Drama in the US presidential election: Hours pass, votes are counted – but the election campaign remains close, with both candidates hoping to cross the 270-seat line and serve as president for the next four years and each state could be the key state. The Israel Today website regularly updates on the dramatic elections in the United States.
Regular updates – minute by minute (Israel time):
04:50: Counting 94% of the vote in North Carolina, there appears to be a slight advantage for Trump. In Nevada, after counting 75% of the vote, there is a slight advantage for Biden.
04:20: The Bureau of Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Rapensperger, said about 107,751 ballots had not been counted. In this situation, it is still too early to announce a winner in a country that has 16 electors. “Senior officials in many counties continue to count ballots, under heavy security protocols, in order to protect the purity of the election,” Rafensperger said. “We guarantee that the voice of every eligible voter will be heard. It is important to act quickly, but it is more important to do it right.”
03:30: Michigan State Secretary Jocelyn Benson said “all the proper and valid votes in Michigan were presented exactly.”
03:00: The race is close. Nevada election officials said they expect to release more results on Thursday. These results will include additional votes from the two most populous counties in the country. According to the results as of this moment, there is a slight advantage for Joe Biden over President Trump. A close race was also recorded in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia.
02:30: Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolfe was asked during a news conference about Trump’s demand to stop the state’s vote count and replied, “The process of counting ballots in Philadelphia is open and transparent.”
02:15: Trump’s campaign team has reportedly filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the vote count in Georgia. At the same time, Fulton County Electoral Commissioner announced that the vote count will end by Wednesday night (US time). There are still 149,350 countless ballots in Georgia. As of this moment, Trump is leading by a slight advantage over Biden in that state.
01:25: Trump tweeted: “Our lawyers have asked for a ‘significant approach’, but why is it helping? The damage has already been done to the integrity of our system and the presidential election itself. That’s what needs to be discussed!”
00:05: Twitter once again issued a misleading information warning about President Trump’s tweet.
23:50: Approaching a decision? Fox News joins CNN and gives Biden a win in Michigan. According to this forecast, the Democratic candidate wins 264 electors compared to 214 for Trump. In such a situation, Biden needs one more state to get 270 electors.
23:21: CNN estimates Joe Biden will win in key state of Michigan (16 electors). According to the news network, in the current situation Biden with 253 electors and Trump with 213. Remember, in order to win, the candidate needs 270 electors.
Joe Biden: “The people rule and their will prevails” // Photo: Reuters
23:15: Joe Biden addressed the nation and responded to the dramatic developments: “The people are in control. His power cannot be taken away. His will determines who will be president. Now, after a long night of counting, it’s clear we’re leading. I’m not saying we won, but I do say We believe that at the end of the count we will be the winners. ”
22:45: After President Trump sought to halt the counting of votes in Pennsylvania, the president’s chief of staff announced a victory in an electorate – even though no media network has declared victory for either side.
22:25: Trump’s headquarters are about to appeal the ruling of the Pennsylvania court, which approved counting votes in the state that were received in the mail after the polls closed. The president himself noted regarding the state “” We are winning in Pennsylvania by and large, but the secretary of state claims there are millions of votes left to count in it. ”
21:45: Trump won Maine’s fourth electorate, after Biden won the top three.
21:00 Due to allegations of forgery, Trump’s headquarters are demanding a halt to the vote count in Michigan. A statement from the Republican Party said: “While the votes in Michigan continue to be counted, the results in the state continue to be as close as we expected them to be.
“The president’s staff has not been given adequate access to dozens of polling stations and its representatives cannot estimate the counting process as required by Michigan law. The president is committed to every kosher vote being counted – in Michigan, or anywhere else. ” In addition to the announcement, Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is expected to arrive in Michigan to conduct legal proceedings on the matter.
20:45: Republican Sen. Suzanne Collins of Maine, whom Democrats had hoped to succeed in replacing a left-leaning state, retained a seat in the Senate.
20:35: 80% of the votes in Pennsylvania were counted, Trump leading by about 460,000 votes; Michigan: 94 percent of the vote was counted, with Biden leading the state by about 45,000 votes.
20:24: Republican Party leader Rona McDaniel expressed confidence that President Trump would win in Georgia and estimated that the next vote to be counted in Arizona would change the trend in the country. She also noted that there are still chances of winning in Nevada and Pennsylvania as well
20:10: Joe Biden won more than 69,589,840 million votes at the national level, thus breaking the previous record set by former President Barack Obama.
19:47: Trump headquarters has announced that it is going to demand a recount in Wisconsin.
Screenplay: Neta Bar // Animation: Gilad Distelman
19:40: Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has denied allegations that Trump wants to prevent a vote, saying “the president wants every legitimate vote counted, but voting was supposed to end on election night,” he added, adding that he was happy with the Republican Party’s victories.
19:28: For the third time since the election, Twitter has issued a misleading information warning about President Trump’s tweet.
19:11: Trump blames – “They are working to quickly erase the advantage we have gained in Pennsylvania and Michigan.”
19:10: The state of Maine, which is one of only two states in the U.S. that splits its electors by turnout, has awarded three of its four electors to Joe Biden. No decision has yet been made on the fourth electorate.
18:56: Trump responded to reports of Biden’s victory in Wisconsin and said – “They are finding votes in favor of Biden everywhere, in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, a disaster for our state.”
18:50: Report – All the votes in the state of Wisconsin have been counted, Biden leads by about 20,000 votes and will most likely win the state’s ten electors.
18:45: The Secretary of State of Michigan said she believes there will be no final results in the state by the end of the day (US time).
18:35: Some 23 million people in the United States watched the election broadcasts last night. This is according to the “The Wrap” network in Hollywood.
18:05: Trump headquarters estimate that they will win in Nevada and Pennsylvania and claim that Arizona has not yet been decided in favor of Biden.
17:59: Governor of Pennsylvania – “Every vote will be counted, even if it takes a long time.”
17:52: Biden’s campaign team claims the former vice president is on his way to victory. “Biden is on the road to victory and he will be the next president of the United States,” said campaign director Jen Dillon. “We believe we are on the road to victory that will be announced later this afternoon.” Dylan added that even if the vote count were stopped, Biden would win the presidency at this point.
17:51: Twitter marked President Trump’s tweet, in which he claims that the late vote leads to fraud and contains “misleading information.” This is the second time since the Twitter election that France has issued a warning label for the president’s tweet.
17:15: Biden responded to Trump’s allegations of post-election fraud and the president’s call to stop the vote count, saying, “We will not rest until every vote is counted.”
17:05: Trump accused Democrats of cheating on Twitter and claimed: “Yesterday I led steadily in many key countries – and in almost every one of them that has a Democratic governor, it has changed surprisingly, very strangely.” Trump further attacked the pollsters, saying they were “absolutely and historically” wrong. Trump added, wondering: “But the fact that every time you count a pile of votes from the mail, you get devastating results.”
16:40 – The morning after the US election opened with gains on US stock markets. The Dow Jones industrial average opened up 1%, the Nasdaq jumped 3%, Apple shares rose 3% and Amazon more than 4%.
16:20 – Drama in Michigan: Democratic candidate Joe Biden passed President Trump by 0.2 percent after counting 90 percent of the vote. A very close battle over the country’s 16 electors.
15:55 – Over 160 million U.S. residents have already voted, and 85 percent of the vote was counted. According to them, Biden leads with 69,355,184 votes nationwide compared 67,008,852 to President Trump.
14:43 – After counting 97% of the votes in Wisconsin, the difference between Biden and Trump stands at 0.7% in favor of the Democratic candidate in the battle for the state’s ten electors.
14:00 “Chris Christie, the former governor of the state of New Jersey and formerly an associate of Trump, came out against the remarks of the American president, who called for a halt to the vote count across the United States.” Who gave the ABC network. “There comes a point where you have to let the system do its thing before you determine it is defective. I think he damaged his credibility by paying attention to that flaw. “
13:52 – Will Biden achieve a makeover in Michigan? After counting 90 percent of the vote in the key state, which grants 16 voters, the Democratic candidate narrowed the gap from President Trump to only about 12,000 votes.
12:52 The state of Colorado has voted against a bill banning abortions beyond the 22nd week.
12:50 Voters in Arizona, New Jersey and South Carolina voted to allow recreational marijuana use – while South Carolina also approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes. In doing so, South Carolina is the first state in the United States to simultaneously approve drug use for both of these purposes.
12:45 – Nevada will not publish results updates until tomorrow: The state of Nevada has announced that it will not publish its election results until tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. (local time). So far, in Nevada, the votes of voters who came to vote at the election day itself and in the early voting and all the ballot papers that came in by November 2 have been counted. The votes of envelopes received on Election Day and envelopes to be received in the coming days have not yet been counted. Currently, after counting 86% of the votes in Nevada (its 6 electors), Biden is gaining an advantage of less than 8,000 votes over Biden.
11:54 US Report: Biden gains a small advantage over Trump in Wisconsin.
11:40 – CNN: Joe Biden Won in Hawaii.
11:00 – Biden responded to Trump – Joe Biden’s election headquarters said that “if Trump appeals the election results and wants to stop the vote count – we will set up a legal team to prevent the move.”
10:10 The governor of Pennsylvania announced on his Twitter account: “There are over a million votes yet to be counted.”
10:00 – After the conflicting reports – The news agency reports: Joe Biden has won in the state of Arizona.
09:25 – President Trump in a special White House statement: “We are preparing for a big celebration, the results are amazing.”
08:58 – Report in the New York Times – Blue Georgia. According to polls, there is a 63% chance of Biden’s victory in the country.
08:20 – Nebraska is divided. Fox News reports that the five electors in the state have been divided between the two candidates – four electors for Trump and one for Baiden (Nebraska and Maine are the only states that divide electors by district).
08:00 – Voting in the US is over. The last polling station in Alaska has closed.
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