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The votes of the electorate in the states of the United States and in the capital district of Washington have confirmed the victory of Democrat Joe Biden over current Donald Trump in the presidential elections. Democrat Biden (78) got 306 votes, as expected based on certified state results after the November 3 election. Republican Trump (74) managed to unite 232 votes. Biden wanted to comment on his election victory on Monday night (local time).
The electorate’s vote in California raised Biden above the threshold of the 270 votes needed Monday night, as Hawaii was the last state to seal the final result. The president is indirectly elected in the United States: the total of 538 voters vote on behalf of the people. In the vast majority of states, the winner of the election gets all the votes of the local electorate. In Monday’s vote there were no dissenters, all voters voted in accordance with the results, thus dashing the vague hopes of some Trump supporters that the election result could still be overturned in this way.
The official final result of the presidential election will be announced in Congress in Washington on January 6. Biden will be sworn in on January 20 in the capital. On that day, Trump’s term ends automatically, even if he doesn’t admit defeat. That Biden won the election has been clear since November 7, when the mainstream American media, as is customary in the United States, proclaimed him the winner.
Voting the electorate is a formality in normal election years because the losing candidate often admits defeat on election night. Trump still claims that he actually won the election and presents himself as the victim of massive electoral fraud. Many Republicans, including the party’s top colleagues in the US Congress, have yet to publicly acknowledge Biden as the winner of the election.
With a wave of lawsuits, Trump and his allies tried to tilt the election result in favor of the incumbent. Neither he, nor his lawyers nor his followers have provided evidence to support his far-reaching allegations. More than 50 lawsuits have already failed. Last Friday, the Washington Supreme Court also dismissed a lawsuit aimed at overturning Biden’s victory in four states. Trump had declared then that he did not want to give up the legal fight against his defeat yet. (nim / SDA)
