US ELECTIONS: JOE BIDEN EDGES CLOSER TO VICTORY AS TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS PROTEST VOTES
In what seems to be one of the most nerve-racking elections in US history, Joe Biden is taking the lead over Donald Trump in the race to secure the Presidential Seat at the White House.
Currently, Biden has secured 264 States as opposed to Trump's 214. The race is not over, as the winner must secure 270 electoral votes to win.
Voting has closed, and vote counts in key states like Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina would decide the winner.
Recall that Donald Trump prematurely declared himself the winner of the election and hinted that vote counting should stop. Biden promptly jarred back at the President on Twitter saying "It's not my place or Donald Trump's place to declare the winner of this election. It's the voters' place."
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It's not my place or Donald Trump's place to declare the winner of this election. It's the voters' place.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 4, 2020
Trump's Tweet prompted his supporters to stage protests. In Phoenix, Arizona, hundreds of protesters including an Arizona congressman Paul Gosar, converged at the Maricopa County Election office where votes were being counted on Wednesday, November 4 chanting "stop the steal", "count those votes."
Gosar told journalists "We're not going to let this election be stolen, Period."
But the protest did not stop vote counting in the State with the voting streamed live.
Responding to the protest, the Maricopa County Elections Department
"Staff at the @maricopacounty Elections Department will continue our job, which is to administer elections in the second largest voting jurisdiction in the county. We will release results again tonight as planned. We thank the @mcsoaz for doing their job, so we can do ours."
Staff at the @maricopacounty Elections Department will continue our job, which is to administer elections in the second largest voting jurisdiction in the county. We will release results again tonight as planned. We thank the @mcsoaz for doing their job, so we can do ours.
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