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The votes of the electorate in almost all US states and the capital borough of Washington have confirmed the victory of the Democrat Joe Biden over incumbent Donald Trump in the presidential election.

The vote in California raised Biden on Monday evening (local time) above the threshold of the necessary 270 votes.

Biden wanted to speak out after the electoral vote in all 50 states and the capital district.

The president is elected indirectly in the United States.

The total of 538 electorates vote on behalf of the people.

In the vast majority of states, the election winner gets all the votes of the local electorate.

In the voting on Monday there were initially no deviants, all electorates voted according to the results.

The vote in Hawaii was still pending.

That 78-year-old Biden won the election has been clear since November 7th, when leading US media - as is customary in the United States - proclaimed him the winner.

Based on the certified results of the states, it was expected that Biden would get a total of 306 votes at the end of the electoral vote and that incumbent Trump would receive 232 votes.

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The final overall results of the presidential election will be officially announced in Congress in Washington on January 6th.

Biden is due to be sworn in on January 20th in Washington.

On that day, Trump's term ends automatically, even if he does not admit defeat.

The voting of the electorate is a formality in normal election years because the losing candidate usually admits his defeat on election night.

But Trump still claims that he actually won the election and sees himself being deprived of his victory by massive fraud.

Many Republicans - including leading party colleagues in the US Congress - have not yet publicly recognized Biden as the winner.

With a wave of lawsuits, Trump and his allies have tried to tilt the election result in favor of the incumbent.

Neither he nor his lawyers or his supporters have provided evidence to support their far-reaching allegations.

More than 50 lawsuits have already failed.

On Friday, the Washington Supreme Court also dismissed a lawsuit aimed at overturning Biden's victory in four states.

Trump had declared at the weekend that he did not want to give up the legal battle against his defeat yet.