The current US President Donald Trump did not rule out the possibility of returning to him the leading position in the presidential elections in a number of states following the results of court proceedings initiated by the Republicans. I wrote about this on my page in Twitter Friday 6 November.
According to him, on the evenings on election day, November 3, he was by a wide margin in the states necessary for victory, but after a few days “this gap disappeared mysteriously.”
Earlier that day, Trump announced that his Democratic rival in the presidential election, Joseph Biden, had no right to claim victory while the court proceedings were ongoing.
Trump, during a speech at the White House on November 5, threatened that the trial over the election results could end in the country’s Supreme Court. Trump noted that there will be many appeals to the court due to the large amount of evidence and evidence of violations in the past US presidential elections.
We are talking about the possibility of the Supreme Court to suspend the counting of votes in certain states, which could be an advantage for one of the candidates.
On Nov. 6, it was reported that Democratic candidate Joe Biden seized the lead in Pennsylvania after handling 98% of the ballots. He gets 3,295,327 votes, while his Republican rival Donald Trump – 3,289,731 votes. Biden pulled ahead by 5,596 votes.
Earlier in the day, Biden also overtook Trump in Georgia (16 electors) after processing 99% of the ballots – a day earlier, Trump had a 5,000 vote there.
Trump currently has 214 electoral votes, Biden has 264, and a Democratic representative is only six votes short of winning.
The US electoral system assumes that the candidate with the most American votes may not always be the winner. The fact is that the choice of the head of the country rests with an electoral college of 538 people representing their states. The number of electors from each state is equal to the number of representatives of the state in Congress. In elections, electors must vote for the candidate who has previously won in their state, but there is no law binding them to this.
The process of counting votes in the presidential elections in the United States, which has been going on for several days, is accompanied by protests and clashes between protesters and the police. What is happening on the streets of American cities – in the Izvestia photo gallery
Photo: RIA Novosti / Yuki Iwamura
In New York, more than two dozen people were detained after clashes with police
Photo: RIA Novosti / Dmitry Parshin
Protesters in New York, leaving Washington Square Park, chanted slogans against police actions and in support of Black Lives Matter
Photo: RIA Novosti / Dmitry Parshin
The police asked them to clear the road, but the protesters did not obey
Photo: RIA Novosti / Stringer
After that, clashes between protesters and the police began, the security forces had to use force and detain several people
Photo: RIA Novosti / Dmitry Parshin
Also, post-election demonstrations were held outside the White House in Washington.
Photo: RIA Novosti / Yuki Iwamura
Several central streets were blocked in the city
Photo: RIA Novosti / Dmitry Parshin
One of the activists was detained and charged with resisting arrest and hooliganism
Photo: RIA Novosti / Dmitry Parshin
During the protests in Los Angeles, about 40 people were detained. Demonstrators blocked railway tracks and refused to leave
Photo: RIA Novosti / Dmitry Parshin
National Guard units sent to Portland, Oregon
Photo: RIA Novosti / Dmitry Parshin
Here, protesters smashed shop windows, burned US flags, threw improvised objects at police
Participant of the protest action