Washington-SANA
As the polls close and the vote count begins, the conflict rages between US Republican President Donald Trump and his rival, Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
According to the latest statistics, Biden leads the number of votes in the electoral college with 209 votes, against Trump with 204 votes.
The United States uses a system known as the "Electoral College", which includes 538 votes .. While the candidate who collects 270 votes does not always win the elections, the one who achieves the largest number of popular votes at the national level wins.
According to observers, it is not possible to determine the winner in the American elections so far, despite the progress of one of the competitors over the other from one moment to the next, while the results were decided in a number of states, where Trump won in Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma and Carolina Southern Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming and Ohio, while Biden won each of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Washington, DC, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington state.
The state of Nebraska adopts a system different from other states in distributing the votes of major voters to candidates, which will allow Biden to obtain at least one of the votes of the state's five delegates.
The media indicated that the election race will not be decided in many states before this evening due to the intensity of competition and the intensity of voting.
On the other hand, with regard to the Senate and House elections, the Republicans have so far won 45 seats in the Senate elections compared to 44 for the Democrats, as well as 147 seats so far in the House of Representatives, compared to 129 for the Democrats.
Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, Democrat in his state, beat outgoing Republican Corey Gardner for a seat in the Senate.
On the other hand, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of Trump, kept his seat from South Carolina in the midterm elections, defeating Democratic candidate Jaime Haar.
On the other hand, the Democrats retained their control over the US House of Representatives, and even strengthened this majority in the midterm elections that took place on Tuesday, in conjunction with the presidential elections, according to estimates reported by Fox News and ABC.
According to these estimates, the Democrats will win between four and five additional seats in the 435-seat House, knowing that they currently occupy 232 of its seats.