Joe Biden also wins the popular vote by more than 5.2 million votes. (FILE)
Washington / Wilmington:
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will win the Arizona state battlefield, Edison Research projected on Thursday, dealing another blow to President Donald Trump’s difficult effort to overturn the results of the 3 presidential election. November.
Biden’s victory in Arizona gives the Democrat 290 electoral votes in the state-by-state electoral college that determines the winner, more than the 270 needed to achieve victory. Biden also wins the popular vote by more than 5.2 million votes, or 3.4 percentage points.
With a few states still counting the votes, the electoral math is daunting for Trump. The Republican President has repeatedly claimed that the election was marred by widespread fraud, without any evidence to back his claims. He is expected to overtake Biden in at least three battlefield states where Biden currently leads by varying margins.
The Trump campaign has filed lawsuits to challenge the vote count in some states, although some have already been rejected by judges. Legal experts said litigation was unlikely to alter the outcome, and state election officials said they saw no evidence of serious irregularities or fraud.
Manual count audits in more than six counties in Arizona, including Maricopa County, where the majority of the state’s residents live, have revealed only minor discrepancies, the secretary’s office reported Thursday. ‘State. Audits involve the manual counting of a random sample of ballots.
So far, most Republican officials and lawmakers have publicly supported Trump’s attempt to challenge the election results and have refused to recognize Biden as president-elect.
But a handful of Republican senators on Thursday urged the Trump administration to allow Biden to receive intelligence reports, implicitly acknowledging he could possibly occupy the White House even as they refused to acknowledge his victory.
The President-elect traditionally receives such briefings from the intelligence community to be briefed on threats the United States faces before taking office.
“I don’t see this as a high risk proposition. I just think it’s part of the transition. And, if he actually wins in the end, I think they have to be able to get going.” John Cornyn told reporters.
Other Republican senators have also said Biden should have access to classified briefings, including Lindsey Graham, a Trump supporter, as well as Ron Johnson, James Lankford and Chuck Grassley.
Senior House Republican Kevin McCarthy opposed the idea.
“He’s not president right now. I don’t know if he’s going to be president on January 20,” McCarthy said.
Biden remained focused on preparing to rule. The former vice president, who is on the verge of becoming America’s second Catholic president after John F. Kennedy in the 1960s, spoke with Pope Francis on Thursday, thanking him for his “blessing and his congratulations ”and pledging to work together on issues such as climate change and poverty, his transition team said.
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