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Video report from ITV News Washington correspondent Robert Moore
Joe biden urged the United States to “remain calm” as “all ballots must be counted” after Donald trump claimed that he will legally challenge all the states claimed by the Democrat who has won in the United States presidential elections.
Biden, who has received more than 71,000,000 votes, the most votes in American history, is moving toward the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
In a press conference on Thursday, Biden said: “In the United States a vote is sacred and that is how the people in the country express their will and it is the will of the voters, no one and nothing else elects the president of the United States . States of America “.
“So every ballot must be counted and that is what we will see now.”
He added: “And that’s the way it should be, democracy is sometimes messy but sometimes it requires a little patience and that patience has now been rewarded for more than 240 years with a governance system that has been the envy of the world.”
“Senator Harris and I feel really good about where things are and when the count is up, Senator Harris and I will be declared winners.”
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Biden’s comments come as Donald Trump’s campaign team presented new legal challenges in three key states on the battlefield of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia.
However, those from Michigan and Georgia were expelled on Thursday, allowing the vote counting to continue.
Trump tweeted: “All the states that Biden recently claimed will be legally challenged by us for voter fraud and state election fraud. Lots of evidence, just check the media. WE WILL WIN! America First!”
The president has made repeated, unsubstantiated claims that the vote count was fraudulent, but Democrats say Trump is trying to distract attention from his likely loss to Biden by repeatedly announcing the lawsuit.
The new documents filed by Trump’s team, adding to existing Republican legal challenges in Pennsylvania and Nevada.
Republicans demand better access for campaign observers to venues where the ballots are processed and counted, and raised concerns about the absentee ballot, the campaign said.
There was a small victory for Trump’s legal team on Thursday when they received a court order giving them permission to enter and observe the count in Pennsylvania from a distance of six feet.
Trump referred to a “great legal victory in Pennsylvania,” which appeared to refer to the ruling, but did not provide specific context.
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When could a winner be announced?
Joe Biden and Donald Trump are in 253 and 213 electoral college votes respectively, with most of the projections of results already requested.
the The winner must secure 270 votes in the electoral college to win the presidency. – the remaining states that have yet to be announced each have a different amount of those votes.
Projections have not yet been made for six states, including the remaining four key battlefield states of Pennsylvania, Arizona, North Carolina, and Georgia.
Of these states, Pennsylvania is worth 20, Arizona is worth 11, North Carolina is worth 15, and Georgia is worth 16 electoral college votes.
Biden increased his lead in Nevada, when the latest figures were announced Thursday, to boost his hopes of winning the state.
If Biden is able to keep Nevada for Democrats and turn Arizona from blue to red, that would be enough to secure the necessary 270 electoral college votes to become the 46th president of the United States.
It also has other routes to the White House.
Pennsylvania authorities have said the result could be delayed until Thursday, possibly even Friday, as election officials continue to count the ballots.
Biden is closing the gap with Trump and Democrats are confident of winning in the state.
Until either candidate has enough 270 votes in the electoral college, the outcome will remain unclear.
Even after one of the candidates reaches 270, there could be counts in states that are close by and possibly even a legal battle in the Supreme Court.
The Trump campaign is also seeking to intervene in a Pennsylvania Supreme Court case over whether ballots received up to three days after the election can be counted, said deputy campaign manager Justin Clark.
But the Pennsylvania attorney general told the Supreme Court on Thursday that he opposes the Trump campaign joining a pending dispute over late ballots in the Commonwealth.
The Trump campaign is also expected to request a recount in Wisconsin.
Campaign manager Bill Stepien cited “irregularities in multiple Wisconsin counties,” without providing details.
Ahead of Biden’s projected victory in Michigan, Stepien said in a statement: “Today we have filed a lawsuit in the Michigan Court of Claims to stop the count until meaningful access has been granted.”
Deputy Campaign Manager Justin Clark said in a statement that the campaign “is suing to prevent Democratic election officials from hiding the counting and processing of ballots from our Republican election observers.”
Protests have erupted in cities across the country, including in New York, Minneapolis, Oregon, Seattle, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix and California, as the country awaits a definitive answer on who will be its commander-in-chief. the next four years.
Both Trump and Biden have claimed to be winning since voting ended Tuesday, with the president making the unsubstantiated claim that there is “fraud against the American nation” surrounding the vote.
Donald Trump claims ‘fraud’ and says ‘we won this election’
Trump has said in a series of tweets, which have been flagged as “misleading” by the social media company, accusing Democrats of cheating and unfounded reports that ballots were thrown.
the coronavirus The pandemic has registered a record 102 million mail-in and absentee votes cast before or during Election Day.
These types of votes take longer to count and verify, adding to the longer-than-normal delay in results.
Fierce elections and the long process of results have added to tensions on the streets of some American cities.
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