Trump And Biden Are Different In Responding To The US Election Vote Counting Process

Ilustrasi (Raga Granada / YOU)

JAKARTA - The President of the United States (US) Donald Trump launched an extraordinary attack on the presidential election process in that country. Trump continues to claim his vote was stolen. On the other hand, his competitor Joe Biden is calmer with the advantages he temporarily possesses.

This attack came as Trump's hopes of taking a second term of presidency faded as more votes were counted. Many important battlefields show Biden's superiority even more.

Trump's accusations are sadly without evidence. He only continued to criticize election officials. Trump said there was fraud in the state, where his votes were dwindling. That's what Trump says is pushing Biden closer to victory.

"This is a case where they tried to steal votes," said Trump, who spoke for about 15 minutes in a White House meeting room before leaving without answering questions.

Trump's remarks followed a series of Twitter posts earlier in the day calling for vote counting to stop. In addition, the Trump Campaign team filed lawsuits in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania, although judges in Georgia and Michigan were quick to dismiss the charges.

Legal experts say the case has little chance of influencing the election outcome. Biden, the former US vice president, continues to undermine the incumbent Republican leadership in Pennsylvania and Georgia, even as he maintains a narrow lead in Nevada and Arizona.

Biden moves closer to securing 270 votes in the state's Electoral College that determines the winner. To quote Reuters on Friday, November 6, Trump's lead in Pennsylvania has shrunk from 319,000 on Wednesday, November 4 to around 50,000 on the evening of Thursday, November 5.

Meanwhile, the voting margin between the two in Georgia fell from 68,000 to 2,500. Those numbers are expected to continue to support Biden, with many ballots from areas that normally vote for Democrats, including Philadelphia and Atlanta.

Biden also recognized his lead in Arizona and was expected to excel in Nevada. Most of the major television networks reported that Biden was 253 and 214 ahead of Trump in the Electoral College election, which was largely determined by the state's population.

This tense US election was also enlivened by demonstrations in several US cities on the second day of vote counting. Vote counting is in the hands of civil servants who methodically count hundreds of thousands of ballots, many of which were sent by post due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The final result in each state can take days. said Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar. He said the state still had some 350,000 uncounted ballots. It is estimated, most of it will be calculated on Friday, November 6 local time.

In Georgia, Gabriel Sterling, an election official also said it would take time to process the remaining tens of thousands of ballots. Arizona, where there are at least 400,000 ballots remaining and Nevada, which has an uncounted 190,000 votes, are also estimated to take days to complete the count.

Keep calm

Biden posted a statement on Twitter shortly after Trump's presence at the White House and said nothing would take democracy away. In earlier remarks from his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, Biden expressed confidence in his victory.

Biden also constantly calls on his supporters to remain calm while votes are still being counted. "Democracy sometimes falls apart," said Biden. “Sometimes it takes a little patience too. But that patience is paying off now for more than 240 years in a system of government the envy of the world. "

New polls show the US bipartisan majority reject Trump's premature declaration of victory and support tallying all the votes.