Key State Drama: Trump Headquarters Announces Victory, Though the Countdown Has Not Ended At This Point • The President Also Demands Wisconsin • According to Fox News and CNN, the Democratic candidate wins 264 votes and needs one more state • Ongoing updates The night
US presidential election drama:
Hours pass, votes are counted - but the election campaign remains close, with the two candidates hoping to cross the 270-seat line and serve as president for the next four years and each country could be the key state. Israel Today regularly updates the dramatic election In the US.
Photo: Reuters
Regular updates - minute by minute (Israel time):
23:50: Approaching a decision?
Fox News joins CNN and gives Biden a win in Michigan.
According to this forecast, the Democratic candidate wins 264 electors compared to 214 for Trump.
In such a situation, Biden needs one more state to get 270 electors.
23:21:
CNN estimates Joe Biden will win in Key State Michigan (16 electors).
According to the news network, in the current situation Biden with 253 electors and Trump with 213. Remember, in order to win, the candidate needs 270 electors.
23:15:
Joe Biden delivered a speech to the nation and responded to the dramatic developments: "The people are in control. His power cannot be taken away. His will determines who will be president. Now, after a long night of counting, it's clear we're leading. I'm not saying we won, But I do say that we believe that at the end of the count we will be the winners.
10:45 p.m .:
After President Trump sought to halt the vote count in Pennsylvania, the president's chief of staff announced a victory in the electorate - even though no media network has declared victory for either side.
22:25:
Trump's headquarters are about to appeal the ruling of the Pennsylvania court, which approved counting votes in the state that were received in the mail after the polls closed.
The president himself noted regarding the state "" We are winning in Pennsylvania by and large, but the secretary of state claims there are millions of votes left to count in it. "
We are winning Pennsylvania big, but the PA Secretary of State just announced that there are "Millions of ballots left to be counted."
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 4, 2020
21:45:
Trump wins Maine's fourth electorate, after Biden wins the top three.
21:00
due to allegations of forgery,
Trump's headquarters are demanding a halt to the vote count in Michigan. A statement from the Republican Party said: "While the votes in Michigan continue to be counted, the results in the state continue to be close, as we expected them to be.
Trump campaign says it has filed a lawsuit in Michigan to “halt counting ...” pic.twitter.com/i4qEhJ7ckA
- Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 4, 2020
"The president's staff has not been given adequate access to dozens of polling stations and its representatives cannot estimate the counting process as required by Michigan law. The president is committed to every kosher vote being counted - in Michigan, or anywhere else. "
In addition to the announcement, Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is expected to arrive in Michigan to conduct legal proceedings on the matter.
20:45:
Republican Sen. Suzanne Collins of Maine, whom Democrats had hoped to replace in a left-leaning state, maintained a seat in the Senate.
20:35:
80% of votes in Pennsylvania were counted, Trump leads by about 460,000 votes;
Michigan: 94 percent of the vote was counted, with Biden leading the state by about 45,000 votes.
20:24:
Republican Party leader Rona McDaniel has expressed confidence that President Trump will win in Georgia and estimates that the next vote to be counted in Arizona will change the trend in the country.
She also noted that there are still chances of winning in Nevada and Pennsylvania as well
20:10:
Joe Biden won more than 69,589,840 million votes at the national level, thus breaking the previous record set by former President Barack Obama.
19:47:
Trump staff announces that he is going to demand a recount in Wisconsin.
7:40
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Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has denied allegations Trump wants to prevent a vote and said, "The president wants every legal vote counted, but voting was supposed to end on election night," he added, adding that he was happy with the Republican Party's victories. In the House of Representatives.
19:28:
For the third time since the election, Twitter posted a misleading warning about President Trump's tweet.
19:11:
Trump blames - "They are working to quickly erase the advantage we got in Pennsylvania and Michigan."
They are working hard to make up 500,000 vote advantage in Pennsylvania disappear - ASAP.
Likewise, Michigan and others!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 4, 2020
19:10: The
state of Maine, which is one of only two states in the U.S. that splits its electors by turnout, has given three of its four electors to Joe Biden. No decision has yet been made regarding the fourth electorate.
18:56:
Trump responded to reports of Biden's victory in Wisconsin and said - "They find votes in favor of Biden everywhere, in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, a disaster for our state."
They are finding Biden votes all over the place - in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
So bad for our Country!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 4, 2020
18:50:
Report - All the votes in the state of Wisconsin have been counted, Biden leads by about 20,000 votes and will probably win the state's ten electors.
WATCH: "All of the ballots have indeed been counted," Wisconsin Elections Commission Director Meagan Wolfe says.
"We're not seeing that there's any counties that haven't posted their results on their websites."
Track latest Wisconsin results here: https://t.co/44xFW1WkYJ pic.twitter.com/KJlQvDtzRC
- NBC News (@NBCNews) November 4, 2020
18:45: The
Secretary of State of Michigan said she believes there will be no final results in the state by the end of the day (US time).
18:35:
About 23 million people in the United States watched the election broadcasts last night.
This is according to the "The Wrap" network in Hollywood.
18:05:
Trump headquarters estimate that they will win in Nevada and Pennsylvania and claim that Arizona has not yet been decided in favor of Biden.
17:59:
Governor of Pennsylvania - "Every vote will be counted, even if it takes a long time."
17:52:
Biden's campaign team claims the former vice president is on his way to victory.
"Biden is on the road to victory and he will be the next president of the United States," said campaign director Jen Dillon. "We believe we are on the road to victory that will be announced later this afternoon."
Dylan added that even if the vote count were stopped, Biden would win the presidency at this point.
17:51:
Twitter marked President Trump's tweet, in which he claims that the late vote leading to fraud contains "misleading information."
This is the second time since the Twitter election that France has issued a warning label for the president's tweet.
5:15 p.m .:
Biden responded to Trump's allegations of post-election fraud and the president's call to stop the vote count, saying: "We will not rest until every vote is counted."
We will not rest until everyone's vote is counted.
Tune in as my campaign manager @jomalleydillon and campaign adviser Bob Bauer give an update on where the race stands.
https://t.co/Rwz4iR25B3
- Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 4, 2020
17:05:
Trump accused Democrats of cheating on Twitter, claiming: "Yesterday I led steadily in many key countries - and in almost every one of them that has a Democratic governor, that has changed surprisingly, very strangely."
Trump further attacked the pollsters, saying they were "absolutely and historically" wrong.
Trump added, wondering: "But the fact that every time you count a pile of votes from the mail, you get devastating results."
Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled.
Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted.
VERY STRANGE, and the “pollsters” got it completely & historically wrong!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 4, 2020
How come every time they count Mail-In ballot dumps they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction?
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 4, 2020
16:40 - The
morning after the US election opens with gains in the US stock exchanges. The Dow Jones index opened with an increase of about 1%, the Nasdaq jumps by about 3%, Apple shares rise by 3% and Amazon more than 4% .
16:20 - Drama in Michigan:
Democratic candidate Joe Biden passed President Trump by 0.2 percent after counting 90 percent of the vote.
A very close battle over the country's 16 electors.
15:55 -
Over 160 million residents of the United States have already voted, and 85% of the votes were counted.
According to them, Biden leads with 69,355,184 votes nationwide compared to 67,008,852 for President Trump.
14:43
- After counting 97% of the votes in Wisconsin, the difference between Biden and Trump stands at 0.7% in favor of the Democratic candidate in the battle for the state's ten electors.
2pm
- Chris Christie, a former New Jersey Gov. and former associate of Trump, came out against the remarks of the US president, who called for a halt to the U.S.-wide vote count. , He said in an interview with ABC.
I think he damaged his credibility by paying attention to that flaw. "
13:52
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Will
Biden make a comeback in Michigan?
After counting 90 percent of the vote in the key state, which grants 16 voters, the Democratic candidate narrowed the gap from President Trump to only about 12,000 votes.
12:52
- The state of Colorado voted against the bill banning abortions beyond the 22nd week.
12:50
- Voters in Arizona, New Jersey and South Carolina voted to allow recreational marijuana use - while South Carolina also approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes.
In doing so, South Carolina is the first state in the United States to simultaneously approve drug use for both of these purposes.
12:45 - Nevada will not publish results updates until tomorrow: The
state of Nevada has announced that it will not publish its election results until tomorrow at 9:00 (local time).
So far, in Nevada, the votes of voters who came to vote at the election day itself and in the early voting and all the ballot papers that came in by November 2 have been counted.
The votes of envelopes received on Election Day and envelopes to be received in the coming days have not yet been counted.
Currently, after counting 86% of the votes in Nevada (its 6 electors), Biden is gaining an advantage of less than 8,000 votes over Biden.
11:54
- U.S. report: Biden gains a small advantage over Trump in Wisconsin.
11:40 -
CNN: Joe Biden wins in Hawaii.
11 a.m. - Biden responds to Trump -
Joe Biden's election headquarters said that "if Trump appeals the election results and asks to stop counting the votes - we will form a legal team to prevent the move."
10:10
- The governor of Pennsylvania announced on his Twitter account: "There are over a million votes yet to be counted."
10am
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After conflicting reports -
News Agency reports: Joe Biden has won in Arizona.
09:27
- Trump in the White House: "We win in Pennsylvania by a huge margin."
09:25 -
President Trump in a special statement at the White House: "We are preparing for a big celebration, the results are amazing."
08:58 - New York Times Report -
Blue Georgia.
According to polls, there is a 63% chance of Biden's victory in the country.
08:20 - Nebraska is divided.
Fox News reports that the five electors in the state have been divided between the two candidates - four electors for Trump and one for Baiden (Nebraska and Maine are the only states that divide electors by district).
08:00 - Voting in the US is over. The
last polling station in Alaska has closed.