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Joe Biden Prepares to Claim Victory in U.S. Presidential Race

By Worthy News Election Team George Whitten and Stefan J. Bos

(Worthy News) – Democrat Joe Biden was expected to claim victory Friday in one of the most contested presidential races in decades, despite claims by President Donald J. Trump that Democrats rigged the vote.

Ahead of his speech, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday said that Democratic nominee Biden likely won the presidency, calling him the “president-elect” as he appeared to pull ahead in several key states.

Biden was close to receiving the necessary 270 Electoral College vote to become the oldest president in U.S. history, according to published tallies.

The Democratic nominee will turn 78 ahead of his expected inauguration as the 46th president of the United States in January.

Biden, who appeared frail and searching for words on several embarrassing occasions, will face an uphill political battle.

He won after the state of Pennsylvania took him over the edge, according to official results cited by media.

His victory wasn’t accompanied by the democratic “blue wave” and crushing rejection of Trump the Democrats had sought.

The latest results showed that Biden would become the first president in 32 years without control of Congress, another dynamic that would weaken claims of a mandate.

“This is not the scenario many Democrats hoped and prepared for. They wanted a landslide that ended before midnight on Election Day, one that unambiguously crushed Trump and Trumpism, swept in a Democratic Senate, and showed a large majority for the Biden agenda,” Politico news service commented.

It will make it virtually impossible to even flirt with ideas such as expanding the Supreme Court or any other measures to increase the Democratic president’s power base.

President Biden’s leftist, green-deal agenda will be hampered by his difficulties to win over the entire Senate Democratic caucus, from far-left Bernie Sanders to Joe Manchin, and then up to 10 Republicans.

And there were signs Friday that Biden’s road to the White House would be bumpy. Trump refused to concede as his team filed legal challenges in several states amid concerns about voting fraud.

Despite the tensions, observers said democracy was still healthy in the U.S. with voter turnout projected some 67 percent, the highest in 120 years.

If Trump eventually hands over the White House’s keys, he will leave behind the presidency over a deeply divided nation that saw its fastest economic recovery in decades before what he called the “China virus” entered and spread across the U.S.

The latest numbers showed economic output surged by an annualized 33 percent in the third quarter of 2020, following a record decline due to the
coronavirus pandemic measures.

It was the most significant quarterly increase, outdoing the previous peak of 16.7 percent in the first quarter of 1950, according to official statistics.

Foes and friends agreed that the coronavirus pandemic that officially claimed over 230,000 lives was the main reason for losing the ballot.

His personal style and often embarrassing tweets didn’t help, but polls showed most Americans appreciated his economic record.

In foreign policy, he also brokered historic peace agreements between Israel and several Arabic states. He moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, which he recognized as the capital of the Jewish state.

Unlike several presidents, Trump did not start any war and instead began withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, Iraq, and even Germany.

In the end, the political battlefield in the nation that he declared “first” proved to be too much for the 74-year-old leader.

However, with nearly half of Americans voting for him according to official results, the outcome suggested that Trump will remain a force to be reckoned with.

Advisers have reportedly joked that he may even run for office in 2024 and that a media venture called ‘Trump TV’ has been discussed.