Facing Trump, Biden defends democratic exercise

Joe Biden calls for patience, Donald Trump is impatient.

After clashing on all subjects during the campaign, the Democratic candidate and the Republican president continue to clash on both style and substance during the long countdown suspense.

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After the initial results swept away the Democrats' hopes for a clear and massive victory Tuesday night, and once the shock created by the scale of the vote in favor of Donald Trump passed, Joe Biden gradually took a lead on his opponent.

Having become the favorite in number of large voters, the Democratic candidate has nevertheless refrained from any triumphalism.

Simply saying

of the ballot, he called on Wednesday to await the results of the counts, which continued Thursday in six key states.

“We knew that due to the unprecedented number of early votes and postal voting it was going to take a while,”

Biden said.

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The sense of measure

Presented by his opponent throughout the campaign as a half-senile old man or a puppet in the hands of an extreme left ready to set the country on fire and blood, Biden has instead shown in recent days of sense of measurement and responsibility.

His message has remained the same as throughout his campaign: rather than stoking partisan passions, Biden presents himself as a unifier, displaying his confidence in the strength of the institutions and the electoral system.

he said Wednesday evening, before launching one of the sentences he hammered for months:

Trump, who made the unleashing of passions the engine of his political career, and presented himself throughout the campaign for his re-election as an “anti-system” candidate, continues to question the validity of the ballot.

The vote count, however, brought him back on Thursday neck-to-neck with Joe Biden, and the counting of the last ballots has benefited him in some states.

After his intervention on Tuesday night, where he accused the Democrats of massive fraud, and asked in a threatening tone that the counting of the ballots be stopped, the outgoing president no longer appeared in public.

But Thursday morning, his Twitter account continued to demand in capital letters that we “STOP THE COUNTING!”

Trump also wrote.

The settlement takes place transparently.

There are observers watching and it will continue

Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania

His campaign team has filed various appeals in several states, asking to invalidate certain ballots, such as in Pennsylvania, to suspend the vote count, as in Michigan, or their recount, as in Wisconsin.

This legal offensive has so far fizzled out.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, said the Trump campaign complaint was

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Trump's campaign has produced no evidence of fraud.

And above all, it appears to be above all political, since while Trump's supporters are demonstrating in Michigan to stop the counting, others in Arizona are demanding that it be continued.

In eastern states such as Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina, Trump's lead has narrowed since election day as ballots from major cities have been counted. , advance ballots and postal voting, rather favorable to Democrats.

In Georgia, Trump had only some 14,000 votes left on Thursday.

But in the West, it was Biden's lead that had diminished as the count went on.

It was down to 12,000 votes in Nevada and 70,000 votes in Arizona.

Despite the president's accusations, the American electoral system, which is very decentralized since each state sets its own rules, has not been found wanting.

No major problems arose in the count, and accusations of fraud launched by the chief executive fell flat.

Officials from states where counting continues reiterated that these delays were not unusual.

And that the considerable number of anticipated ballots received, due to the record rate of participation and the pandemic, had logically increased them.

A short lead

“We had long anticipated that the count would last until Thursday,”

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said.

So far, calm has rather accompanied the counting operations.

Relatively small protests erupted in Portland, Oregon, and Minneapolis, where opponents of Trump have called for all votes to be counted.

In Phoenix, Arizona, around 100 Trump supporters rallied in arms to demand that all ballots be counted as well.

But it is not certain that this calm lasts, especially after the announcement of the results.

The difference between Joe Biden's strategy of waiting for the results by calling for calm and that of Trump, who challenges the validity of the ballot and the counts which are not favorable to him, is not solely due to a difference in character.

Six times elected senator, having served eight years as vice president, Joe Biden has considerable political experience, and is better placed than anyone to appreciate the scale of the task that awaits him if he wins the presidential election.

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He knows that in case of victory, he will have to rule an America divided into two almost equal blocs.

Trump's scores, both in terms of popular vote and in the electoral college, indicate that the incumbent president's popularity remains formidable.

Only the top mobilization of the Democratic camp, rather than Republican defections, gave Joe Biden a short lead over his opponent.

To the topic of the election stolen by fraud, which Trump has started to spread, and which conservative media has already picked up on even before the final results are known, the Democratic candidate has no choice but to oppose that of an irreproachable ballot.