US Elections: Street Demonstrations to Defend Vote Counting and Keep Protests – News

The tension surrounding the delicate assignment of delegates to the 538-member Electoral College, which will define the winner of the controversy, has been transferred to the streets under the slogan “Count every vote”.

This is demonstrated by reports from journalists from the Efe agency – Laura Barros, Jorge Fuentelsaz, David Villafranca and Alfonso Fernández – in cities such as Washington, New York, Los Angeles and Detroit.

The next day the vote began without the winner being known and with the candidates, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, watching the results in the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina, and in a district of the Maine.

The latest projections give Biden 264 of the 270 delegates needed to win, compared to 214 for the current Republican.

Trump, who declared himself victorious at dawn today, before knowing the final results, reported the existence of “electoral fraud”, but without putting forward any evidence, and threatened to go to the Supreme Court to stop the counting of votes. .

The streets were not deaf to political polarization.

In the federal capital, Washington, hundreds were waiting for the first screenings near the White House.

“Without hatred or fear, every vote counts here,” proclaimed a group of people, whose march forced traffic to stop on several streets in the city.

In New York, with most of the shops on 5th Avenue protected by wood paneling, everything was also prepared for demonstrations.

In total, nine marches were called for Wednesday afternoon, in the boroughs of Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens, with slogans like “Say no to fascism” or “We don’t want Trump to steal the election.”

In Los Angeles, the “Black Lives Matter” movement today called for a concentration in the city center.

In the state of Michigan, which became the second state after Wisconsin, where Trump’s campaign appealed to the court to ask for a suspension of the vote count, protesters were preparing parades in the cities of Ferndale, Brighton, Ann Arbor, Lansing. and Grand Rapide.