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In the state of Pennsylvania, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has bypassed President Donald Trump and leads at eleven o’clock Swedish time Friday night with 13,662 votes.
In the state of Georgia, the situation is extremely balanced. With 99 percent of the votes counted on Friday night Swedish time, an hour before midnight, Trump and Biden have 49.4 percent, but Biden has taken the lead with 1,598 more votes.
However, the margins are extremely small and important votes have yet to be counted.
– No one is really happy because there are no definitive answers, says SVT correspondent Fouad Youcefi, who is in Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.
“The feelings on the outside”
He explains that many Americans are upset because they feel that, as President Donald Trump has said, election results are being stolen from them. Others are outraged that they believe the president is making unsubstantiated accusations of electoral fraud.
– The feelings are really on the outside. It’s an emotional wait according to the best Hollywood script, says Fouad Youcefi.
But the result can take a long time. In Georgia, the state election authority has announced that it will recalculate votes because the margin between candidates is less than 0.5 percentage points.
In Pennsylvania, the director of elections, Lisa M. Deeley, has announced that the final result of the election may take several days as there are still some 40,000 votes to count.
Waiting impatiently among the voters
SVT correspondent Stefan Åsberg is in Washington and says the large number of early voting has put a lot of pressure on the electoral authorities.
– An American told me, “enough is enough, give us a result”, and there is something in that, he says.
In other parts of the United States there is also an impatient wait.
– Regardless of who wins, we still have to go to work tomorrow morning. We still have to be together and we still have to pay our bills, New York voter Umberto told Reuters on Wednesday, the day after the election.
