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On Sunday, five days after the presidential election, the count continued in some states. But the pace had slowed when provisional votes, those whose legality was checked twice, were added to the total.
On Monday, Donald Trump’s re-election campaign launches a legal offensive against the elections, in several of the states that were last decided, especially in Pennsylvania.
At least that’s what the president promised in an irate statement after mainstream media outlets declared Biden the winner of the election on Saturday.
Has many that they speculate that Trump may, as the first US president in history, leave office without admitting defeat, without congratulating his opponent.
On Sunday, the president went to another round of golf. His tone had softened a bit. It is true that some Twitter messages in the morning were about the vote count, but without direct attacks on Biden.
CNN sources claim that both Trump’s wife Melania and his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner have already asked Trump to admit defeat. Other sources tell Fox News that the president will resign as soon as he learns more about the ongoing court proceedings.
There are many indications that the circle around Trump is waiting for electoral defeat to “sink” into the president’s conscience, and that this may take a few more days.
The vote count has been debated in several major states.
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At the same time it is clear that Biden’s election victory is certainly not overwhelming, but not nearly as close as it first seemed.
On Sunday, most of the media gave him 279 electoral votes, with four states still undecided. If you win the states you lead in, you will get 306 voters, which is the same number that Trump won in 2016.
In that case, it has managed to seize five states from Republicans compared to the last election, including traditionally “red” states like Georgia and Arizona, while winning by far the number of votes overall.
Opinion guru Nate Silver believes Joe Biden will get 81.8 million votes to 74.9 million for Trump, a margin of nearly 7 million.
“It is significant because no candidate has ever received 70 million votes; Obama was the closest in 2008 with 69.5 million,” Silver wrote on his Fivethirtyeight site.
Total participation in the presidential elections it can remain around 65 percent, which is better than in 120 years.
The high number of votes is also one of the reasons why the bill has been so slow. Another is, of course, the high proportion of votes by mail.
Has there also been electoral fraud? Sure, there are occasional examples of that, but Donald Trump’s claims about large-scale manipulation, about the votes of the deceased and other things, there is no evidence whatsoever.
For the most part, they appear to be unconfirmed rumors.
Significant is the case with a poll worker in Atlanta, Georgia, who was filmed crumpling up a piece of paper that he later tossed in the trash.
The man was accused of discarding valid votes and allowed to go into hiding after the video was released online. But what he threw away turned out to be a piece of paper with instructions on how to vote that was in the same envelope as the ballot.
The Trump campaign has a “hotline” you can go to with information about voter fraud. There is a great risk that Trump’s lawyers will have to deal with cases similar to the one in Atlanta.
And anyway there is no chance that lawyers will find something that affects the outcome of the elections.
The same applies to the recalculation that will take place in multiple states. The result will not be significantly affected. Biden’s victory remains.
