After a tough count­ing marathon, the Demo­c­rat Joe Biden wins the state of Penn­syl­va­nia and with it the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion in the USA. Incum­bent Don­ald Trump does not acknowl­edge his defeat. Fore­casts by major news media in the US put an end to the peri­od of uncer­tain­ty — at least for the time being: They unan­i­mous­ly declared Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Joe Biden the win­ner in the key state of Penn­syl­va­nia. This means that the Demo­c­rat has enough elec­toral men and women to win the over­all pres­i­den­tial election.

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The incum­bent Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump does not rec­og­nize his elec­toral defeat, how­ev­er. “The fact is: the elec­tion is far from over,” said Trump. Biden is “wrong­ly” por­tray­ing him­self as the win­ner and is sup­port­ed by his “media allies”. Biden wrote on Twit­ter: “Amer­i­ca, I am hon­ored that you have cho­sen me to lead our great coun­try.” He promised to be “a pres­i­dent to all Amer­i­cans” whether you vot­ed for me or not. Twelve hours ear­li­er he had tweet­ed: “We may be oppo­nents — but we are not ene­mies.” The fore­casts come from the AP news agency, which tra­di­tion­al­ly plays an impor­tant role in pro­claim­ing the results of the US pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, as well as from the “New York Times” and the tele­vi­sion sta­tions CNN and Fox News. The for­mer favorite chan­nel of incum­bent Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has pro­claimed the Demo­c­rat Biden as the elec­tion winner.

This was pre­ced­ed by a big race to catch up in the count­ing of votes. Trump was still ahead with more than 600,000 votes in Penn­syl­va­nia on Wednes­day morn­ing (local time). This was due to the fact that in the east coast state, the votes from elec­tion day were first count­ed — and the major­i­ty vot­ed for Trump. The ear­ly vot­ers, who were more like­ly to vote for Biden, were not eval­u­at­ed until lat­er. In the 2016 elec­tion, Trump was able to nar­row­ly pre­vail in Penn­syl­va­nia. He was just 0.7 per­cent­age points ahead of his Demo­c­ra­t­ic rival Hillary Clin­ton. The announce­ment of the elec­tion result by CNN and AP is not offi­cial — com­pa­ra­ble to the “pre­lim­i­nary offi­cial final result” of a fed­er­al elec­tion. How­ev­er, this prac­tice is com­mon in the Unit­ed States, where the results of state elec­tions are fol­lowed and announced by the major media orga­ni­za­tions. The offi­cial, offi­cial elec­tion result will be some time in com­ing. The fur­ther pro­ce­dure looks like this: On Decem­ber 14th, the elec­tors meet in the cap­i­tals of the indi­vid­ual states to cast their votes. Until then, the incum­bent US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump would have time to chal­lenge the elec­tion result. The results of the elec­tion of the “elec­toral col­lege” must arrive in Wash­ing­ton Decem­ber 23rd. The new pres­i­dent will be sworn in on Jan­u­ary 20th.

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