Leaders of the Democratic candidate’s team announced that Joe Biden would speak to the nation tonight, predictably in prime time in the United States (from 1 am in Portugal), but with the votes in Pennsylvania still to be counted and without final official information. this intervention is questioned.
The reason for the announced speech is related to the results in the states of Georgia and Pennsylvania that put Biden ever closer to getting the 270 delegates needed to reach the White House.
Right now, Biden wins Trump by a margin of nine thousand votes in Pennsylvania and by more than 1,500 in Georgia.
Throughout the day, the results in Pennsylvania were increasing the chances of victory for the Democratic candidate who remains in Wilmington, Delaware, while Trump remains in the White House.
Trump’s campaign was suddenly speechless, after several days marked by accusations of the integrity of the election, which even led some Republicans to step aside from the still president.
One of the known cases was the governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, who said there was “no defense for the president’s comments for having undermined the democratic process”: “America is counting the votes and we must respect the results as we have always done”, stressed the Republican.
Through Twitter, Donald Trump promised lawsuits and argued that Biden should not “unduly claim the position of president”.
At 2:30 am on Friday, Trump attacked again, insisting, via Twitter, that the “US Supreme Court must decide!”
The Trump campaign has moved forward with several lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, also requiring a recount of the votes in Wisconsin. However, judges in the three states have already refused the lawsuits.
In a politically divided country, the next president will have several challenges, such as how to fight the covid-19 pandemic.
The United States is the country most affected by the coronavirus, with the highest number of deaths (234,944) and also with more confirmed cases of infection (more than 9.6 million).
The covid-19 pandemic has already caused more than 1.2 million deaths worldwide since December last year, including 2,792 in Portugal.
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