Joe Biden beats Trump and wins the American elections: "I'll be everyone's president." Pennsylvania was decisive
Joe Biden won the US election. He will be the 46th president of the United States
Joe Biden is the elected president of the United States. He has defeated Donald Trump and will be the 46th American president. In a country to be reunified, with America polarized as never before, in full pandemic, which has returned to its highest levels since March, in a country that is experiencing the worst economic crisis since the war.
Biden, 77, will be the oldest president in American history and will remain in office for only one term. He had 253 confident big voters, with four states hanging in the balance where he was ahead. It reached 284 electors according to the PA, which was the first to recognize the Democratic victory in Arizona (11 votes) and then in Pennsylvania (20 votes). CNN and NBC, which still do not consider Arizona's votes final, give it a winner with 273 votes thanks to Pennsylvania, a state in which it has recovered in the last few hours thanks to the counting of postal votes, has overtaken Trump, who conquered this traditional stronghold state Democratic in 2016 with 0.6% of votes, and now it passes back to the blue with a minimum difference of 0.5%. Nevada - 6 votes - is also awarded to Biden.
The ticket with Kamala
The endless tallying of the US elections will not end anytime soon, in any case. In California, postal cards can reach polling stations until November 20. But Biden has crossed the fateful threshold of 270 voters needed to take over the White House. That's enough. “The numbers tell us clearly that we are going to win. And we will win. With a clear majority of the nation behind us, ”Biden said last night in a short, presidential-sounding speech at the headquarters in Wilmington, his city of Delaware. The Biden-Harris ticket has so far received over 74 million votes, the all-time record for the US elections. With over 4 million more votes than the Trump-Pence duo.
Kamala Harris, a California senator, 56, a former magistrate, prepares to be the first African American and Indian-American woman to serve as vice president, in a generational change already underway. Trump, having been defeated, for now has no intention of conceding victory to his opponent. There is a fact, however, that makes it clear how American institutions are already moving to protect the new presidency, despite appeals without evidence for Trump's stolen vote and his magic circle.
Presidential protection
The military leaders through the mouth of the Joint Chief of Staff, General Mark Milley, even before the vote came out by specifying that it is not up to them to guarantee the regularity of the elections, the Constitution and federal and state laws provide for what to do in case of disputes. More importantly, as of Friday, the Secret service has pre-empted the presidential protection for Biden and strengthened the agents at the Chase Center in Wilmington - usually immediately after the victory assigned to one of the two candidates is declared president-elect. In fact, the Democratic candidate on the verge of victory was already considered president-elect.
This is how the speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the third position in the state, has already defined it, which could play a role in a possible institutional crisis, in the face of the extreme case: the refusal to accept Trump's defeat and to leave the White House. On January 21, the day after the Inauguration Day, in the event of an unresolved dispute between two presidents, the outgoing and the elected one, according to the Constitution, she would become the commander in chief. A phone call to the Pentagon and the forced move from the White House would start in a minute. It will not get there. Trump, as his collaborators say, will eventually be forced to accept defeat. But he will not concede victory to Biden with the traditional speech to the nation, according to the Washington Post. He will continue to insist on the theft of the elections.
Trump furious
Again today in a tweet he wrote: "I won this election, and by a lot," statements that embarrass moderate Republicans and those with institutional responsibilities such as Senate leader Mitch McConnell who in a tweet did not re-launch the Conspiracy theories of the president: “Every valid vote will be counted and every irregular vote will not. The courts will decide disputes. This is how the votes of the Americans decide the results ”. Republican Senator Mitt Romney said the president's assertions about "rigged, corrupt and stolen elections are dangerous, weaken institutions and damage the cause of freedom in the world."
In his sad and lonely ending Trump locked up in the White House more and more like a fort, in front of the TV connected with the world with compulsive tweets, angry and resentful is now surrounded only by his magic circle. Son-in-law Jared Kushner, attorney Rudy Giuliani, former councilor Kellyanne Conway called back to work, vice president Mike Pence, Republican election committee chairman Ronna McDaniel and her chief of staff Mark Meadows, who announced a few hours ago to be positive for coronavirus, sowing panic in the White House.
The Florida 2000 precedent
In the contested election of 2000 between George W. Bush and Al Gore, Florida went on for 36 days without a winner to clarify the results. This time, with a record turnout of 167 million people, and the country split in two, the stakes are higher. There is a risk of an institutional short circuit. The consequences of a prolonged chaos in the first democracy and world power for social stability, for financial markets and for global geopolitical balances risk being really heavy. Biden won but the ending of this story is not yet written. And he promises to be troubled. By December 14, members of constituencies must declare the results and who has won the electoral votes of each state. Whoever reaches 270, the majority of the 538 votes of the big voters available wins the presidency. On January 6 at 1 pm there is a session of the Congress that counts the electors and declares the winner. On January 20, on the Inauguration Day, the winner of the elections and his deputy are sworn in as president and vice president at the Capitol.
