US Elections: What Biden Needs to Win – and How He Gets Over 300 Voters

D.Democrat Joe Biden has a good chance of winning the US presidential election after winning the major states. The counting of the last votes continued on Thursday. While incumbent Donald Trump has already claimed victory, Biden appears to be within walking distance of the White House. Trump has already sent his lawyers to several states with lawsuits against the count.

According to calculations by AP news agency and Fox News broadcaster, Biden is now active 264 the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidential election. Trump therefore has 214 votes. Consequently, former Vice President Barack Obama would only have to choose one state to win. Several media outlets, such as CNN and the New York Times, saw Biden with 253 votes. Calculate the electorate for the Democrat Arizona unlike the AP not yet.

The tender is considered open to Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia is Nevada. In Pennsylvania and Georgia, Trump was initially clearly in the lead, but Biden significantly achieved the most mail-order votes. Democratic supporters were more inclined to mail their ballots than Republicans amid the coronavirus pandemic. In Nevada, which carries six electoral votes and could give Biden a precision landing, the 77-year-old held a tight lead on Thursday night. In North Carolina, Trump had the advantage.

In view of the still open result, all eyes are on these key states:

Nevada (6 voters)

86% of the votes in the desert state in the western United States were counted early Thursday morning. Where Hillary Clinton won in 2016, Biden is currently just ahead of Trump with 49.3% with 48.7%. The state electoral authority announced that the count will continue on Thursday and that further interim results are expected at 18:00 (CET).

Arizona (11 voters)

Some US media outlets, including Fox News and the Associated Press, announced Democrat Biden as the winner of the Southwestern state election on Wednesday, others have not yet made a decision for Arizona. Assuming Biden’s victory in Arizona, a state like Nevada with only six voters would be enough for the overall victory.

Georgia (16 voters)

After counting 94% of the votes, Trump in the southern state had a 50% lead over Biden with 48.8%. According to US media projections, however, the gap is closing. A result was expected on Thursday, around 16.30 (CET).

Pennsylvania (20 voters)

The state, which belongs to the industrial region in the north of the United States known as the rust belt, is particularly competitive. 89% of the ballots were counted early Thursday morning. Trump has a 50.7% lead over Biden with 48.1%. With the count of the numerous postal votes, Pennsylvania-born Biden should continue earning.

According to the authorities, the final result can be expected by Friday, as postal votes are counted up to three days after election day if they are stamped on November 3.

North Carolina (15 voters)

95 percent of the votes in the conservative state on the east coast of the United States were counted early Thursday morning. Trump is therefore in the lead with 50.1 percent, Biden with 48.6 percent. However, postal votes sent at the latest on election day will be accepted until 12 November.

Biden saw himself facing Trump in the running for the presidency. “Now, after a long night of counting, it is clear that we are winning enough states to get the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency,” he said in Wilmington, Delaware.

If Biden pushes his Arizona and Nevada leadership past the finish line, he would get 270 electoral votes – the minimum for the presidency. With Pennsylvania (20), Georgia (16) and North Carolina (15), the challenger can only get 321 electoral votes at best.

Since there have been delays at the US Post, in Pennsylvania Postal voting documents received by Friday afternoon will remain valid. Trump and the Republicans are going to court again. The US Supreme Court had approved the regulation before the election. However, three Conservatives among the nine judges were willing to take up the matter after the election.

In North Carolina the Supreme Court allowed nine days for ballots to arrive before the election, but in Wisconsin it refused an extension beyond election day. The Supreme Court also assesses whether such decisions have been made by local parliaments, electoral authorities or judges.

Trump has also sued in other states. In MichiganWherever Biden is in the lead, he wants to suspend the count until his observers are allowed to approach the assessment staff. In Wisconsin, Trump calls for a recount in the face of a close race.

In Arizona On Thursday evening, a large group of Trump supporters gathered before the electoral authority of Maricopa. Many of them were visibly carrying weapons

According to correspondent media reports, Biden won the disputed states Michigan is Wisconsin against Trump. The Republican declared himself the winner on Wednesday evening of the elections. He tweeted Wednesday that he claimed Michigan.

During the day, Trump sat several Tweets in which he scolded the counting of votes. His track that still existed on Tuesday night had “magically disappeared” in one state after another, he wrote. In the troubled state of Pennsylvania they are “working hard” to quickly “disappear” half a million votes, he wrote elsewhere. Twitter has warned several messages of “potentially misleading” claims. Biden said: “We will not stop until all the votes have been counted.”

Trump had already raised the mood against mail-order voting during the election campaign and raised doubts about its legality, although voting by mail is an established form of voting. He warned of massive falsifications with no evidence. There was no evidence of significant election fraud. In Georgia, Trump went to court on Wednesday because, according to one of his observers, 53 ballot papers arriving late in the mail were deemed illegally.

Trump (74) overall fared significantly better in the election than expected according to polls. Three-year-old Biden missed the clear victory the Democrats had hoped for and had to admit defeat to the Republican president in Florida and Texas, among others. Prior to the election, the “FiveThirtyEight” statistical portal only calculated a roughly ten percent chance for Trump to win.

The president of the United States is not directly elected by the citizens, but by the electorate. With the exception of the two states of Nebraska and Maine, all of their votes go to the winner in the respective state. 270 votes are required to enter the White House. In 2016, Trump got fewer votes nationwide than Hillary Clinton, but got more voters.