Democratic candidate Joe Biden, took the lead in Georgia and Pennsylvania on Friday, as he managed to increase the difference between him and his republican rival President Donald Trump, which makes him close to the White House.
Biden,77 years, currently has 264 votes while Trump has 214, according to the Associated Press.
Biden will become the next president of the US if he wins two of the three states; Georgia, Nevada and Arizona. Although vote counting process is still ongoing, Biden is slightly ahead in them.
Biden took the lead over Trump in both Pennsylvania and Georgia, fully supported by mail-in votes cast from urban centers which are considered democratic strongholds such as Philadelphia and Atlanta.
“We are going to be the first Democrats to win Arizona in 24 years. We are going to be the first Democrats to win Georgia in 28 years,” Biden wrote on Twitter. “And we re-built the Blue Wall in the middle of the country that crumbled just four years ago.”
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He addressed the nation late on Friday night as the official vote tally showed him with significant leads in Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada; however, he did not declare his victory in the absence of the race being officially called.
“My fellow Americans, we don’t have a final declaration of victory yet, but the numbers tell a clear and convincing story.” he stated.
Hundreds of democrats, wearing yellow shirts reading “Count Every Vote”, gathered outside Philadelphia's downtown vote-counting center. Additionally, a crowd of Trump supporters, some carrying weapons, in Detroit protested waving flags and chanting "Fight it out."
A gloomy feeling loomed over the atmosphere at the White House on Friday, as the president watched television and spoke to his advisers on the phone.
Trump’s advisor stated, on Friday, that “Math wasn’t on our side, and we need an act of God to alter the course.”
The advisor said that the race was clearly tilted against Trump, but he was not yet ready to admit defeat.
“The voting operations in the states of Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania were all marred by irregularities,” Matt Morgan, general counsel for President Trump’s campaign, said in a statement. “Trump would eventually win in Arizona.”
"These elections are not over yet ... Biden is counting on those states for his empty claim to win the White House ... but once the election process ends, the president will win a second term," Morgan added.
The campaign team confirmed that the presidential elections “have not ended yet,” confirming that “false estimates that announce the victory of Joe Biden are based on results that are far from final in 4 states.”
In the same context , Trump sought to portray the slow counting of votes in the mail as tainted by fraud. In addition to several tweets in the early hours of Friday morning, echoing the complaints he had previously announced at the White House.
On the other hand, the Democratic candidate assured people of his win, as he wrote on Twitter, “ We're going to win this race.”
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"The United States government is fully capable of removing any violators from the White House," the Democratic candidate spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement on Friday, responding to the idea that Trump would not accept the result.
The Democratic candidate also claimed that they are not enemies, they are Americans.
“We may be opponents — but we are not enemies,” he wrote on Twitter. “We are Americans.”
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