GAt 2:20 a.m. local time, US President Donald Trump appeared in front of his supporters in the White House – at the latest press conference of his life, as he noted. It turned out to be a speech steeped in history. A speech that was immediately described by experts as a low point in the history of American democracy.
Trump listed states that the Republicans supposedly won, such as Georgia and North Carolina. However, the counting of votes is still ongoing there. In view of delays in an election result, he spoke of “massive fraud” that he would go to the Supreme Court, the country’s highest court, to stop the further counting of absentee votes. “We don’t want them to find ballot papers at four in the morning and add them to the list.”
The US President also claimed the victory overall for himself. “We were ready to win this election. In all honesty: We have now won this election. ”
Legally, Trump’s declaration of victory has no relevance. Trump said he was close to partying. But then a “very sad group” would have tried to take the votes away from him.
The Biden team criticized Trump’s statements as “scandalous”. The legal experts are prepared for a judicial dispute. Joe Biden had previously called on his supporters to be patient in a speech in Wilmington, Delaware. It could take a while for a result to be established. “It’s not over until every vote has been counted.”
Mathematically, both candidates still have the chance to win the election. Nonetheless, the Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa Trump has already congratulated Trump on his election victory.
The governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, protested against his allegations after Trump’s speech. On Twitter he wrote: “Let’s be clear: this is a partisan attack on the Pennsylvania elections, our votes and democracy. Our counties work tirelessly to process votes as quickly and accurately as possible. Pennsylvania will have fair elections and we will count every vote. ”He said the US state has more than a million postal votes yet to be counted.
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Donald Trump first spoke out on Twitter at 0.46 a.m. local time and already declared there: “A great victory!”
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In another tweet, Trump accused the Democrats of “stealing” the election victory. “We will not allow that.”
Immediately after the tweet, the US online service Twitter provided this statement with a warning.
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Both Trump and Biden have so far been able to achieve some important partial successes: US stations announced a victory for Trump in the important states of Florida and Ohio. Without Florida, Trump would have had virtually no chance of a second term.
Biden wins here, Trump wins here
Biden won in Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and the District of Columbia. All of these results were largely as expected.
Den Sieg für Trump verkündeten US-Sender in Texas, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia und Wyoming.
In Florida, an important state with 29 voters, Trump did well, according to the US media, especially in districts with a high proportion of Latino people. In populous Miami-Dade County, in particular, his challenger Biden received fewer votes than he would likely need to win the state. There were also signs of benefits for Trump in North Carolina and Georgia. The Republican depends on the states to win, and Biden could win the election without them. To become president, a candidate needs the votes of at least 270 electoral voters from the states.
That is why the count is so difficult
Because of the corona pandemic, it is difficult this year to assess the count status during election night. Many Biden supporters had declared that they wanted to vote by postal vote. Trump’s supporters wanted to vote on election day. The states have different methods of counting which votes when, so that large swings are still possible during election night.
In the evening it seemed possible that the count would take even longer in some important locations in these states. Journalists from large cities in the still open states of Georgia and Pennsylvania have reported to the short message service Twitter that counting will not continue until after the night. A statistician on Fox TV said that he no longer expected a result from Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin or Pennsylvania that night.
In Pittsburgh and the rest of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, election officials want to meet again from 10 a.m. local time (4 p.m. CET). There had been reports from Philadelphia that results could be announced there again from 9 a.m. In Atlanta in the state of Georgia it should not continue until the morning.
In some states of the USA, the evaluation of postal votes may only begin on election day, which leads to delays. In some cases, the comparison of signatures with the electoral roll is mandatory. In some other states, votes received a few days after the election are also counted. This is where the postmark counts, which must be on election day at the latest. The election officers of several states in the Midwest had announced in advance that the correct count could take a few days.
