’t) do that (attribute the victory to Joe Biden, no), they are making a mistake. The election is rigged,” said Donald Trump.
More than three weeks after the election, however, there was no evidence of a massive incorrect vote, although Donald Trump claims this, and many states have already officially validated the election results.
The acting president declined to say whether he will attend Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony, as tradition goes, but confirmed that he will physically leave the White House if the Electoral College attributes the victory to the former vice president. Obama
“To be honest, I know the answer, but I just don’t want to say it yet,” Trump said when asked if he would be present at the opening ceremony. He added that “it is not fair” that Joe Biden has already started appointing his future administration team.
On the other hand, the current White House tenant declined to say whether he plans to run again in 2024, according to some sources. “I don’t want to talk about 2024 just yet,” he told a journalist.
Trump was out of his mind quickly, in his first discussion with reporters in three weeks.
For the first time since the Nov. 3 election, Donald Trump spoke to White House reporters Thursday after a teleconference with the military to whom he addressed on Thanksgiving.
But it wasn’t a long discussion, because Donald Trump got mad pretty quick. In the nearly 25 minutes he spent with the press, Trump took up the allegations of electoral fraud and claimed credit for the coronavirus vaccine being found during his administration.
At one point, he ran towards a reporter who tried to interrupt him while claiming that the vote had been rigged. “You’re not serious. Don’t talk to me like that!” Trump told him, pointing threateningly at his finger. “I am the president of the United States. Never speak to the president like that!” Trump added. Shortly afterwards, he left the press conference.
When will the result of the vote be known in the Electoral College
Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes in states where he has already been declared the winner or is at the forefront of the voters’ choice, which is well above the threshold of 270 electoral votes required to be proclaimed president.
Each state is represented, depending on its population, by a certain number of voters, and the final vote for president is given by the Electoral College, which has 538 voters.
Voters in each state must cast their vote (which is generally in line with the popular vote option) on December 14, and the validated results of this vote must reach the President of the Senate (Vice President Mike Pence, no) by December 23. December.
The January 6, all members of Congress, in the House and Senate, meet in the House of Representatives. The President of the Senate (who is the incumbent Vice President, Mike Pence) presides over the session in which the votes of the Electoral College are read and counted, in alphabetical order, by two persons appointed by the House and the Senate, respectively. They then give the situation to Pence, who announces the results and listens to the objections.
Therefore, there are 538 electoral votes, one for each congressman and senator, plus three for Washington DC.
If no candidate reaches 270 votes, the 435 members of the House decide who will be the president. The chamber has a term of January 20 at noon to make the decision. If you do not elect the president, then the incumbent vice president or the next eligible person in the line of presidential succession will become president.
The new term of the president officially begins on January 21, 2021.
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Editor: Luana Pavaluca
