WASHINGTON (AP) – Election College gave Joe Biden a majority vote Monday, confirming his victory in a state-wise vote last month, which gained even more prominence this year as President Donald Trump refused to concede defeat.
California’s 55-vote poll puts Pita in first place, with a 270-vote mark confirming he will be the nation’s next president.
There was more security in some states as voters met that day by federal law. Voters lined up for the day with masks, social distances and other viral precautions in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The results will be sent to Washington and will be chaired by Vice President Mike Pence at a joint meeting of Congress on January 6.
No small suspense and no surprise as all the election votes allotted to Biden and Trump in last month’s popular vote went to every man.
Biden won and contested on six battlefields in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – and voters cast their ballots for Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in less important action on Monday. Nevada voters met via zoom due to corona virus infection.
When all the votes were in place, Python was expected to get 306 election votes to 232. Hawaii is the only state that has not yet voted. Biden topped Trump by more than 7 million votes nationwide.
“In this battle for the soul of the United States, democracy prevailed,” Biden said in an evening speech. “It simply came to our notice then. Confidence in our companies held. The fairness of our elections remains the same. So, now is the time to turn the page. In unison. To cure. “
Biden renewed his campaign promise to be a president for all Americans, saying the country is working hard on the virus and the economy, whether they vote for him or not.
Former Maryland State Sen. Gloria Lala, in a state where Biden easily won, said votes for the democratic ace were “rejection of hatred, rejection of division.”
But not everyone is ready to say that the election is over, even if the election is over. Trump refused to agree And continues unsubstantiated allegations of fraud.
Unheard of in previous years, there are concerns about voter safety. In Michigan, lawmakers from both parties said they received threats and legislative offices were closed over threats of violence. Biden won the state by 154,000 votes or 2.8 percent more than Trump.
Georgia State Police were in operation at the State Capitol in Atlanta, where Democrat voters promised to meet Biden. No protesters were found.
Although the Electoral College confirmed Biden’s victory, some Republicans refused to acknowledge that reality. Their opposition to Biden, however, had no practical effect on the electoral process, with the Democrats set to take office on January 20.
Despite Biden’s victories in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Republicans who were Trump voters met anyway. Republicans in Pennsylvania have said they gave a “practical vote” to Trump and Pence in the courts, which have repeatedly rejected challenges to Biden’s victory.
In North Carolina, Utah and other states across the country where Trump won, his voters duly voted for him. Voters in North Carolina checked their temperature before being allowed to enter the Capitol to vote. Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes resigned as a Trump voter and was isolated after he was exposed to someone with COVID-19.
Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who defeated Trump four years ago, are one of New York’s 29 voters for Biden and Harris.
In New Hampshire, 13-year-old Brighton Harrington led the group before four state voters voted for Biden at State House in Concord. At the Democratic National Convention in August he delivered a moving speech on the struggle with the dilemma he shares with Biden.
Vermont voters were the first in the country to vote on Monday, and they chose Biden and Harris.
Biden will address the nation Monday night, after voters cast their ballots. Trump, meanwhile, has been clinging to false claims that he won the election, trying to undermine Biden’s presidency before it even began.
“No, I’m worried about the country having an illegal president. I’m worried about a president who has failed and lost badly,” Trump was quoted as saying in a Fox News interview Saturday.
Following several weeks of Republican legal challenges that were easily dismissed by judges, Trump and Republican allies last week sought to set aside 62 election votes for Biden in four states in the Supreme Court, which may have cast doubt on the results.
The judges rejected the attempt Friday.
In 32 states, and in the District of Columbia, laws are needed to ensure that the people vote for the winner. The arrangement was unanimously upheld by the Supreme Court in July.
Voters always vote for the state winner somehow because they are usually dedicated to their political parties. There is no reason to expect any shortcomings this year.
The Electoral College was the result of a compromise between those who supported the election of the President by popular vote during the drafting of the Constitution and those who opposed giving the people the power to directly elect their leader.
Each state receives the same number of voters as its total seats in Congress: two senators and a number of members in the House of Representatives. Washington, D.C. has three votes under the 1961 constitutional amendment. With the exception of Maine and Nebraska, states give all of their electoral college votes to those who win the popular vote in their state.
The deal struck by the country’s founders has produced five elections in which the president did not win the popular vote. Trump is the most recent example in 2016.
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Associated Press writers across the United States contributed to this report.