The electorate is in the process of confirming Biden's victory ... and Trump continues to deny the defeat

Members of the US electorate vote today, Monday, to confirm that Joe Biden officially won the presidency of the United States, in a formality under normal circumstances, but this year it takes an exceptional dimension as Donald Trump still refuses to admit his defeat.

Each of the 50 states of the United States and the District of Columbia have ratified the results of the November 3 elections by each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia;

The Democratic candidate won 81.3 million votes, or 51.3% of the vote, compared to 74.2 million votes, or 46.8%, for the Republican president.

However, the United States chooses its president by indirect universal suffrage, whereby each state grants the votes of its electors on the electorate, whose numbers are determined in relation to the population, to the candidate who won the state's popular vote.

The results confirm Biden's victory easily, by obtaining the votes of 306 members out of 538 in the electorate, compared to 232 for Trump, knowing that the victory is decided for those who get 270 votes.

The two electors meet to formalize the polling process, but in practice the major electors meet separately in each state.

Biden then delivers a speech in the evening to celebrate his latest confirmation of victory and to praise the "strength and resilience" of American democracy, in a clear blow to Trump's unprecedented stance.

The major voters are local political officials, activists, civil society figures, or friends of the candidates.

Most of them are unknown to the public at large, although national figures such as Hillary Clinton, who lost to Trump in the 2016 elections, will sometimes vote in New York to confirm the victory of President-elect Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris.

 Trump will not give up

Although some "disloyal voters" argued in recent years, with their votes not for the winning candidate in their states, their number was never enough to change the election result.

So Biden's victory is expected to become official and final on Monday.

But Trump, who remains the White House's legal preoccupation as of Jan.20, continues to make allegations based on no evidence that the November vote was "the most fraudulent election in US history," and he tweeted again Sunday.

"How do states and politicians confirm elections in which corruption and irregularities have been documented?"

In reality, however, his team was unable to document any widespread fraud, and courts dismissed his appeals in dozens of cases to dozens of judges.

A final humiliation

In a final insult, the US Supreme Court refused Friday, although it has a conservative majority, including three judges appointed by Trump himself, merely considering an appeal filed by the Texas authorities and another filed by Republicans as well, with the aim of canceling the presidential election results in a number of states.

Trump's fraud allegations are backed by many Republican lawmakers.

Some of them may finally be ready to admit Biden's victory, after endorsement by the electorate.

But with polls released showing that only one in four Republicans accept the election results as valid, Trump is not expected to give up anytime soon.

"We are just starting to fight," he wrote on Twitter.

And at the end of last week, when asked on Fox News if he would attend Biden's inauguration on January 20, according to protocol and centuries of tradition, the former real estate mogul said, "I don't want to talk about that."

The president may seek to use the complex and long-term transition process to make a last-ditch effort to nullify the outcome, as some of his Republican allies in Congress intend to contest the results on January 6, when Congress formally endorses the results of the electorate's vote.

However, such a maneuver has practically no chance of success.

But Trump's response to the results over and over again despite confirming them again and again, will inevitably pose Trump to a formidable challenge in a country more divided than ever.

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