By Sarah Burnett
The 2020 Presidential Election is going to go down in history as one of the most controversial and nail-biting elections in United States history. President Donald J. Trump is running for re-election as a Republican, and former Vice President Joe is running for election as a Democrat. As of Thursday, November 5th, 2020, Joe Biden has maintained a steady lead over President Donald Trump in terms of electoral votes, while key swing states are slowly but surely counting their mail-in ballots. While it is still too early to call the winner, it seems as if Joe Biden is more likely to win the election; leading 253-214 in electoral votes, and 73 million-69 million in popular votes.
Months before the election, it was expected that there would be a major increase in mail-in ballots because of the pandemic. The American people want to protect their health and remain in quarantine, which makes the mail-in ballots a great option for many. However, President Donald Trump has led many to believe that the American people should not trust the mail-in ballots, calling them “a whole big scam.” He believes that the mail-in ballots would lead to the “most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in [the United States’] history.” However, the majority of Donald Trump’s voter fraud claims are being flagged by Twitter as very inaccurate/unreliable, and almost all news stations are refusing to televise his claims because of how inaccurate they are. The Washington Post completed an analysis of voter fraud within three states, and the chance of there being fraud occured is less than “0.0025%.” There was also a voter fraud study completed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in April of 2020, and they found that the level of voter fraud is “exceedingly rare” with voter fraud occurring in only “0.00006%” of instances nationally.
Consequently, an overwhelming majority of mail-in ballots are democratic. It makes a great deal of sense how Biden has flipped Republican states to be Democratic overnight. The American people watched how many states were initially red, but then turned blue because of mail-in ballots being counted days after Election Day. President Donald Trump thought he was going to win the election, before most of the mail-in ballots were counted, hence he claimed victory on Twitter and gave somewhat of a victory speech in the early morning of November 4th. Wisconsin and Michigan are two prime examples of why the President, and the American people, got excited about an election result too fast. Those states were initially red, and then once the mail-in ballots were counted, they turned out to be blue. We, the American People, all have to remember that this election is metaphorically a marathon, not a sprint. We must trust the process of making sure that all of the votes are counted before we announce a winner.
The American people are watching nervously as Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania are counting their remaining mail-in ballots. Georgia has 99% of their votes counted, yet there is an 1,208 vote difference, and the result is too close to call- with President Donald Trump in the lead, and 1% of the votes have yet to be counted; There are approximately 4,000 remaining ballots to be counted which are coming from one of the most democratic counties in the state of Georgia. If Joe Biden can win Arizona and Nevada, which he is currently in the lead for, he will win the election. He could also win Pennsylvania by itself, and not need any of the other swing states to win. This is why the American people have their eyes on Pennsylvania, because if President Donald Trump wins Pennsylvania, he will still have the opportunity to win re-election, but if Joe Biden wins it, he will win the entire election.
It is looking as if Joe Biden will most likely win the 2020 Presidential Election. I will be continuing my coverage on this election, so stay tuned for updates in the near future. The American people will most likely know the winner by next week, and it is important to trust the democratic process of counting all of the votes.