On the 3rd November 2020, the American
citizens decided who they prefer as a president.
Republican Trump was challenged by Democrat Biden, who
was Barack Obama’s vice-president and has been in the US politics the 1970s.
The national polls show that Biden is the popular
candidate but that does not predict the result of the elections. This is
because the US system is not based on the majority of votes but on the College Electoral System. How does this system work?
The number of electors of each state is roughly in line
with the size of its population. Each
state gets as many electors as it has lawmakers, the US Congress, representing
both lawmakers and senators.
California has the most electors 55, while sparsely
populated states like Wyoming, Alaska, N. Dakota and Washington DC have only
3. There are 538 electors in total and
each represents one electoral vote and each candidate needs to get the majority
of the votes, 270 or more to win the presidency.
Joe Biden in a recent poll had 52%, while Trump had only
44%. By contrast in the 2016 elections
were far less clear and unjust, because although Hillary Clinton had 3 million
more votes than Trump, he became president because of the College Electoral
System.
Never before has America gone through such crucial and
dramatic elections. Unfortunately, it is a divided and coronavirus struck
country.
The Guardian wrote on the Trump – Biden debate, which was terrible:
“The rest of the world and future historians will weep” the newspaper wrote, adding that Biden was the man who looked presidential, saying that
if Trump was re-elected “this dark,
horrifying, unwatchable fever dream will surely be the first time of America's obituary.”
The Financial Times highlighted how the president stoked
lies about voter fraud and urged his followers to carefully watch polling
stations. “Dog whistling is the politico speech for such
language but it implies that Trump was blatant,” it wrote.
The newspaper also noted that snap polls, after the event, said that Mr Biden, fortunately, had come out on top. “But no one with care for the American Democracy can have switched off feeling anything but queasy.” (Due to Trump).
There has never before been such a difficult situation in American politics. The votes are counted one by one in order to determine how many and which states are won by each candidate. We must wait to see who will be the new president of the United States. a real thriller. I sincerely hope it will be Joe Biden.
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