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The main colleagues of the party of the current president of the United States recognize the electoral victory of Joe Biden. This is a serious blow to Trump.
Close confidants are considered: Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and US President Donald Trump. (November 4, 2019)
Photo: Yuri Gripas (Reuters)
After weeks of reluctance, he has Top Republicans in the United States Senate recognized Joe Biden’s electoral victory over Donald Trump. «The electoral body spoke. So today I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden, “Mitch McConnell, who is considered a close confidant of Trump, said in the Senate on Tuesday. Biden had after the Confirmation of his victory by the electorate on Monday he warned that the United States would have to end the elections. “Now is the time to start a new chapter.” In his Wilmington speech, Biden called on Trump to admit defeat and condemned his attacks on the election as “unscrupulous.”
“Today I would like to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden”
McConnell’s recognition of Biden’s victory comes six weeks after the presidential election. For Trump, however, it remains a severe blow if he continues to blow the wind off his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud. McConnell left no doubt about the legitimacy of the election result. Trump, for his part, stuck to his representation Tuesday that he had been deprived of victory due to massive wrongdoing.
Vote with a lot of weight
“Many millions of us had expected the presidential election to produce a different result,” McConnell said. The country now officially has a president-elect, Biden, and a vice-president-elect, Kamala Harris. “The president-elect is no stranger to the Senate,” McConnell said. Addressing Harris, McConnell said that regardless of their differences, Americans could be proud of that. for the first time a woman in the position of vice president was chosen.
McConnell’s voice carries a lot of weight: His comments could encourage other Republicans to do the same with congratulations. The divisions between Republicans and Democrats run deep: Biden has promised that the country will. It could be that he has no choice but to reach out to Republicans in government. In a second round of elections for two seats in the United States Senate, it will be decided in early January which of the two parties will have control of the powerful House of Parliament.
Biden has 306 voters
In the 50 United States and the Capital District of Washington, the 538 electorate voted for the future president on behalf of the people. Americans elect their president indirectly. In the vast majority of states, the candidate who received the most votes from the people on Election Day receives all the votes from the local electorate. In normal election years, the electoral vote is a formality because the losing candidate generally admits defeat on election night.
Biden received as many electoral votes as Trump in his surprise victory four years ago. At the time he had spoken of a “landslide victory.” “By their own standards, those numbers represented a clear victory back then, and I respectfully suggest that they do so now,” Biden said. Unsurprisingly, Biden got the votes of 306 voters, 36 more than needed for victory. 232 electorates voted for Trump.
Putin congratulates Biden
Following the electoral decision, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Polish Head of State Andrzej Duda and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador also congratulated future US President Biden. Unlike many other heads of state and government, they had waited a long time. Putin wrote that regardless of all the differences, Russia and the United States together could help solve many questions and challenges in the world.
As the electorate continued to vote, Trump announced on Twitter Monday that Attorney General William Barr Resigned to have. The resignation letter published by Trump states that Barr will step down on December 23. Trump had rebuked his minister after he said he had no evidence of massive election fraud. In doing so, he had openly contradicted the claims made by the president. Barr was previously considered a close ally.
Trump continues against the electoral result
Final election results will be officially announced in Congress in Washington on January 6. Biden is due to be sworn in on January 20. On that day, Trump’s constitutional term ends automatically, even if he does not admit defeat. That Biden won has been clear since November 7, when the main US media proclaimed him the winner. The responsible US authorities declared the election the safest in the United States. Trump has announced that he will continue his legal battle.
Neither Trump nor his lawyers or supporters have presented any substantial evidence to back up their allegations of voter fraud. So far more than 50 lawsuits from the Trump camp have been dismissed, two of them before the Supreme Court of the United States. Trump had all avenues open to challenge the result, and the president seized any of those opportunities, Biden said. More than 80 judges across the country heard arguments and dismissed them as unfounded. The renewed vote count would have changed nothing.
“This is an attitude as extreme as we have never seen before”
Biden was stunned by a ultimately unsuccessful lawsuit by the Texas Attorney General in the Supreme Court, supported by Republican justice ministers in 17 states and 126 Republican MPs. The move was aimed at “erasing” the votes of more than 20 million Americans. “It’s an extreme attitude like we’ve never seen before,” Biden said.
