The United States rushes an agonizing scrutiny to appoint the next president

Democrat Joe Biden is one step away from becoming president of the United States.

This Thursday, two days after the appointment with the polls, the scrutiny has advanced until putting Donald Trump's rival on the edge of the White House.

While the agonizing count continued in different parts of the country, the president cried out on his Twitter account to stop immediately and warned that he will contest the results.

Convinced that victory was approaching, the Democratic leader appeared briefly late in the day.

"Be patient, there is no doubt that we will be the winners," he predicted.

Vertigo has gripped the country in the last 60 hours.

The future of the presidency is being played out in a kind of five simultaneous basketball games, in which each tenth, each small point can end up deciding everything and nothing.

Vote counters in a handful of key states started in favor of the Republican on the night of Nov. 3, but as the scrutiny progresses, the path of his Democratic rival to the White House clears, much to Trump's despair.

Biden has already tied up two of the three States of the industrial belt that decided the fate of the New York businessman in 2016 (Michigan and Wisconsin), he caresses the hitherto Republican Arizona (various media, in fact, already project him the winner), he maintains the head in Nevada and has closed the gap with two others that would be a fatal blow to Trump, the conservative stronghold of Georgia and the hinge of Pennsylvania.

"STOP THE SCRUTINY!" The president shouted on his Twitter account, using capital letters and exclamation marks.

The pressure is extreme on those responsible for counting each territory, well aware that each ballot can be review meat and that the matter could end up in the Supreme Court.

The secretaries of state appear before the press several times a day, to communicate new waves of data or announce deadlines for the count that they end up not complying with.

In some territories, the gap between the current president and the vice president of the Obama era has come to nothing.

For example, in Georgia, Trump only leads Biden by less than 15 votes (three tenths) in the absence of 60,000 more ballots.

In Nevada, the matter is disputed with a difference of 11,000 in favor of Biden, but there all the face-to-face votes have already been counted and only the anticipated ones are missing, mostly Democrats.

The tightness of this scrutiny causes half the planet - from investment banks in Singapore, to officials in Brussels or olive growers in Andalusia - to be aware of what happens in places like Maricopa, an Arizona county, or Fulton, the one that welcomes the southern city of Atlanta, because both decide the design of the policies that will mark the agenda outside the United States in the next four years.

Meanwhile, the streets begin to host the first demonstrations in favor and against continuing with the vote count.

Trump supporters who protested with Phoenix assault rifles are joined by left-wing groups in Detroit, Oakland, or New York denouncing Trump's maneuvers to stop Biden's rise to the White House.

The legal battle he wants to launch revolves around the great wave of early and mail voting.

In fact, the Republican has been pushing unfounded accusations of fraud since he was a candidate in the 2016 elections, when polls placed him as the loser.

Winning, he put the matter aside.

Throughout this campaign, it has recovered the strategy, arguing, on the one hand, that the system for sending ballots is very vulnerable to irregularities and, on the other, that no State should count votes that arrived after election day, on the 3rd. of November.

The latter is critical in Pennsylvania, a hinge state with 12 million inhabitants that, of the five that remained in the air this Thursday, is the one that has the most weight in the election of the president.

Each territory follows its own rules of the game and, in this, no early vote could begin to be processed before D-Day, which slowed down the process and, on the other hand, the authorities allowed the counting of all those who arrived by mail until the November 6, as long as they were sealed until the 3rd. Trump seizes on this to denounce the system, but the Supreme Court blessed him at the end of October.

The situation became more complicated this Thursday, when one of the counties, Allegheny, suspended the process by a court order on account of possible irregular votes.

The peculiarities of the United States electoral system - and the chaos that they can generate - are a reflection of the federal character of the country, a huge piece of America with 330 million inhabitants in which each territory can organize its recount as it decides, within of a powerful apparatus of counter-powers of different political colors: the legislative chambers, the governor's office or the state Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, Biden and his campaign partner, vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, call for calm.

“Be patient, friends, the votes are being counted and for now we see it well.

This race is not over until every vote is counted, "wrote the Democrat on his Twitter account.

Biden's campaign manager, Jen O'Malley Dillon, stressed at a press conference that the Democratic candidate has received more than 72 million votes, more than any other president in the history of the United States, more than 50% of the popular vote , "That's why Trump is so desperate" and has resorted to lawsuits to blur his opponent's clear advantage.

Bob Bauer, legal adviser to the former Democratic vice president, lamented "the aggressive disinformation and political theater" of Trump, reports María Antonia Sánchez-Vallejo.

This large number of votes is due to the increase in overall participation, the highest since 1900.

The president's accusations add to a huge number of hoaxes about alleged irregularities in the elections that have been flooding social networks and far-right communities for weeks, ensuring that the Democratic authorities have burned thousands of votes for Trump or that Republican observers had been kicked out of a Philadelphia polling station.

The tear with which this entire electoral process is developing further complicates the landscape for the president of the next term in the United States, already split in two by polarization.

The political drama of recent days overshadowed a worrying and descriptive data of the challenges facing the country: the number of new daily infections from Covid broke a record on Wednesday, exceeding 100,000 reported cases.

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