5 November 2020 Jewish News
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America decides / US election
vote hangs on a knife-edge
their carbon emissions. The US produces 15 percent of the world’s emissions, but Trump supports the US fossil fuel industry. In a dramatic statement in the White
House, Trump said the election, which was characterised by a high number of mail-in and early votes, in part owing to the coronavirus crisis, had been “an embarrassment to
our country”. He added: “We were getting ready to win this election – frankly we did win this election.” The president announced that “we will be going to the US Supreme Court, we want all voting to stop”. Later, he claimed it was “very strange” that “surprise ballot dumps” had eroded his overnight lead in key states. “How come every time they count mail-in ballot dumps they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction,” he asked. Trump has nominated three of the Supreme Court’s nine justices – including, controversially, Amy Coney Barrett, whose appointment was confirmed just a week before the election. It is unclear what, if any, legal basis the president would have, with Biden’s camp insisting that the law required every “duly cast vote” to be counted. Biden said: “We won’t rest until everyone’s vote is counted.” His campaign had been braced for Trump to seize on record numbers of postal votes to allege he was being cheated. By yesterday evening, neither candidate had yet achieved the 270 electoral college votes necessary to win, and counting was still under way in the states that will decide the outcome. Biden had 238 expected electoral college votes to Trump’s 213.
Biden’s campaign chief Jen O’Malley Dillon said the Democrat was on a “clear path to victory” and would “garner more votes than any presidential candidate in history”. Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Nevada will all go to Biden, she claimed. Among the remaining undeclared states, Georgia is a “toss-up” and North Carolina is “really tight”, she said, but “probably leaning towards Trump right now”. She added: “Last night, the president of the United States falsely claimed he had won this race and then demanded that votes stop being counted. “The American people get to pick their president, the president does not get to pick the people whose votes get counted.” Further results in Nevada, where the two candidates are neck and neck, will not be announced until today (Thursday), leaving six college votes up for grabs. Trump, however, has seized major victories in Florida and Ohio, which both have long records of choosing the winner of the White House. Despite the claims of the Trump campaign, former vice president Biden is believed to have won Arizona, a state that, in 72 years, has only once backed a Democrat in the race. Additional reporting by Press Association. Editorial comment, page 20
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