US media reported, Friday, that the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, turned the tables in Georgia and Nevada, while the incumbent president and Republican candidate, Donald Trump, strengthened his progress in Pennsylvania.
CNN reported that Biden is ahead of Trump by 917 votes in closely related presidential elections, dependent on very narrow margins in a handful of states, while Trump has stepped up his legal efforts to influence the vote count and launched new accusations of election fraud.
Biden, the former US Vice President, continues to reduce the gap which Trump is leading in the states of Pennsylvania and Georgia while maintaining a slight margin of progress in the states of Nevada and Arizona, approaching 270 votes in the electoral college that determines the winner.
The margins between Trump and Biden have narrowed in three of the four states as results poured in from vote counting centers, and anxious Americans await the clarity of the situation after a very stressful and dangerous election.
In Pennsylvania, Trump is leading over Biden by over 26,000 votes, with nearly 96 percent of the vote counted.
As for Nevada, Biden is leading by more than 11,000 votes after counting about 90 percent of the votes, while North Carolina saw Trump lead nearly 80,000 votes after about 97 percent of the votes were counted.
On his part, Trump made baseless accusations on Thursday of rigging the votes of the electorate, to falsely say that his rival was trying to seize power. It was an extraordinary effort by an American president to sow doubt in the democratic process.
"This is the case when they try to steal the election," Trump said from a stage in the White House press briefing room. "They are trying to rig the elections."
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The president's statements deepened feelings of anxiety in the United States, as Americans enter their third full day after the elections, without knowing who will take over the president during the next four years.
His comments also sparked a rebuke from some Republicans, especially those looking to steer the party in a different direction in the post-Trump era.
Why Georgia?
Georgia is a traditionally Republican state, and it has been the focus of attention for Democrats for decades of elections, but they have always failed to win it.
In the 2016 presidential election, Trump won Georgia by 5 percentage points, or about 211,000 votes, over his then-Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton.
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"In Georgia, there are conservative rural voters, and there are more democratic and perse urban and suburban voters who are becoming more democratic over time," explains the University of Georgia political science professor Charles Pollock.
"Urban areas are growing, and as they grow, the Democrats are getting closer and closer to getting 50 percent of the state's vote," Pollock said.
Atlanta's perse suburbs were already worrying Republicans before 2020, but it appears they have been the center of Democrat power this year.
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