The Electoral College confirms Joe Biden's victory in the United States presidential elections

Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States.

Members of the Electoral College who voted on Monday confirmed the Democrat's victory in the November 3 presidential election.

The procedure, which under normal circumstances would go unnoticed, marks the coup de grace to the crusade that Donald Trump and his allies have embarked on to try to preserve the White House, launching an arsenal of baseless fraud allegations that justice has rejected.

Congress must count and certify this result in a session on January 6 and, on January 20, Biden will take office.

After the failure in court, the acolytes of the Republican president have only one act left on Capitol Hill to lengthen the drama, but the end is already written.

At around 5:30 p.m. Washington DC time (10:30 p.m. in mainland Spain), California voters cast their votes and confirm that Biden had already exceeded those 270 votes needed to be the winner.

The room erupted in applause.

“If anyone doubted it before, now we know.

What beats deep down in the hearts of the American people is this: democracy.

The right to be heard.

For your vote to be counted.

To elect the leaders of the nation ”, says the speech prepared by Biden for the end of the day, distributed to the press a few hours before.

“In this battle for the soul of America, democracy has prevailed.

We, the people, have voted.

Faith in institutions has been sustained.

The integrity of our elections remains intact.

So now is the time to turn the page.

To unite.

To heal ”, he added.

The tension around the day surfaced in places like Michigan, where members of the Electoral College, went to vote under police escort, as well as in Arizona, where they planned to carry it out in a secret location to avoid altercations.

Also, on Trump's Twitter account, which this Monday continued to throw accusations of electoral irregularity.

The Republican has pressed until the last moment the authorities of these and four other states (Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia and Nevada) to violate the will expressed at the polls and grant him re-election on Monday.

These are territories that he won in 2016 and, this time, they elected his Democratic rival.

In the US presidential elections, the individual vote of each citizen is what is known as the popular vote and is not used to elect the candidate directly, but to appoint a series of delegates, the members of the Electoral College.

There are a total of 538 in the entire country, 100 senators (two for each of the 50 states), plus another 435 that are distributed among the states based on their weight in Congress (California, which is the largest, has 55 ) and all three from the District of Columbia (DC).

Most of the territories, except Maine and Nebraska, work through a majority system (known in English as

winner-takes-all

) in which whoever gets a majority of popular votes in said territory, even if it is by the minimum, it takes all the delegates.

To win, it takes 270 electoral votes.

Biden achieved 306 (with a 7 million popular vote lead) and Trump stayed at 232.

These are the delegates who voted this Monday.

What Trump and his allies have tried is that the Republican authorities of the territories that have lost in a tight count ignore the popular vote and appoint their own delegates, so that this Monday they do not vote for Biden.

It was a forward flight.

The very Department of Justice of his Government ruled out, after an investigation, the existence of a major fraud to reverse the election results.

A string of judges in different states have also rejected the accusations.

And the Supreme Court cut off one of the latest attempts last Friday, ruling against a lawsuit from Texas.

Now, the States will send their certified ballots to the Capitol in Washington.

A joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives scheduled for January 6 will count and review those certified electoral votes.

With the winner officially declared, only Biden's inauguration remains, on the 20th of the same month.

The last time the Electoral College vote raised such excitement was in 2000, after the dispute between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush over Florida.

But then, after the Supreme Court decision favorable to Bush, Gore had already conceded the victory of his rival.

Trump has done the same and some Republicans are willing to use the last resort of Congress.

According to

The New York Times

, at the forefront of the latest attempt is Republican Congressman Mo Books of Alabama, who plans to discuss the outcome of Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia and Wisconsin.

This Sunday, on his Twitter account, he showed his position: “Congress is the final arbiter of who wins the presidential elections, not the Supreme Court.

The founding fathers of America did not want dictatorial and unelected judges to make these decisions.

The judicial system is neither prepared nor has the power to decide disputed elections, ”he wrote.

There is no sign of prospering either an initiative of these characteristics, which would need the agreement of both Houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate, when the former has a Democratic majority.

In the absence of any legal fringe, of any possible staging in the Capitol, the institutions have overcome the pulse of Trump, who has tried to win in court what the Americans had denied him at the polls and, along the way, has left to millions of his voters convinced that the Democrats have stolen the election.

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