The president is calling for a recount of Wisconsin’s votes ... and his rival is advancing in key states

The US presidential election awaits victory ... and Biden rejects Trump's declaration of victory

Election officials count the Fulton County votes at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.

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For the first time since the year 2000, the Americans woke up yesterday, without knowing the identity of the next president, after a poll that witnessed a record turnout while the counting of votes continued in key states, where the election results are still difficult to resolve until hours or days later, despite President Donald Trump declaring his victory. In the face of his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, without providing any support, and his talk of unfounded accusations of fraud.

After Biden scored little progress in partial results in several key states, including Wisconsin and Michigan, the Trump campaign said it would immediately request a recount of Wisconsin votes, and threatened to go to court to challenge the legality of some ballot papers via mail.

In detail, early data revealed Biden's progress in Wisconsin and Michigan, and Donald Trump's progress in Pennsylvania.

The Edison Center reported that Biden is leading in Wisconsin with 99% of the vote counted.

The center announced that Biden won 49.4% against 48.8% for Trump, after counting 99% of the votes from Wisconsin.

Immediately, the Republican presidential campaign said it would request a recount in Wisconsin.

Trump's campaign director announced that the latter would request a recount in Wisconsin, where his rival, Joe Biden, is slightly ahead.

"In several areas of Wisconsin, irregularities have been reported that raise serious doubts about the validity of the results," Bill Stephen said in a statement.

He added, "The president is within the margin that allows a request for a recount, and we will do so immediately."

The difference seemed very small, about 20 thousand votes between the candidates, after counting almost all the votes.

On the other hand, Trump said in a tweet posted on "Twitter", that the counting process in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin is bad for our country, stressing that they are "trying to hide 500 thousand votes in favor of me in Pennsylvania," noting that "Biden votes are being inserted in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. .

There are still paths for Trump and his opponent Biden to win the necessary number of electoral college votes to enter the White House, which is 270 out of 538, as states continue to count postal votes that have increased in light of the emerging Corona virus pandemic.

Shortly after Biden, 77, said he was confident of winning the competition once the votes were counted, Trump, 74, appeared at the White House to declare victory.

"We were preparing to win this election," he said.

Frankly, we won these elections. ”Then he directed an exceptional attack on the electoral process by a president in power, and said,“ This is a major fraud on our nation.

We want the law to be properly enforced.

So we're going to the Supreme Court.

We want all voting to stop. ”

Polling stations closed on Tuesday evening, but many states usually take days to finish counting ballots.

Many cast their votes by mail due to fear of the Corona pandemic, which is likely to take longer than usual for the counting and counting of votes.

The results in the three "Blue Wall" states, namely Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, remain unresolved, and these states had unexpectedly brought Trump to the White House in 2016.

Biden is narrowly ahead in Nevada, whose officials have said they will resume counting the vote on Thursday.

The result was also not decided in two southern states, Georgia and North Carolina, with Trump leading in both.

Biden's victory in either of them will greatly reduce Trump's chances of winning.

And if Biden wins in Arizona, as was predicted by "Fox News" and "The Associated Press," then that would give him many ways to enter the White House.

And if Nevada votes in his favor, he could win the presidency if he wins in the two states of Wisconsin and Michigan, in which he has a slight lead, even if he loses Pennsylvania.

The most likely way for Trump to pass is Pennsylvania. If he wins, he can secure another term if he also retains the southern states and wins at least one of the Midwestern states.

The Edison Research Center said that Biden is ahead of Trump in the electoral college vote, with Democratic candidate Joe Biden getting 238 votes to 213 for the president.

Biden's hopes for an early decisive victory have been dashed since Tuesday evening, when Trump won in the crucial states of Florida, Ohio and Texas, but Biden, who previously held the position of Vice President, expressed confidence that he is on his way to the White House by winning three major states. In the name of the "rust belt" states.

"We have a good feeling about our situation," Biden said in his hometown of Delaware, raising his voice to the noise of his supporters, who were blasting their car horns in support of him.

"We believe that we are on the way to winning these elections," he added, calling on the Americans to be patient.

"Keep your faith, we will win," he told his supporters.

Trump had indicated during the final days of the campaign that he would declare victory if he was ahead on election night, and would seek to stop additional vote counting.

Trump's campaign manager Bill Stephen said the campaign will press ahead with its legal efforts to ensure that all valid votes are counted, not those unlawfully cast.

"If we count all the correct votes, we will win, the president will win," Stephen said in a press conference.

Biden campaign manager Jane O'Malley Dillon said in a statement, "The president's statements about trying to stop the vote count that were properly cast were outrageous, wrong, and unprecedented."

Trump, 74, had written on Twitter before his appearance in the White House: “We are far ahead, but they are trying to steal the elections.

We will never let them do that.

No votes can be cast after the polls close.

Trump also wrote in a tweet, "On Tuesday evening, you were ahead in many major states," adding, "After that, one after the other, I started to magically disappear with surprise election cards appearing and counting."

The cards that Trump is talking about are those that arrived in the mail, and the counting process can last for several days in some states.

This prompted a response from the Biden camp, which considered the Republican president’s words "scandalous" and "unprecedented."

Biden wrote on Twitter in response to Trump, "It is neither my right nor Donald Trump's right to announce the winner of this election, it is the right of the voters."

It was not clear what Trump meant when he said that he would ask the Supreme Court to stop "voting".

"It is a deliberate attempt to deprive American citizens of their democratic rights," the Democratic candidate's campaign team said, stressing that it is ready for a judicial "battle" in the event Trump turns to the Supreme Court.

Biden pledged in a tweet that his campaign "will not rest until every vote is counted."

The Supreme Court does not hear direct appeals, but rather decides on cases brought to it by lower courts.

But legal experts said the election results could be disrupted by state-by-state appeals on a number of issues, including the ability for states to count late-post votes that were sent on election day itself.

Even before Tuesday's voting day, election campaigns witnessed a record number of lawsuits in dozens of states, as the Corona pandemic forced election officials to prepare for an unprecedented poll.

Both campaigns mobilized teams of lawyers to prepare for any dispute.

In Pennsylvania, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf said his state had more than a million mail-order votes yet to be counted, and described Trump's comments as a partisan attack.

The Edison Research Center said that more than 2.4 million early voters cast their ballots in that state, 1.6 million of whom were registered Democrats and about 555,000 Republicans.

Without major surprises, Trump and Biden quickly won the states in which they were expected to win. Indiana, Kentucky, Alabama, Idaho and Tennessee among others voted for Trump, while California, Virginia, New York, Colorado and Delaware voted for Biden.

The elections witnessed the largest turnout since women were allowed to vote. 160 million Americans cast their ballots with an estimated turnout of 66.9%, compared to 59.2% in 2016, according to US Elections Project.

The counting of votes may take several days ... and the Biden team describes Trump's statements as "scandalous" and "unprecedented."

Trump denounces fraud ... and Biden wants all votes counted.

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