More than a month after the November 3 elections, the
Electoral College is preparing to certify Democrat Joe this Monday
Biden as president of EE. UU., after the Supreme Court rejected the demands of Republican Donald Trump, who still does not acknowledge defeat. Find out here the keys that mark this process in the American country.
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How is the certification and what do you expect to happen next?
This Monday, the Electoral College will meet to formally vote for
Biden as the next president of the US. UU., Who will take office in early 2021.
The Democrat won 306 delegates to the Electoral College, above the minimum of 270 needed, while Trump was left with 232 commitments out of a total of 538.
Although the Americans voted at the polls in November, the formally recognized result is that of the Electoral College votes, distributed proportionally by population among the country’s 50 states plus the District of Columbia, where the capital, Washington, is located.
This process will be carried out by the voters of each state, usually representatives of political parties or state officials, and who reflects the result at the polls on November 3.
Mike Pence, Vice President of the United States. UU.
Once the story is completed, it is sent to the President of the Senate in Washington, a position held by the US Vice President. UU., For which it confirms the result the 6 of January.
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Subsequently, on January 20, the investiture ceremony will be held
Biden is the 46th president of the United States.
Trump’s defeat and his intentions to change the election
Trump still does not recognize his defeat in the elections by alleging, without evidence, an alleged electoral “fraud”, a position to which will be added many of his followers, which increases the tense political polarization in the country.
No, it’s not over. We will continue. And we will keep moving forward
“No, it’s not over. We’ll keep going. And we’re going to keep moving forward,” Trump said Sunday in a Conservative interview. Fox although there are no clear legal avenues to deny victory at the Biden polls.
Shortly afterwards, on his way to his private golf club in Sterling, Virginia, to spend Sunday, Trump tweeted, “The most corrupt election in U.S. history.”
In recent weeks, however, several courts in several states of the country have dismissed complaints filed by the outgoing president’s campaign, the mayor left for lack of evidence, and validated Biden’s victory.
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The coup d’état over Trump’s latest attempt to overturn the outcome of the November presidential election was struck by the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday in rejecting a lawsuit filed by Texas.
The healthy president of the United States, Donald Trump.
Oliver Contreras. EFE
The climate in the country
Trump’s speech succeeded in convincing a section of the population: a third of the US thinks Biden owes his victory to fraud, a figure that rises to 77 percent among Trump voters, according to a University of Monmouth poll .
“This kind of poison can really seep into a democracy and delegitimize the traditional way politics unfolds in this country,” said David.
Farber, a professor of history at the University of Kansas, who advises on a “danger” to democracy.
But the consequences do not get there. On Saturday night, four people were abducted in Washington after clashes between Trump supporters and members of the Antifa and Black Lives Matter movement (The Lives of Imported Black People).
The clashes ended at the end of the marches under the slogan “Let’s stop the robbery” that celebrated pro-Trump activists in the American capital. “We are in a spiritual battle for the heart and soul of this country. We will win,” said Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, one of the rally’s speakers.
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This kind of poison can really seep into a democracy
To understand the scope of what Trump said, Wendy Schiller, a professor of political science at Brown University, says the outgoing president’s accusations flourished in a favorable context.
Due to the pandemic, people no longer have talks in places of worship, work or parties. Consume even more media content, but choose those that support your views, such as small pro-Trump channels Newsmax y OAN. “There’s no room for counterpoint,” Schiller explains.
“Really, today you can choose your reality by choosing which channels to watch and which sites to visit (…) It’s not very good for democracy, because it solidifies opinions,” says Thomas Holbrook, a professor of public policy at the University of Wisconsin.
No one will stand up to contradict him
By keeping silent or adhering to the president’s theories, Republican Republicans further reinforced the doubts of conservative voters. “No one will stand up to contradict it (…) They are afraid to infuriate their voters,” said Michael Nelson, a political scientist at Rhodes College.
The beginning of the Biden government
Meanwhile, Biden is trying to give an image of normalcy in the face of Trump’s aggressive rhetoric, and amid concern over rising contagion from the covid-19 pandemic in the country, announcing nominations for the main charges of its Administration.
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He has already made presentations, such as that of Janet Yellen as Secretary of the Treasury, that of Anthony Blinken to head the State Department and that of retired General Lloyd Austin as Secretary of Defense.
He also pledged to reinstate the US. UU. at the Paris Climate Agreement “the first day” of his presidency already convened a world summit on the issue in its “first 100 days” in the White House.
What follows in the United States
In this context, he then expects Biden to find “strong resistance during the first six months or the first year” of his presidency, according to Schiller’s prediction.
We could slowly begin to see democracy erode
For the expert, this tension will subside when the population is vaccinated against covid-19, the economy will rebound and people will realize that “Trump is gone.”
But for Nelson, the concern “is not so much what will happen next year.” “If this continues to happen in the next 10 years or in the next presidential election (…) we could slowly begin to see how democracy was eroded,” Nelson warns.
INTERNATIONAL WRITING *
* With information from AFP and Efe
Besides
– The defeat of Trump and his attempt to delegitimize the electoral process
– Trump launches a new campaign to try to cancel the election
– Key dates that would close Trump’s path in the election novel