Biden: “It’s time for us to unite” | The candidate for …

Joe Biden said this morning he would win the election presidential elections in the United States, while the slowness of the polls which, for the moment, is close to placing him as the 46th occupant of the White House. “It’s time for us to come together as a nationSaid the Democratic candidate from Delaware, his home state, alongside his vice president, Kamala Harris.

“From day one we will implement our plan to control this virusHe spoke of the fight against Covid-19, while defining the situation as ‘very worrying’, after speaking with a panel of experts. In fact, Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, has just come from test positive.During the campaign, the former vice president of Barack Obama focused his criticism of Trump on the mismanagement of a health crisis that has already left 20 million people infected and 236 deaths in the United States .

Biden is still up in four of the six states that still haven’t finished counting the votes: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, whose electoral college votes would give him the presidency; while Trump prevails in Alaska and North Carolina and is not enough to be reelected. The Democratic nominee predicted he would win in the four states where he continues to win. He lacks 17 votes in the Electoral College (he has 253 versus 214 for Trump and 270 are needed) and could add 53 voters if he wins the four contested states.

A few hours earlier, the president, who had prematurely declared himself the winner a few hours after the polls closed on November 3, had declared that his rival should not claim a victory “wrongly”, specifying that he too could claim it. “The legal process has only just begun!” He tweeted.

Trump campaign launched several lawsuits in various states alleging fraud, but without proof of major incidents. These claims, which Democrats deem unfounded, could delay official approval of the results for days or weeks.

The Organization of American States (OAS) electoral mission said it had found “no serious irregularities” and asked to avoid “harmful speculation”. In his preliminary report, he said it was “essential” that “candidates act responsibly in making and asserting legitimate claims in court and not unfounded speculation in the media“.

Supreme Court application unsuccessful

In Pennsylvania, where mail-in votes generally favored Biden, Republicans have asked the Supreme Court to stop the review. Judge Samuel Alito, one of six of the nine conservative judges who make up the highest court, declined to order an immediate dismissal but said the full magistrates would consider the challenge on Saturday.

For now, he’s ordered Pennsylvania to split those votes, upholding a decision by state officials. Even if the ballots were invalidated, it is believed that this would not harm the end result, as their number is far less than Biden’s advantage over Trump.

Trump’s campaign said earlier that the election “is not over”. He denounced “irregular” polls in Georgia and Nevada, and problems accessing his observers in Pennsylvania. In addition, he assured Trump would win in Arizona, criticizing, once again, the Fox News network and the AP agency for giving Biden this status, which would give him 264 electoral votes.

The voice of republicans

While, Trump supporters protested outside election offices in various cities. The protests have been largely peaceful, but in Philadelphia prosecutors have announced charges against two armed men at the convention center where the votes are compiled. In Atlanta, a poll officer has received death threats.

House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, along with Senators Lindsay Graham and Ted Cruz, among other influential figures in the party, supported the president, but there were critical voices in the party.

“We haven’t heard of any evidence,” said Chris Christie, former governor of New Jersey and Trump ally, warning of the risk of fueling tensions. For Senator Mitt Romney, Trump “is wrong to say that the election was rigged, corrupted and stolen”.

For his part, the Republican strategist Karl Rove, who worked for the victory of George W. Bush in 2000, finally settled at the Supreme Court, considered that one cannot speak of fraud. “Stealing hundreds of thousands of votes would require a James Bond movie-wide conspiracy. It’s not gonna happen“did he declare.