All hanging on vote by mail, as expected. Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Georgia: this is where we continue to count card by card, and the election of the president depends on these states Joe Biden O Donald Trump. The Democratic candidate is one step away from reaching the quota of 270 great voters necessary to set foot in Oval Office of the White House. And it would do it with the full marks never obtained from an American president, since at the moment he has cashed 72 million, well beyond the record of Barack Obama which in 2008 received 69.5 million preferences and 65.8 million Hillary Clinton. But compared to 4 years ago Trump – so far – he has obtained over 5 million more preferences, reaching 68.3 million compared to 62.9 in 2016. After a departure that saw Biden giving way to the successes of the president in office, the race between the two rivals was then stabilized on a head to head played on the wire until the last.
To mark the comeback of Biden after the initial lead of Trump it was the postal vote, which method the president has been denigrating for months, airing preventive hypotheses of fraud and plots. And today on Twitter it goes further, even inviting to stop the counting of the ballots, when the count is still in progress and declaring that “all votes arrived after election day will not be counted”. Boutade far from the rules of American democracy – and branded as “misleading” by Twitter -, which provides for the counting of all the cards sent byElection day.
STOP THE COUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2020
Now, conquered Michigan e Wisconsin, for a total booty of 26 electors, to the former deputy of Obama there are only 17 points left to conquer the White House. Those who can give him Arizona e Nevada, not yet assigned but where it enjoys a rather reassuring advantage. In Nevada, in particular, it is prevailing over its rival with growing numbers. Without forgetting that theearly vote – that is, the vote in person or by post of the voters who decided to choose their candidate before Election day – also allowed them to make an incredible comeback in Georgia e Pennsylvania, two states that were now given up for lost. Especially in the first, which counts as many as 16 electors now the distance is just 16 thousand votes in favor of Trump. In case of victory here too, the dem candidate could win a bigger victory than the one predicted yesterday. Eyes on the Georgia where the counting is still in progress and we are head to head with 98% of the ballots scrutinized.
Pending the final result, there was neither thered wave announced by the Republican candidate nor the blue wall hoped for by the Democrats and speculated by the polls. The former deputy of Barack Obama succeeded in the comeback thanks to ballots of the vote by mail, to which millions of Americans, never more than this year, have resorted to cause Covid. Trump immediately went on the counterattack, speaking of “Card dumps” and announcing appeals to the Supreme Court. All while his supporters and those of Biden they staged protests from Detroit a New York e Phoenix. Hundreds of arrests, many of which a Minneapolis, city where George Floyd was killed and the heart of the protests of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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19.14 – Trump’s advantage in Pennsylvania tapers
The president currently has a margin of 115,000 votes, compared to the 600,000 recorded as his greatest advantage since the opening of the polls. Postal votes still missing to count could further reduce Trump’s lead. The state assigns 20 electoral votes, which could be decisive for the final outcome of the elections.
18.35 – Pennsylvania, Supreme Court rejects pro-Trump decision
The judges overturned the decision of a lower court that authorized representatives of the Trump campaign to personally witness the counting of votes by mail in Philadelphia. The journalist from Nbc News Maura Barrett, Meanwhile, pending the ruling of the Supreme Court, urged by the Democrats, the counting of the votes in Philadelphia had been stopped. According to reports from Barrett, he would now be resumed.
18.25 – Judge in Georgia dismisses Trump’s appeal against the count of fifty postal votes
According to Atalanta’s WSB broadcaster, Chatham County Judge James Bass dismissed the appeal after election bureau officials proved that all votes were legitimate and arrived on schedule.
18.14 – Biden avanza su Trump in Nevada
Joe Biden is ahead in Nevada by 12,000 votes over Donald Trump. CNN reports this, underlining that the Democrat is stretching on the president. In fact, the latest survey granted him an advantage of 7,000 cards. It is now at + 1%.
17.21 – Joe Biden’s campaign expects to win Pennsylvania
CNN reports it citing some sources from the former vice president’s campaign who believes he can win the state by a considerable margin.
5.15pm – Pennsylvania prosecutor against Trump: “All votes will be counted”
Faced with statements by the president on the stop of ballot counts, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro rejects Trump’s lawsuit. “The electoral campaign is over, the votes have been cast and now it’s time to count them and respect the will of the voters. I will not allow anyone to stop the counting process. These are legal votes and will be counted, ”he said.
14.56 – In Georgia there are only 50,000 votes to count
Once the tally is complete the picture could be clearer to allow American networks to project a winner between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, separated by a few thousand votes in what is one of the key states in the White House race. Trump is ahead with 49.6%, Biden has 49.2%.
15.33 – Trump wants to start legal action also in Nevada
According to rumors reported by Fox, the president’s staff are preparing to announce an appeal claiming that about 10,000 people in the state have voted illegally.
11:50 – Biden’s comeback in Georgia: it will be a head to head final
Incredible comeback of Joe Biden in Georgia where, with 96% of the ballots scrutinized, Donald Trump’s advantage over the Dem candidate has now been reduced to 0.4%, with a difference, in terms of absolute votes, of just 18 thousand votes, with just over 200 thousand cards still to be counted.
9:30 – Cnn: “Biden’s advantage in Arizona is reduced”
Joe Biden’s advantage over Donald Trump in Arizona, considered a Republican fiefdom but ‘assigned’ to the Democratic candidate yesterday, is reduced by over 10 thousand votes. According to the latest data reported by Cnn in the state’s largest county, Maricopa County, the former vice president got 912,585 votes against the 838,071 cast for the tycoon, while the previous count gave Biden 887,457 votes and Trump 802,160. We therefore pass from a gap of almost 85,300 preferences to just over 74,500 votes of difference.
7:49 – Republican majority in Senate at risk
The Republican majority in the Senate is at risk in light of the data coming from Georgia, where a ballot could be used for both seats up for grabs. What is worrying above all is the seat occupied by the Republican David Perdue, outgoing candidate, who with 3% of the votes still to be scrutinized, reduced his consent to 50.07%. Falling below 50% would force Perdue to run away as will happen in the other seat of the state where the Democrat Raphael Warnock obtained 32.6% against 26.11% of outgoing senator Kelly Loeffler. In the event of a double defeat, the possibility of a tie could be envisaged, which would put the Republicans in serious difficulty, especially in the event of Biden presidency: in fact, the leadership of the Senate is formally entrusted to the vice president with the right to vote in the event of a tie.
01:28 – Trump mad at Murdoch because Fox gives Arizona to Biden
Trump’s fury against Rupert Murdoch. According to rumors reported by the American media, the president called the publisher furious on election night after Fox had determined that Joe Biden was the winner of Arizona. Screaming he would ask Murdoch to order his people to step back and retract the state. However, the publisher refused. Protests and tensions took place in the capital Phoenix by Trump supporters.
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