Joe Biden “Convinced of Victory” in U.S. Presidential Poll
By Worthy News Election Team George Whitten and Stefan J. Bos
(Worthy News) – U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is convinced he will clinch the presidency after post-election legal challenges by his rival.
“Now, after a long night of counting, it’s clear,” he said Wednesday, following the most turbulent presidential vote in recent memory.
“I’m not here to declare that we’ve won. But I am here to report when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners.”
Biden also highlighted that more than 100 million people voted early in what was the most massive U.S. voter turnout in a century.
The 77-year old former Vice President said that he and running mate Kamala Harris were on track to win more votes than any ticket in the history of this country has ever done.
70 MILLION VOTES
Biden so far won 70.7 million votes across the nation, according to an Associated Press (AP) news agency tally. That broke the previous record held by former President Barack Obama in the 2008 election. President Trump received 67.7 million votes, according to the count.
Biden also noted that his lead in Wisconsin, where the AP earlier called Biden the winner, was the same margin—about 20,000 votes—by which Trump won the state in 2016.
With Biden edging closer to the necessary 270 electoral votes, President Donald J. Trump’s reelection campaign said Wednesday it would launch a legal blitz to halt vote-counting in Pennsylvania and Michigan until election observers were allowed to enter voting facilities.
It also came amid allegations of fraud from Judicial Watch, a conservative “non-partisan foundation,” promoting transparency in politics and law.
As an example, it found that Clark County, Nevada, had “a 102.7 percent voter registration rate”. It meant that “more voters were registered there than eligible to vote.”
LEGAL CHALLENGES
Amid the reports of alleged wrongdoing, the Trump campaign and the Nevada Republican party were rushing to ask the state’s Supreme Court to stop Clark County from processing mail-in ballots.
The lawsuit comes after a district court already rejected their case, pointing out that Nevada law permits counties to count ballots electronically. It also sought a recount in Wisconsin, threatening to draw out the final results of the razor-thin White House contest.
And critics claimed there was no clear ‘blue’ Democratic sweep on the electoral map as predicted by opinion polls. Many states were still turning ‘red,’ the color of the Republican Party backing President Trump.
In an unprecedented move, the incumbent declared victory despite the ongoing counting of votes and said he would ask the Supreme Court to fight alleged election fraud.
“We were winning everything, and all of a sudden, it was just called off,” Trump claimed. He accused Democrats of trying to “disenfranchise” voters and trying to steal the election. “They knew they couldn’t win. This is a fraud on the American public. This is an embarrassment to our country.”
”VOTER FRAUD”
His lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, agrees. “Twenty years, thirty years, forty years, fifty years of a hundred years of one-party rule leads to corruption of all kinds. Voter fraud is one of the biggest because that is how you keep your power,” he said.
“This election gets decided by the people. The elite, they don’t care about the people. The people are the deplorables, the chumps — they’re not important…” Giuliani complained.
“That is the whole reason that President Trump ran for office. So that your vote doesn’t get wiped out by a hundred thousand fraudulent, meaningless paper ballots that no one gets to observe.”
But he warned: “we are not letting them to get away with it. They are not going to steal this election.”
Giuliani made clear that they would file legal challenges in several states and possibly nationally.
PARTIES CHALLENGE
Concerns about wrongdoing also prompted the Republican Party to launch lawsuits to halt vote counting in states that refused to allow election observers into polling facilities to oversee the integrity of the election process.
Amid the uncertainty, at least some Democrats added to the confusion. Worthy News observed how Georgia Democrats offered training to people how “to help voters how to cure their ballots.”
”Attention everyone in or near Georgia: We need YOUR help today! This race is not over, and we need every single vote to be counted. It is all hands on deck and all eyes on Georgia!” the group said on its website.
”Join us today for virtual training to learn how to knock on doors to help voters cure their ballots. We need you in this fight with us today and tomorrow and Friday.”
It wasn’t clear what ”curing” ballots meant. ”We’ve come so far, this is how we bring it home. See you in the virtual training room and out knocking doors soon!” Georgia Democrats said.
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