President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election was affirmed as the electors of the Electoral College cast their votes, giving Biden a 306 electoral votes to 232 for President Trump. Not one elector voted faithlessly. The Electoral College vote went smoothly with no dramas, and the vote successfully affirms Biden’s victory, putting a close to President Trump’s allegations of voter fraud and this election being “rigged” (no evidence has been found of election-rigging or voter fraud).
As the U.S. begins its COVID-19 vaccination program, with the first vaccines being distributed out Monday, the Electoral College voted for Joe Biden on the same day, ushering in a new era of American politics and marking the beginning of the end of both the pandemic (which has already claimed 300,000 American lives) and the administration’s attempts to overturn the results of a fair, free election.
Since his stunning defeat in the November 3, 2020, U.S. presidential election (and arguably before that), President Trump has embarked on a journey to try and overturn the results of the election, an election which he lost fair and square. The stress-test on America’s democratic institutions showed that American democracy would prevail, once again scoring a victory for the founding fathers back in the 1780s who drafted up this system. It seems, once again, the American system of democracy has won once again.
The next step is for Congress to certify the electoral votes when the 117th Congress is seated on January 6, 2021. Congress is expected to certify the votes, despite some Republican and Trump loyalists claiming that there is still the opportunity for Congress to declare the votes null and void (this is highly unlikely to happen).
In fact, some states have seen groups of Trump allies gather together and try to send electoral votes for Trump through to Congress, but they will likely be ignored and will have no impact on the final outcome of the 2020 election. And even though Trump continues to claim that the outcome has not been finalized, the election is over. There is no way that any U.S. court will accept a Trump campaign lawsuit (especially after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a major lawsuit from Republicans) with the electoral votes now having been cast.
The next step is Biden’s inauguration, which will occur at noon Eastern on January 20, 2021. This inauguration is expected to be scaled back due to coronavirus restrictions.
Today’s Electoral College vote puts Joe Biden one step closer to the presidency, and to restoring a sense of decency in America and repairing a deeply divided country and helping it recover from a deadly global pandemic that has infected 16.6 million and killed 301,000 Americans.
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