11/03/2020 10:13 PM
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Updated 11/03/2020 10:13 PM
According to the first results of the presidential elections in the United States, Joe Biden and Donald Trump share the victories in
the first states that already have results.
Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Virginia, Vermont and Georgia were the first states to vote in a day that already has more than 100 million people who voted early by mail or in person.
It was an uneventful and uneventful day, with both candidates confident of winning.
Americans on Tuesday elected the man who will lead the White House for the next four years.
They were elections with a record participation, both in the polls and in the votes that were made in advance and that exceeded the barrier of
100 million.
The winner's name is already on the polls and a long and tense night is coming.
There is already the name of the president who in one way or another will face a health crisis unprecedented in modern history, with the coronavirus pandemic still at its peak in the United States.
The long election night of Donald Trump and Joe Biden, however, is the most uncertain in history, a hectic wait: In fact, Election Day opened with the Democratic candidate favored in all the major polls, but the president believes firmly on his re-election and ensures that all goes well.
A whole country glued to the TV screen is waiting for the final results, knowing that it is at the crossroads between two visions of the future, never so totally opposite this time.
Protesters gather in front of the White House, waiting for the election results.
Photo EFE.
In polling hours, with polling places opening first on the east coast and then gradually in every other state to the west coast and the extreme tip of Alaska, the two candidates launched the final calls.
Joe Biden did it first from his Wilmington, Delaware, where he lives, then from Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he was born: "I am a Democrat but I will govern as American President."
"I will work with Democrats and Republicans and also for those who do not support. Because this is the job of a president," he almost roared.
Trump, throughout the day within the walls of the White House, continued to flaunt his security, saying that he was
confident of a new triumph
as in 2016 over Hillary Clinton.
VOTE!
VOTE!
VOTE! Pic.twitter.com/85ySh1KYkh
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2020
Perhaps losing the popular vote, but winning the decisive party in the ten key states of this 2020. Until the end, the president waved the spectrum of the disputed elections and promised to battle against the risk of millions and millions of votes in the mail still to be counting at the close of the polls, especially in decisive states like Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida.
"America has the right to know the winner on election day," he continued repeating, explaining a few hours after the first results that he still does not think of a speech in the event of victory or to accept a possible defeat.
Elections in the United States.
Photo EFE.
However, Democrats have been developing a plan B for some time, which could be unleashed in the face of chaos: "The United States House of Congress is ready to decide the outcome of the presidential election if the results are not accepted and if on January 6 there is still no clear result, "said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"We are prepared for this hypothesis," he added, "because we see the irresponsibility of the president and his failure to comply with the Constitution, democracy and the integrity of the vote."
Meanwhile, in Washington, New York and many other cities, the alert is heightened due to fear of protests that could lead to riots and violence.
The police are lined up en masse and the men of the National Guard ready to be deployed and intervene if the situation worsens and degenerates.
After all, for days there has been news almost everywhere of fights and vandalism, with dozens of arrests.