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04 November 2020The United States are holding their breath waiting to know the name of the 46th president who will have to lead a divided country, marked by the Covid-19 health crisis and the loss of millions of jobs. There was neither the red wave announced by the Republican candidate Donald Trump nor the 'Blue Wall' to guarantee victory for Democrat Joe Biden. The battle between the two rivals is being fought in a few key states, vote by vote.



The worst case scenario has come true for voters, markets, and foreign powers hoping for a net result. The former vice president of the Obama era has so far collected 238 electors (considering also the 11 of Arizona) of the 270 necessary to win the elections, while the tycoon is at 213. But the game is still open missing the votes of seven states: Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Alaska, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada which in total have 86 electors. Trump currently leads in the top four, while Biden is in the bottom three.



Both candidates wanted to be confident in their success. Biden beat Trump, giving a speech at Election night where he addressed voters saying that the Democrats were on track to win and urging everyone to be patient and wait for the counting to be completed. A patience that seems to be lacking in the tycoon who immediately sang victory. As the tally has continued, the distance between the two rivals has shortened and Biden has regained ground in key states such as Michigan and Wisconsin, in the now well-known MidWest that brought Trump to the White House in 2016. The tycoon's initial advantage and Biden's subsequent recovery had already been speculated as the Democrat is stronger in the mail votes whose count has yet to be completed.



Trump continued to cast shadows on the regularity of the vote by denouncing the disappearance of his initial advantage that occurred "magically". "They are finding votes for Biden everywhere - in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan. Bad for our country!" He attacked on Twitter (which promptly flagged the posts as "controversial" and potentially "misleading") and again, "They're working hard to make 500,000 votes disappear in Pennsylvania - as soon as possible. Likewise, in Michigan and other states, "he added.



Donald Trump's campaign director Bill Stepien announced that the tycoon intends to "immediately" request a recount in Wisconsin (which has 10 big voters), where the race with Joe Biden remains tight. In the state, if the gap is within 1 percentage point, the trailing candidate can force the recount. In short, all legal, but if the Republicans go ahead with the lawsuit, the time to know the name of the new president could be longer.



In absolute terms of votes, Joe Biden has obtained the most (69,512,303 against Donald Trump's 67,069,982), so much so that he has also beaten Barack Obama's record in 2008. But, as is well known given the previous elections It is not enough to have an absolute majority of votes, it is rather that these are well distributed among the States that have a greater weight. While Biden managed to wrest Arizona from the Republicans, Trump confirmed his success in Texas, Ohio and Florida, where he was honored by the Latinos electorate.



Voters also voted for Congress. In the House of Representatives the Democrats are currently ahead with 181 MPs against the 171 of the Grand Old Party (GOP), while in the Senate it is a neck and neck with 47 seats assigned to the Dems and 48 to the Gop. All four progressive Democratic MPs who are part of the so-called 'The squad': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib have been confirmed. Victory also for two Gop followers of the conspiracy theory QAnon in the House: Marjorie Taylor Greene elected in Georgia and Lauren Boebert in Colorado. The youngest representative in modern US history also enters Congress: Madison Cawthorn, 25, a staunch conservative, anti-abortionist and pro arms.