Elections in the United States: the need to count key votes …

From Washington, DC

The hopes of Donald trump earn the Elections in the United States and get re-elected are still alive. So much so that this morning he declared himself the winner of the states that still count the votes and spoke of fraud without any proof. He also warned that he planned to appeal to the Supreme Court and called for the vote to be stopped, which already ended on Tuesday. It remains to count the key states.

The delay was expected. It was one of the most repeated warnings of the final weeks of the campaign. Knowing the total Pennsylvania count can take days. The count in Michigan and Wisconsin won’t be quick either. These three states are the pillar that still maintains the Democratic strategy to win. No results confirmed in other hotspots like North Carolina and Georgia, the partial tally attributed this morning to 238 voters for Democrat Joseph Biden and 213 for the president.

Trump took two of the most coveted swing states. Florida, with 29 members of the electoral college, and Texas, with 38. He also won in Iowa Yes Ohio.

Results for Nevada and Arizona in the west of the country showed a slight bias in favor of Biden, but there was no sure projection yet. In his speech, the Democratic candidate was also optimistic. “I’m here to tell you tonight that we think we are on track to win this election,” said Biden of Delaware..

In the early hours of Washington, there was also no clear picture for the majority in the Senate. The Republican Party was only slightly closer with 47 seats altogether almost certain, while its rivals grabbed 46. The House of Representatives will again be under Democratic control, according to projections.

The first results

The results already known are those of the center-south of the country and those of the north-west. Alabama, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee. All of these historically Republican states have kept their tradition and voted for Trump. The situation was very different in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. There a Biden victory was ruled out, which also added Illinois voters to the center. As the results for both candidates became clear in which party’s safest territories were, attention turned to the numbers for the most contested states.

By 7 p.m. on the East Coast, results from West Virginia, Ohio and North Carolina had arrived. No surprise, all five voters in West Virginia went to Trump. The other two, keys to this election, were still unknown.

The arrival of Florida’s first votes had shown an equal choice. In the eternal contested state, the television networks constantly updated the partial result. Sometimes Trump first. A little later, Biden. Then again the president. Finally, the result was irremovable.

Votes in Miami-Dade County, the main Democratic stronghold in the “southern state,” were bad news for Biden as count night had only just begun. The turnout of Republican voters was up from 2016 and that of Democrats was down. This low turnout was one of the main concerns of the opposition party in the face of these elections. “If the votes are not there, they must come from another place,” he predicted. CNN John King, one of the channel’s main political analysts.

It doesn’t matter whether in Kentucky or Indiana only 15% of the vote was counted. In these states, the triumph of the Republican Party is certain in every election. In this there were no surprises and they were the first to add voters for Trump. CNN he projected that result for Indiana shortly after 7 p.m. on the East Coast. The New York Times does the same for Kentucky.

Biden’s first state was Vermont in the northeast of the country. It wasn’t a surprise either. The three state voters represented by Senator Bernie Sanders also surrendered to the Democratic Party shortly after the polls closed.

In the city of Washington, the capital which began to protect itself against the risk of riots on Wednesday, the vote took place in peace. Without a ban, the areas surrounding the centers were full of posters of local candidates and some in favor of Biden. In strongly democratic territory, it is rare to see references to the president that are not critical.

Trump and Biden reactions

After his marathon campaign wrapped up, Trump followed the White House election. The seat of the US executive has been completely fenced and there have been traffic cuts in nearby streets. The District of Columbia, like states like Massachusetts and Illinois, has been monitoring the situation closely. Shops and buildings barricaded in the capital, members of the National Guard on alert in several cities.

Trump spoke to the network early Fox News, when they had just opened the tables on the east coast of the country. He was convinced he was winning and assured the polls did not reflect the true intention to vote.

In the last days, an Axios report said Trump was preparing to declare victory on election night. This Tuesday, the president said Fox News that he would do it “when there is victory, if there is victory”, but he was also convinced of his eventual triumph. In the end, he did exactly what he was supposed to do.

Biden, for his part, had encouraged early voting via messages on Twitter. “We can overcome these crises. We can take our country back. We can win this battle for the soul of the nation ”, posted the Democratic candidate and shared a link with more information about the polling stations.

Over 100 million voters

The most recent reports indicate that 100 million people voted before election day. Tuesday’s challenge for the Democratic and Republican parties was to squeeze out missing voters, especially in states where polls still showed very close results.

While in most cases the vote went smoothly, there were isolated incidents of disinformation. Michigan State Attorney General Dana Nessel said on Twitter that she had received “reports of multiple robocalls” in the Flint area, speaking of long lines and urging voters to vote on Wednesday. “Obviously this is FALSE and it is an effort to suppress the vote. There are no long lines and today is the last day to vote, ”he said. Something similar happened in New York State and the FBI wanted to investigate what had happened.

In an election marked by the effect of the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a protocol so that people with covid-19 can still vote. “Voters have the right to vote whether they are sick or in quarantine,” the authority said on its website.

The United States reached election day with more than 9 million infections and more than 230,000 deaths from the coronavirus, a health crisis that has become a major campaign issue and the target of Biden’s criticism of the management of Trump.