Waiting for some key states to count the ballots arrived by post,
the verdict
from which the next president of the United States will come out
is destined to
postpone
.
Dem Joe Biden calls for patience, asking to count every vote.
But Trump is not there and attacks: he points the finger at the states where the ballot will continue when he was ready to celebrate the victory, speaks of 'fraud' and threatens to go to the Supreme Court, where 6 out of 9 judges are Republican appointed.
Biden's staff deem his words 'scandalous and unprecedented' and let it be known that he has lawyers ready to oppose him.
A small number of battleground states will decide the US elections:
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia and North Carolina.
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.
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Biden overtakes Trump in Michigan. Tycoon is surprised -
Trump on Twitter returns to stir the specter of fraud, possibly commenting on Joe Biden's recovery in states like Michigan and Wisconsin.
"Last night - he says - I was ahead, often firmly, in many key states, in almost all those governed and controlled by the Democrats. Then, one by one, the advantages magically disappeared, when landfills of surprise cards. Very strange. "
Trump then attacks the pollsters: "Once again they are completely wrong!".
Meanwhile, Twitter reports Trump's twittering.
But Biden's staff are confident.
"We are confident that Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States."
This was stated by Jen O'Malley Dillon, the former vice president's campaign manager.
"Trump risks an embarrassing defeat if he goes to the Supreme Court for elections," says the Democratic campaign.
And Biden warns: "We will not have peace until every vote is counted".
Arm wrestling between Republicans and Democrats in the Election Night in the US that closes without an official winner waiting for the ballots arriving by post to be counted in some key states in the coming days.
"We must be patient and wait for all the votes to be counted", commented Joe Biden, saying he is confident in his victory: "We are on the right path, but it is not up to me or Trump to decide who won this election. to you, to the people ".
But Donald Trump is not there
, and he made it clear by presenting himself shortly after two in the morning (in Italy it was 8.30) to the approximately 250 supporters invited to the White House and crowded in the East Room, with the first family in the front row. : "I thank the Americans, we have won everywhere, we are facing phenomenal results", he exulted.
Then he pointed the finger at the states where the ballot will continue, from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, from Wisconsin to Michigan: "They are trying to steal the elections from us," he said, echoing a tweet that had earlier been censored by social media as " controversial and misleading ".
"This is a fraud for the Americans and an embarrassment for the country. We will go to the Supreme Court", then promised the president, well aware that in this case a High Court with six out of three judges appointed conservative will judge, thanks to the recent new entry by Amy Comey Barrett.
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Donald Trump's campaign says he is
confident about
the
outcome
of the election result: the president is in a "very, very, very good position" this morning.
Trump - explains Bill Stepien, campaign manager - appears well positioned in Georgia, where "we have faith in numbers".
Wisconsin, on the other hand, is more complicated, which could be in "recounting territory" for votes.
Trump's statement
was "scandalous and unprecedented,"
says Joe Biden's campaign, commenting on the president's words on the election count.
"It is scandalous because it is an effort to wrest their democratic rights from American citizens. It is unprecedented because never in history has a president tried to stifle the voice of Americans in a national election," Biden's campaign explains.
"If the president decides to follow up on his threat,
we have legal teams ready to resist his attempt
."
Newly re-elected Democratic MP Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez attacks Donald Trump's "premature" claims about his alleged victory calling them "illegitimate, dangerous and authoritarian".
"We count the votes and respect the results," he writes on Twitter.
Donald Trump's premature claims of victory are illegitimate, dangerous, and authoritarian.
Count the votes.
Respect the results.
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 4, 2020
At this point in the ballot Biden
appears slightly ahead on the front of the electoral count, but among the key states for the moment he has managed to win only Arizona (but the result is disputed by Trump) and to conquer Virginia.
The president, on the other hand, ripped up Florida, Ohio, Iowa and kept Texas.
From the projections he is then ahead in Georgia and in all the states where the votes will still be counted, with the prospect of rebuilding that 'red wall' that already won him in 2016. The unknown factor is precisely that of the votes by mail that in some of these states they may reverse the outcome, traditionally being more pro-Democratic.
On the front of the vote for the renewal of the Congress, the Democrats keep the majority in the House, while for the control of the Senate it is the head.
Joe Biden wins in Maine, according to Associated Press projections
.
Trump and Biden are going head to head in Georgia and North Carolina
, two states that are still 'too close to call' according to projections.
Biden recovers in Wisconsin and is now heads up
.
The former vice president has 49.3% of the votes against Donald Trump's 49%, according to CNN projections.
And, again according to the latest data from CNN,
the Democratic candidate has overtaken Trump in Michigan
.
It is 49.3% against the president's 49.1%.
The 16 big voters of the state are crucial for the final victory.
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To fuel the sense of disorientation is above all the strategy adopted by Donald Trump in the final sprint of his election campaign and confirmed on election night.
His message could not be clearer: he has no intention of giving up and is unlikely to step aside, barricaded in the White House.
The president promises a long legal battle to contest the votes in the mail that will continue to arrive for days on end in some decisive states like Pennsylvania or North Carolina.
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