He overcame Trump by leading the results by a slight margin in crucial states

Biden is close to the conclusion of the race to the White House

• Election officials during vote counting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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• Trump supporters argue with a counter-demonstrator on the left against the election results outside the centerpiece board in Detroit, Michigan.

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The Democratic candidate in the US presidential elections, Joe Biden, made greater progress on the road to the White House yesterday, by leading the results in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada, and became the closest to a conclusion.

A heated race to the White House to obtain the 270 votes from the electoral college, and this comes with the continued counting of votes in a few swing states, and hours after his rival, Republican President Donald Trump, claimed that the elections were "stolen" from him without providing evidence for that.

In detail, the Democratic candidate, Biden, came close to owning the keys to the White House, as the Associated Press reported that Biden is ahead of Trump by about 6,000 votes in the crucial state of Pennsylvania, which has 20 seats in the electoral college, as Biden strengthened the difference in the state from 9,746 votes to 12390 votes.

According to the "New York Times", Biden became ahead by about 5600 votes over the Republican president, after compensating for his delay with the counting of the coming votes in the mail, which proved to be in his favor, and CNN confirmed Biden's progress.

In a slow counting process, the results were reversed yesterday morning in Georgia, and the former Democratic Vice President was ahead of the Republican president by a margin of 1,579 votes.

But due to the very close results, no major American media outlet has so far announced the victory of one of the candidates in this state represented by 16 major voters.

So the counters stopped before the magic number to reach the White House, of 270 voters - and the majority of the Electoral College (the Electoral College) at 253 or 264 votes for Joe Biden - depending on whether the media confirmed he got Arizona and 214 for Donald Trump.

Biden (77 years) will become the next president of the United States if he wins Pennsylvania or two of the three states: Georgia, Nevada and Arizona.

And unlike in Pennsylvania and Georgia, Donald Trump benefits directly from the delay in counting the vote in Arizona.

It reduces the difference with Joe Biden, which could deprive the Democratic candidate of the votes of 11 major voters that were awarded to Joe Biden by the Associated Press and Fox News from Tuesday evening on the basis of partial results and statistical models that are usually considered very reliable.

Biden maintained a slight lead in Arizona and Nevada, as in Arizona, his lead over Trump decreased to about 47,000 votes, and in Nevada Biden’s progress fell to 20,352 votes, where he got 49.8% compared to 48.1% for Trump after 92% of the vote counted.

Trump, 74, sought to portray the slow counting of votes in the mail as tainted by fraud.

In the face of the results, which were collectively in favor of his rival, Trump released several tweets in the early hours of yesterday in which he reiterated the complaints he had announced earlier in the White House.

"I easily win the presidency of the United States with the legal votes cast," he wrote, without providing any evidence of any illegal votes.

In an unusual attack on the democratic process, Trump appeared in the White House press conference Thursday evening and claimed without evidence that the elections were "robbed" of him.

Trump lashed out at election workers and harshly criticized the vote-casting before Election Day, which he said aimed to undermine the voting process itself in favor of Biden.

After Trump's words, Joe Biden called again for calm and patience.

"None of us will take away our democracy, not today or ever," he wrote in a tweet.

Hours earlier, the Democratic candidate had expressed confidence in his imminent victory in a speech marked by a presidential tone.

"I ask everyone to stay calm," Biden told reporters in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.

The process is going as it should, and the count is going on and we will know the result very soon. We have no doubt that with the end of the counting of votes, our victory will be announced.

Democrats see the Republican complaints as unfounded, but it may delay confirmation of results by several days or even weeks.

In Michigan and Georgia, two judges dismissed the Republican complaints.

At Trump's camp, a judge ordered local authorities to allow Republican delegates into the Philadelphia Convention Center to closely follow the screening process.

Aides to Trump and his family are campaigning to convince their voters of widespread fraud, especially in Democratic-run Pennsylvania.

But the Republican camp seems to be taking the result.

For his part, Larry Kudlow, Trump's economic advisor, said that there would be a peaceful transfer of power, even if the president showed no signs of admitting defeat to his rival Biden.

"I think there will be a peaceful transfer of power," Kudlow told the US television network CNBC yesterday, after being asked whether a peaceful transition of power was necessary in order for the markets to remain calm.

"This is the largest democracy in the world, and we are committed to the rule of law, and so will this president," he said.

On the other hand, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed confidence that the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, will emerge from the elections with a winner.

"Biden has a strong mandate to lead, and he will have a strong Democratic House of Representatives standing behind him," Pelosi said, referring to Biden as "an elected president."

Trump campaign: 'the elections are not over'

The campaign team of US President Donald Trump confirmed yesterday that the presidential election is "not over", despite his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, on the verge of victory.

The statement came after Biden passed the Republican president ahead of him in Pennsylvania, making him in a position to win the votes of 20 members of the electorate.

A victory in Pennsylvania would dedicate the presidency to Biden, by obtaining 270 electoral votes that any candidate would need to win.

"This election is not over yet," Matt Morgan, a Donald Trump campaign official, said in a statement.

The erroneous estimates that announce the victory of Joe Biden are based on results that are far from final in four states.

The Trump campaign sued for using the song

It is expected that during the coming days, a lawsuit will be launched in France and the United States regarding the use of the song "YMCA" by the "Field Pebble" band in US President Donald Trump's campaign for the presidential elections, according to the representative of rights holders in Paris on Thursday.

"During the final days of the campaign for the US presidential elections, the Trump team used the (YMCA) song by the (Field Pebble) band widely and without permission, either in their election meetings or as music, said attorney Richard Malka, in his capacity as the representative of the rights holders of the authors of this song. For a propaganda video that was broadcasted throughout the world.

And this song has enjoyed wide international fame since 1978, and it was composed by the French Jacques Moraly and Henri Bellolo and the American Victor Willis.

Malka added that the rights holders of the French authors "discovered with astonishment this illegal use, and more than that for partisan and electoral purposes in favor of Trump, which they would not have accepted at all."

He added that this use would be "subject to a lawsuit in the coming days, whether in France or the United States, against anyone who participated in or colluded in what is considered described theft of intellectual property."

Georgia: state recount

Yesterday, Secretary of State of Georgia Brad Ravensberger said that the vote margins between President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the US presidential election in Georgia are very close, which led to a recount.

"At the present time, Georgia is still too close to make a decision," Bloomberg News Agency quoted him as saying in a press briefing. "With a small margin of this size, the Georgia vote will be recounted."

It can be recounted if the margin is less than half a percent.

Only thousands of ballot papers were left to count, and the margin between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden is around 1,000 votes.

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Pelosi: Biden will emerge as a winner, and he has a strong mandate to lead.

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