Biden Confident Of Winning The US Presidential Election, Trump Filed Lawsuit

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JAKARTA - Joe Biden from the Democratic Party said he was heading for victory over President Donald Trump in the presidential election (Pilpres) in the United States. This statement was made after Biden confirmed he was superior in two important states in the Midwestern region, namely Wisconsin and Michigan.

Meanwhile, the incumbent Republican Trump is filing lawsuits and a recount.

Wisconsin and Michigan are giving Biden, a former vice president, a vital boost in the battle to garner the 270 electoral votes he needs to win the White House.

Trump won both states in the 2016 presidential election. Defeats in Wisconsin and Michigan will narrow his path to securing a second term.

"And now after a long night of counting, it is clear that we won enough states to get the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency," Biden said in his home state of Delaware. She appeared with her running mate, vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

"I'm not here to claim we've won. But I'm here to report that when the count is over, we believe we will be winners."

Trump's campaign team is asking to step in on an unfinished case in the US Supreme Court over whether Pennsylvania, another key state that still processes hundreds of thousands of incoming ballots, should be allowed to receive late arrivals of ballots sent on Election Day.

Trump's team also said it would ask for the Wisconsin vote to be recounted.

The team added that it had filed lawsuits in Michigan and Pennsylvania to halt the counting there, arguing that officials were not providing fair access to the counting stations.

Overall, Trump's legal maneuvers are a broad attempt to contest the outcome of an undecided election, a day after millions of US citizens arrived at the polls amid the coronavirus pandemic that has transformed people's daily lives.

The maneuvers came after Trump on Wednesday morning launched an attack on the integrity of the vote, when the president falsely claimed victory and declared - without proof - that Democrats would try to rig the election.

Biden said, "Every vote has to be counted. Nothing can disarm our democracy, not now, not forever. America has come so far, America has gone through so many struggles, America has endured too much to let that happen."

Trump is trying to avoid becoming the first incumbent US president to lose a re-election since George HW Bush in 1992.

Biden won Michigan with 67,000 votes, or 1.2 percent, and was ahead of Wisconsin with more than 20,000 votes, or 0.6 percent, according to figures from Edison Research, which projected Biden as the winner in Michigan.

Some media outlets projected Biden to win in Wisconsin, but Edison did not, citing a delayed recount.

Wisconsin law allows a candidate to request a recount if the margin is below one percent. That's what Trump's campaign team will take.

Responding to the Michigan vote count suit, Ryan Jarvi, a spokesman for the state attorney general, said the election had been "conducted in a transparent manner."

Voting finished as scheduled on Tuesday evening, but many states usually take days to complete vote counting.

There has been a spike in the number of ballots nationwide amid the pandemic. Other tightly contested states, including Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and North Carolina are still counting votes, rendering national election results uncertain.

Currently, excluding Wisconsin, Biden leads Trump with 243 to 213 electoral votes. The number of electoral votes in each state is largely based on the population there.