USA 2020: Biden passes the threshold of 80 million votes, an absolute record

USA 2020: Biden passes the threshold of 80 million votes, an absolute record

Biden - Appeal by the elected president: 'Enough divisions respect the vote'. But Trump to supporters in Pennsylvania, 'reverse the results'

 

USA 2020: The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris presidential ticket passed the 80 million vote mark (80,026,721), a record for an elected president of the United States, while the presidential count is not yet finished. CBS News writes, which recalls how Donald Trump, with his 73 million 890,295 votes so far validated, is the second ever.   

The holder of the 'bronze medal' in American history is Barack Obama, who in the election to the first term in 2008 obtained 69.5 million preferences. The US broadcaster recalls that 159 million Americans voted this year, 66.7% of the total: a turnout that hadn't been registered since 1900.

 

"Within the U.S, civilians have the option to go to poll and the results should be granted, it must be granted because the Americans would accept nothing else". Joe Biden's warning in his first speech to the nation as president-elect, in which he makes a solemn appeal for national unity in the face of unprecedented health and economic crisis. But while Joe Biden speaks from his Wilmington, Donald Trump simultaneously freezes him with a phone call to his supporters in Pennsylvania during which he urges everyone to overturn the outcome of the vote.

 

Thus, despite the transition for the transfer of power from one administration to another in these hours, Biden's warning and appeal return to clash with Trump's wall, more than ever determined not to concede victory and to give still battle. "We need to overturn the elections," the tycoon told Republican Senators from Pennsylvania. His voice from a mobile phone supported by his lawyer Rudy Giuliani: "These elections have been rigged," Trump reiterated, drawing inspiration again from several conspiracy theories that have so far not found any response.

 

Meanwhile, Biden hoped for "the end of this sad season of divisions", first of all, to try to prevail over a devastating virus: "Fighting this pandemic is a duty of all of us as Americans, we need to redouble our efforts," Biden said, explaining how the federal government can do a lot, but also that all citizens must feel obliged to wear masks, respect social distancing and avoid crowds, even on holidays such as Thanksgiving.

 

Biden News: After all, despite repeated calls to stay at home, millions of people have moved from one part of the United States to another for the long Thanksgiving weekend which this year risks having a multiplier effect on infections: already two million in the last two weeks, an absolute record, with an impressive average of about two thousand deaths per day. "From now on it will be Covid 24 hours a day, seven days a week," say the collaborators of the president-elect's anti-coronavirus task force, who are already working with the White House, with the federal health authorities of the CDC, with Anthony Fauci's Institute for Infectious Diseases and with the leaders of the Warp Speed ​​project for the distribution of vaccines,

 

 "We can and must overcome the current crisis together", his appeal, reaffirmed the commitment to go beyond the political controversy and to work against the pandemic and, in general, for the country in a climate as bipartisan as possible, also together with republicans. To the point of not excluding the presence of personalities from the conservative world also within Biden’s government team! This latter hypothesis was reiterated in the first TV interview released after the elections, and which risks creating the first friction with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

Especially since Biden seems to be closing the doors of the government to names of the calibre of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren: "Personalities so important they should stay in Congress", he explained on NBC.

 

BidenNews: "Mine will not be a third Obama term," promised the Joe Biden president-elect, trying to shake off the bulky shadow of the former president Trump with whom he has already shared eight years in the White House: after a term of Trump and the pandemic "the landscape has changed, today the United States faces a different world", he explained. It is, therefore, necessary to reconstruct what for Biden were the serious damages of the doctrine of America First, "transformed - he said - into America Sola", and isolationism that must be broken. Biden News - The premises are there, given the welcome of Biden's victory by European leaders and after the openings to dialogue in the last few hours also from Beijing and Tehran, with Xi Jinping and Hassan Rohani who hoped for a return to relations before the handover of power.