<p>German Defence Minister on Wednesday disapproved of US President Donald Trump's assertion saying that he had already won US presidential Elections 2020.</p>

<p>Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said that the US was facing a "very explosive situation" as a result of President Donald Trump's assertion.&nbsp;</p>

<p>"This election has not been decided... votes are still being counted," Kramp-Karrenbauer told public broadcaster ZDF. She further said that Trump could create a constitutional crisis in the USA.</p>

<p>She said Trump could create "a constitutional crisis in the USA", calling such a scenario "something that must deeply concern us".</p>

<p><strong>Also read|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/photos/us-election-2020-historical-firsts-in-the-presidential-election-340498" hreflang="en">US election 2020: Historical firsts in the presidential election</a></strong></p>

<p>The minister, who is also head of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party, said it appeared "the battle over the legitimacy of the result, however, it turns out, has begun".</p>

<p>She admitted that the German-US relationship had faced "a tough test in the past four years" with fierce Trump criticism of Berlin over trade and military spending.</p>

<p>However, she said, "this friendship is more than a question of which administration is currently in the White House", saying she dismissed calls in Germany to "decouple ourselves from the United States".</p>

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<p>Meanwhile, France's finance chief asserted Wednesday that the&nbsp;outcome of the presidential&nbsp;vote&nbsp;will have little impact on US-Europe trade relations.</p>

<p>"Let's not kid ourselves. The United States has not been a friendly partner to European states for several years now," Bruno Le Maire told Radio Classique.</p>

<p>"Whether Joe Biden or Donald Trump is elected by Americans tonight or tomorrow, nothing changes this strategic fact," he said. "The American continent has detached itself from the European continent."</p>

<p>The US administration has inflicted billions of dollars' worth of tariffs on European imports over the past four years, with Trump claiming unfair barriers against American firms trying to compete on continental markets.</p>

<p><strong>Also read:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/german-minister-warns-of-explosive-situation-after-trumps-declaration-of-victory-340518" hreflang="en">German minister warns of 'explosive situation' after Trump's declaration of victory</a></strong></p>

<p>Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday refrained from commenting on a potential U.S. election victor, but reiterated his support for Donald Trump, and suggested Joe Biden would interfere on issues like protecting the Amazon rainforest if elected.</p>

<p>"You know my position, it is clear... I have a good policy with Trump, I hope he will be reelected," he told supporters in Brasilia. "The Democratic candidate on two occasions talked about the Amazon. Is that what you want for Brazil? Interference from outside?"</p>

<p>Demonstrators burned US flags and marched through Portland armed with protest songs and assault rifles as a confusing&nbsp;election&nbsp;night unfolded to high tension but without violence in the northwestern city.</p>

<p>The liberal enclave in the state of Oregon had braced for possible armed clashes after months of divisive rallies involving left-wing activists, right-wing militias, and federal officers deployed by the Trump administration.</p>

<p>As President Donald Trump claimed he won the US&nbsp;election&nbsp;early Wednesday, despite key states still counting ballots, activists gathered outside the Portland federal courthouse -- the epicenter of the summer's fraught anti-racism protests.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Many at the courthouse shouted slogans against Trump as well as Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, a bogeyman for anti-police protesters who won re-election&nbsp;Tuesday, while others danced and twerked to loud hip-hop music.</p>

<p>The FBI has warned of the potential for armed clashes in Portland linked to the polls, but there were no signs of&nbsp;election&nbsp;night activity from right-wing groups such as the Proud Boys.</p>

<p>Slovenia's conservative Prime Minister Janez&nbsp;Jansa&nbsp;congratulated US President Donald Trump on Wednesday for winning re-election even though neither Trump nor challenger Joe Biden has yet won an outright victory.</p>

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German Defence Minister on Wednesday disapproved of US President Donald Trump's assertion saying that he had already won US presidential Elections 2020. Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said that the US was facing a "very explosive situation" as a result of President Donald Trump's assertion.

German Defence Minister on Wednesday disapproved of US President Donald Trump's assertion saying that he had already won US presidential Elections 2020. Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said that the US was facing a "very explosive situation" as a result of President Donald Trump's assertion. "This election has not been decided... votes are still being counted," Kramp-Karrenbauer told public broadcaster ZDF. She further said that Trump could create a constitutional crisis in the USA. She said Trump could create "a constitutional crisis in the USA", calling such a scenario "something that must deeply concern us". Also read| US election 2020: Historical firsts in the presidential election The minister, who is also head of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party, said it appeared "the battle over the legitimacy of the result, however, it turns out, has begun". She admitted that the German-US relationship had faced "a tough test in the past four years" with fierce Trump criticism of Berlin over trade and military spending. However, she said, "this friendship is more than a question of which administration is currently in the White House", saying she dismissed calls in Germany to "decouple ourselves from the United States". Meanwhile, France's finance chief asserted Wednesday that the outcome of the presidential vote will have little impact on US-Europe trade relations. "Let's not kid ourselves. The United States has not been a friendly partner to European states for several years now," Bruno Le Maire told Radio Classique. "Whether Joe Biden or Donald Trump is elected by Americans tonight or tomorrow, nothing changes this strategic fact," he said. "The American continent has detached itself from the European continent." The US administration has inflicted billions of dollars' worth of tariffs on European imports over the past four years, with Trump claiming unfair barriers against American firms trying to compete on continental markets. Also read: German minister warns of 'explosive situation' after Trump's declaration of victory Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday refrained from commenting on a potential U.S. election victor, but reiterated his support for Donald Trump, and suggested Joe Biden would interfere on issues like protecting the Amazon rainforest if elected. "You know my position, it is clear... I have a good policy with Trump, I hope he will be reelected," he told supporters in Brasilia. "The Democratic candidate on two occasions talked about the Amazon. Is that what you want for Brazil? Interference from outside?" Demonstrators burned US flags and marched through Portland armed with protest songs and assault rifles as a confusing election night unfolded to high tension but without violence in the northwestern city. The liberal enclave in the state of Oregon had braced for possible armed clashes after months of divisive rallies involving left-wing activists, right-wing militias, and federal officers deployed by the Trump administration. As President Donald Trump claimed he won the US election early Wednesday, despite key states still counting ballots, activists gathered outside the Portland federal courthouse -- the epicenter of the summer's fraught anti-racism protests. Many at the courthouse shouted slogans against Trump as well as Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, a bogeyman for anti-police protesters who won re-election Tuesday, while others danced and twerked to loud hip-hop music. The FBI has warned of the potential for armed clashes in Portland linked to the polls, but there were no signs of election night activity from right-wing groups such as the Proud Boys. Slovenia's conservative Prime Minister Janez Jansa congratulated US President Donald Trump on Wednesday for winning re-election even though neither Trump nor challenger Joe Biden has yet won an outright victory. It’s pretty clear that American people have elected ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ ⁦@Mike_Pence⁩ for #4moreyears. More delays and facts denying from #MSM, bigger the final triumph for #POTUS. Congratulations ⁦@GOP⁩ for strong results across the #US ⁦@idualliance⁩ ⁦ pic.twitter.com/vzSwt9TBeF — Janez Janša (@JJansaSDS) November 4, 2020 ×

US election 2020: World leaders react on the presidential election

<p>The <a href="https://www.wionews.com/us-election"><strong>US elections</strong></a> are in full swing and people have come out in large numbers to choose their next president from the Democratic nominee&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.wionews.com/topics/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>&nbsp;</strong>and the&nbsp;current President&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.wionews.com/topics/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>&nbsp;</strong>who is representing the Republican Party. The minority communities are playing a huge role in the elections this year, especially due to the Black Lives Matter movement which negatively affected Trump's campaign.</p>

<p>However, the Latino community has come out in a larger number this year to support the President, who has often&nbsp;been labelled as 'racist' by his opponents and Americans who want to "vote him out".&nbsp; An exit poll by the American organisation CNN International, Trump managed to gain 2 in 5 votes among the community in the state of Florida, which is an increase of nearly 35 per cent in 2016.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/us-election-2020-result-live-update-donald-trump-joe-biden-votes-tally-president-predictions-begins-vote-count-how-to-follow-the-2020-us-election-results-from-india-Trump-wins-Kentucky-joe-Biden-Vermont-340293"><strong>US election 2020 result LIVE updates: Biden set to win NY as polls close in more than a dozen states</strong></a></p>

<p>This figure has come as a shock to the Democratic party as their 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton had managed to secure a 62 per cent support by the Latino community in the state. Joe Biden, however, has not been able to&nbsp;manage to win support from the community.</p>

<p>Biden, however, has been able to gain support from seniors and independents in the Sunshine State — a voter bank that has not supported Trump this election.&nbsp;Biden has captured nearly half of the voters under the age of 65 and older, which is higher than what the previous Democratic candidate was able to secure, i.e. 40 per cent. More than half of independents, too, have chosen to support Biden instead of trump, which is again a massive increase from the&nbsp;43 per cent supporters from the 2016 elections.</p>

<p>Interestingly, Biden also did not get a lot of support from the Latino community in the states of&nbsp;Georgia and Ohio — two of the key states for this year's elections.&nbsp;</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/us-election-2020-joe-biden-wins-delaware-district-of-columbia-maryland-massachusetts-trump-wins-oklahoma-340312"><strong>READ MORE |&nbsp;Joe Biden wins Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts; Trump wins Oklahoma</strong></a></p>

<p>The decrease in support for Biden has come after Trump went out of his way to show support for the Latino local brands and community this year during his election campaigns. The poll also revealed that the decrease in support for the Democrats this year in the Latino community is mainly as they fear the former vice President will close down the economy to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus if elected. The community is worried about a sharp decline in the economy and the negative effect it will have on their daily household expenses.</p>

<p>Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the US citizens have had to face major economic losses as many of them have been laid off and businesses have had to shut down which has left many homes without a stable daily wage.</p>

<p>The results will be soon be clear, but on ething that is getting quite evident from the early polls is that the Latino community, this year in Florida, has decided to choose Trump's economy over Biden's coronavirus relief plan.</p>


The US elections are in full swing and people have come out in large numbers to choose their next president from the Democratic nominee Joe Biden and the current President Donald Trump who is representing the Republican Party.

The US elections are in full swing and people have come out in large numbers to choose their next president from the Democratic nominee Joe Biden and the current President Donald Trump who is representing the Republican Party. The minority communities are playing a huge role in the elections this year, especially due to the Black Lives Matter movement which negatively affected Trump's campaign. However, the Latino community has come out in a larger number this year to support the President, who has often been labelled as 'racist' by his opponents and Americans who want to "vote him out". An exit poll by the American organisation CNN International, Trump managed to gain 2 in 5 votes among the community in the state of Florida, which is an increase of nearly 35 per cent in 2016. US election 2020 result LIVE updates: Biden set to win NY as polls close in more than a dozen states This figure has come as a shock to the Democratic party as their 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton had managed to secure a 62 per cent support by the Latino community in the state. Joe Biden, however, has not been able to manage to win support from the community. Biden, however, has been able to gain support from seniors and independents in the Sunshine State — a voter bank that has not supported Trump this election. Biden has captured nearly half of the voters under the age of 65 and older, which is higher than what the previous Democratic candidate was able to secure, i.e. 40 per cent. More than half of independents, too, have chosen to support Biden instead of trump, which is again a massive increase from the 43 per cent supporters from the 2016 elections. Interestingly, Biden also did not get a lot of support from the Latino community in the states of Georgia and Ohio — two of the key states for this year's elections. READ MORE | Joe Biden wins Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts; Trump wins Oklahoma The decrease in support for Biden has come after Trump went out of his way to show support for the Latino local brands and community this year during his election campaigns. The poll also revealed that the decrease in support for the Democrats this year in the Latino community is mainly as they fear the former vice President will close down the economy to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus if elected. The community is worried about a sharp decline in the economy and the negative effect it will have on their daily household expenses. Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the US citizens have had to face major economic losses as many of them have been laid off and businesses have had to shut down which has left many homes without a stable daily wage. The results will be soon be clear, but on ething that is getting quite evident from the early polls is that the Latino community, this year in Florida, has decided to choose Trump's economy over Biden's coronavirus relief plan.

More Latinos support Donald Trump in US Election 2020: Exit poll

<p>Voters returned nearly 64 million mail-in ballots before Election Day, a pandemic-driven record that is certain to make for a more complicated vote count this year but could also reshape American elections for years to come.</p>

<p>The counting has begun. But there will be major differences among battleground states in how that plays out, and potential legal challenges — particularly from the Trump campaign — are likely to further complicate the process.</p>

<p>Some battleground states, like North Carolina, have been processing ballots for weeks. Election officials there expected at least 97% of votes to be counted on Tuesday night. But in one of the most hotly contested states, Pennsylvania, the Trump campaign and Republican allies blocked counties from processing votes ahead of the election.</p>

<p>Mail-in balloting this year doubled from 2016, and for many voters, the shift has been a revelation.</p>

<p>In Atlanta, Frank Casaceli ran up the stairs of a library on the Georgia State University campus on Sunday, placed his absentee ballot in an official county drop box, and quickly headed back to his parked car. At age 42, it was the first time he had ever voted.</p>

<p>“Usually I work 12 hours a day,” Casaceli said, explaining why he had skipped out on the polls for the past two decades. The convenience factor, driving to the drop box on a traffic-free Sunday afternoon and skipping the lines at polls, had removed a major impediment to his participation.</p>

<p>Casaceli voted for Trump, who has spent much of the 2020 campaign admonishing people like him, who cast their mail-in ballots in the closing days of the election. Trump returned to the issue on Monday at a rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina.</p>

<p>“Get your ballots in and have them in long before the 3rd, and have them counted before the 3rd,” he said, while assailing a recent Supreme Court ruling that rebuffed his campaign’s attempt to curtail the acceptance of Pennsylvania ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive in election offices up to three days later.</p>

<p>“What a ruling, what a horrible thing that they’ve done,” he said of the court. “Do you know that puts our country in danger? Do you know what can happen during that long period of time?” he said. Then, answering his own question, he said, “Cheating can happen like you’ve never seen.”</p>

<p>The president’s persistent claims of a rigged election, however, are baseless. But with more Democrats voting by mail than Republicans, Trump has tried to sow doubts about the process and the validity of those ballots.</p>

<p>“I don’t care how hard Donald Trump tries, there’s nothing, nothing he can do to stop the people of this nation from voting, no matter how he tries,” former Vice President Joe Biden said at a rally in Pittsburgh. “Trump doesn’t want y’all voting. He doesn’t want Americans voting. He thinks only wealthy folks should vote. And when America votes, though, America will be heard.”</p>

<p>Five states were already largely voting by mail in the years before the pandemic: Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii and Utah. Now the rest of the country appears to be moving in that direction as well, notwithstanding the president’s stance, concerns that absentee votes have a higher rejection rate than in-person votes, or stories of ballots that were never delivered or went astray. (Absentee and mail-in votes are largely interchangeable terms.)</p>

<p>“I believe the usage of mail balloting in this election will continue a trend towards expanded mail balloting that we’ve seen across the country. In particular, states with permanent absentee ballot lists will likely see their numbers swell, which may eventually lead the way to all-mail ballot elections,” said Michael McDonald, a professor of political science at the University of Florida.</p>

<p>This year’s mail-in vote totals will climb well past the nearly 64 million that election officials had recorded through Monday. Some ballots have already arrived at election offices around the country but have not yet been entered into the system. Others have been mailed, but not yet delivered.</p>

<p>McDonald, who tracks election statistics, says that, as of Tuesday, just over 28 million absentee ballots requested by voters had not been entered as returned to election officials. In an analysis posted on his website, he said that those ballots were rightly a concern to Democrats, but that there still might be time for many of them to be counted.</p>

<p>While many states required that ballots arrive at election offices by the close of polls Tuesday, some permit extra time, as long as the ballots are postmarked by Election Day.</p>

<p>About 15 election workers in Fulton County, home to Atlanta, were busy Monday processing ballots in a large room at the State Farm Arena — space lent to the county by the Atlanta Hawks basketball team.</p>

<p>Huddled around white plastic Postal Service trays containing tens of thousands of ballots, the workers were methodically opening them, placing ballots and envelopes in separate stacks, then scanning the ballots into machines resembling large printers.</p>

<p>While the scanning is ongoing, the actual vote tallying will not take place until after polls close, but having the ballots already scanned is a significant advantage.</p>

<p>By contrast, Republicans who control the Pennsylvania Legislature thwarted efforts by county leaders and the governor to begin processing mail-in ballots there, which as a result did not begin until Election Day.</p>

<p>“The legislature has refused to give counties the time they need,” said Amber McReynolds, chief executive of the National Vote at Home Institute, which advocates voting by mail, and the former head of Denver’s election system. “When the president started tweeting about vote by mail, we pretty much lost all the momentum we had with legislatures in certain states. I really wish we hadn’t had the tweeting.”</p>

<p>Trump originally voiced concern in March, during an appearance on “Fox &amp;amp; Friends,” that Republicans would never be elected again if coronavirus-related voting changes championed by Democrats were enacted. Those concerns could have been the underlying reason for his subsequent repeated claims that voting by mail was vulnerable to mischief. By July, Trump was claiming that it would lead to large-scale election fraud.</p>

<p>Some Republicans worried that the president’s assault on mail voting had undermined efforts at both the party’s national and state levels to encourage its voters to apply for absentee ballots.</p>

<p>After all, it was Republicans who had pioneered a strategy during the 1980s of promoting absentee voting, focusing on Floridians who escaped to milder climates during the summer.</p>

<p>One advantage of the mail voting process is its convenience for people whose work schedules are busy or inflexible. Frequently they are lower-paid workers whose votes skew Democratic.</p>

<p>Democrats have embraced mail-in ballots in this election at a far higher rate than Republicans, according to numbers from states that report the party registration of voters.</p>

<p>In the battleground state of Florida, a major prize with 29 electoral votes, 2.1 million Democrats have returned mail ballots compared with 1.4 million Republicans. (Republicans in Florida lead, however, in early, in-person voting, a separate category of early voting.)</p>

<p>Despite the convenience of mail voting, and the possibility that it is partly responsible for turnout increases this year, it has downsides. In every election there are votes that go uncounted because of machine malfunctions or other snafus. Research shows that those votes, known as the “undercount,” are higher when mail ballots are used.</p>

<p>Part of the undercount this year — a yet-undetermined number — is made up of those voters who applied for absentee ballots but did not receive them.</p>

<p>A Gwinnett County, Georgia, man, Patrick Boyle, had planned to cast a vote for Biden. But Boyle, who is working temporarily in the wine industry in Oregon, received his Georgia ballot on Saturday — too late to use it — even though he requested it more than a month ago.</p>

<p>A postal worker came to his door and delivered the ballot in a good-sized box, first requesting to see his identification.</p>

<p>“Everything about it was confusing,” said Boyle, 27. “The return address is some warehouse in Detroit.”</p>

<p>Boyle’s partner, who had requested a ballot from Fulton County, Georgia, in September, never got hers at all, he said.</p>

<p>Amid Trump’s criticism of mail-in voting, he himself cast an absentee ballot this year, as he has in the past — and as have some of his supporters.</p>

<p>Rose Bryant, a 68-year-old retiree who attended Trump’s rally Monday in Fayetteville, said “I don’t like it” when asked about the move to broader mail-in voting, even though she and her husband have cast absentee ballots in the past. “This is how Democrats find a way to cheat.”</p>


Voters returned nearly 64 million mail-in ballots before Election Day, a pandemic-driven record that is certain to make for a more complicated vote count this year but could also reshape American elections for years to come.

Voters returned nearly 64 million mail-in ballots before Election Day, a pandemic-driven record that is certain to make for a more complicated vote count this year but could also reshape American elections for years to come. The counting has begun. But there will be major differences among battleground states in how that plays out, and potential legal challenges — particularly from the Trump campaign — are likely to further complicate the process. Some battleground states, like North Carolina, have been processing ballots for weeks. Election officials there expected at least 97% of votes to be counted on Tuesday night. But in one of the most hotly contested states, Pennsylvania, the Trump campaign and Republican allies blocked counties from processing votes ahead of the election. Mail-in balloting this year doubled from 2016, and for many voters, the shift has been a revelation. In Atlanta, Frank Casaceli ran up the stairs of a library on the Georgia State University campus on Sunday, placed his absentee ballot in an official county drop box, and quickly headed back to his parked car. At age 42, it was the first time he had ever voted. “Usually I work 12 hours a day,” Casaceli said, explaining why he had skipped out on the polls for the past two decades. The convenience factor, driving to the drop box on a traffic-free Sunday afternoon and skipping the lines at polls, had removed a major impediment to his participation. Casaceli voted for Trump, who has spent much of the 2020 campaign admonishing people like him, who cast their mail-in ballots in the closing days of the election. Trump returned to the issue on Monday at a rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina. “Get your ballots in and have them in long before the 3rd, and have them counted before the 3rd,” he said, while assailing a recent Supreme Court ruling that rebuffed his campaign’s attempt to curtail the acceptance of Pennsylvania ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive in election offices up to three days later. “What a ruling, what a horrible thing that they’ve done,” he said of the court. “Do you know that puts our country in danger? Do you know what can happen during that long period of time?” he said. Then, answering his own question, he said, “Cheating can happen like you’ve never seen.” The president’s persistent claims of a rigged election, however, are baseless. But with more Democrats voting by mail than Republicans, Trump has tried to sow doubts about the process and the validity of those ballots. “I don’t care how hard Donald Trump tries, there’s nothing, nothing he can do to stop the people of this nation from voting, no matter how he tries,” former Vice President Joe Biden said at a rally in Pittsburgh. “Trump doesn’t want y’all voting. He doesn’t want Americans voting. He thinks only wealthy folks should vote. And when America votes, though, America will be heard.” Five states were already largely voting by mail in the years before the pandemic: Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii and Utah. Now the rest of the country appears to be moving in that direction as well, notwithstanding the president’s stance, concerns that absentee votes have a higher rejection rate than in-person votes, or stories of ballots that were never delivered or went astray. (Absentee and mail-in votes are largely interchangeable terms.) “I believe the usage of mail balloting in this election will continue a trend towards expanded mail balloting that we’ve seen across the country. In particular, states with permanent absentee ballot lists will likely see their numbers swell, which may eventually lead the way to all-mail ballot elections,” said Michael McDonald, a professor of political science at the University of Florida. This year’s mail-in vote totals will climb well past the nearly 64 million that election officials had recorded through Monday. Some ballots have already arrived at election offices around the country but have not yet been entered into the system. Others have been mailed, but not yet delivered. McDonald, who tracks election statistics, says that, as of Tuesday, just over 28 million absentee ballots requested by voters had not been entered as returned to election officials. In an analysis posted on his website, he said that those ballots were rightly a concern to Democrats, but that there still might be time for many of them to be counted. While many states required that ballots arrive at election offices by the close of polls Tuesday, some permit extra time, as long as the ballots are postmarked by Election Day. About 15 election workers in Fulton County, home to Atlanta, were busy Monday processing ballots in a large room at the State Farm Arena — space lent to the county by the Atlanta Hawks basketball team. Huddled around white plastic Postal Service trays containing tens of thousands of ballots, the workers were methodically opening them, placing ballots and envelopes in separate stacks, then scanning the ballots into machines resembling large printers. While the scanning is ongoing, the actual vote tallying will not take place until after polls close, but having the ballots already scanned is a significant advantage. By contrast, Republicans who control the Pennsylvania Legislature thwarted efforts by county leaders and the governor to begin processing mail-in ballots there, which as a result did not begin until Election Day. “The legislature has refused to give counties the time they need,” said Amber McReynolds, chief executive of the National Vote at Home Institute, which advocates voting by mail, and the former head of Denver’s election system. “When the president started tweeting about vote by mail, we pretty much lost all the momentum we had with legislatures in certain states. I really wish we hadn’t had the tweeting.” Trump originally voiced concern in March, during an appearance on “Fox &amp; Friends,” that Republicans would never be elected again if coronavirus-related voting changes championed by Democrats were enacted. Those concerns could have been the underlying reason for his subsequent repeated claims that voting by mail was vulnerable to mischief. By July, Trump was claiming that it would lead to large-scale election fraud. Some Republicans worried that the president’s assault on mail voting had undermined efforts at both the party’s national and state levels to encourage its voters to apply for absentee ballots. After all, it was Republicans who had pioneered a strategy during the 1980s of promoting absentee voting, focusing on Floridians who escaped to milder climates during the summer. One advantage of the mail voting process is its convenience for people whose work schedules are busy or inflexible. Frequently they are lower-paid workers whose votes skew Democratic. Democrats have embraced mail-in ballots in this election at a far higher rate than Republicans, according to numbers from states that report the party registration of voters. In the battleground state of Florida, a major prize with 29 electoral votes, 2.1 million Democrats have returned mail ballots compared with 1.4 million Republicans. (Republicans in Florida lead, however, in early, in-person voting, a separate category of early voting.) Despite the convenience of mail voting, and the possibility that it is partly responsible for turnout increases this year, it has downsides. In every election there are votes that go uncounted because of machine malfunctions or other snafus. Research shows that those votes, known as the “undercount,” are higher when mail ballots are used. Part of the undercount this year — a yet-undetermined number — is made up of those voters who applied for absentee ballots but did not receive them. A Gwinnett County, Georgia, man, Patrick Boyle, had planned to cast a vote for Biden. But Boyle, who is working temporarily in the wine industry in Oregon, received his Georgia ballot on Saturday — too late to use it — even though he requested it more than a month ago. A postal worker came to his door and delivered the ballot in a good-sized box, first requesting to see his identification. “Everything about it was confusing,” said Boyle, 27. “The return address is some warehouse in Detroit.” Boyle’s partner, who had requested a ballot from Fulton County, Georgia, in September, never got hers at all, he said. Amid Trump’s criticism of mail-in voting, he himself cast an absentee ballot this year, as he has in the past — and as have some of his supporters. Rose Bryant, a 68-year-old retiree who attended Trump’s rally Monday in Fayetteville, said “I don’t like it” when asked about the move to broader mail-in voting, even though she and her husband have cast absentee ballots in the past. “This is how Democrats find a way to cheat.”

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<p>The former President of the United States, <a href="https://www.wionews.com/topics/barack-obama"><strong>Barack Obama</strong></a>, has urged people to get out and vote. Obama has warned people that many people will try to intimidate and keep them home but Americans need to step out and vast their ballots.</p>

<p>Obama took to social media platform Twitter to encourage voters to cast their ballots, and not let anyone tell them otherwise. He told people that they have the right to vote if they are in the line. "If you are in line to vote before polls close, you have the right to vote. Stay in line for as long as it takes," he tweeted, adding the voter assistance hotline number for any queries that the voters might have.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/us-election-2020-result-live-update-donald-trump-joe-biden-votes-tally-president-predictions-begins-vote-count-how-to-follow-the-2020-us-election-results-from-india-Trump-wins-Kentucky-joe-Biden-Vermont-340293"><strong>Also read|&nbsp;US election 2020 result LIVE updates: Biden set to win NY as polls close in more than a dozen states</strong></a></p>

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<p>He also hinted that the opposition party may try to intimidate or mislead the voters. Stressing about the need to stand&nbsp;in line to cast their vote, Obama reminded Americans that this how a change will be brought in the country — an approach the Democratic Party has been taking to promote their candidate <a href="https://www.wionews.com/topics/joe-biden"><strong>Joe Biden.</strong></a></p>

<p>"There's a reason some folks are trying to make it hard for you to vote: They know that if you do, things change. And that's why the answer isn't to stay at home. It's to turn out like never before and show them what this country stands for," his tweet read.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/us-election-2020-joe-biden-wins-delaware-district-of-columbia-maryland-massachusetts-trump-wins-oklahoma-340312"><strong>READ MORE |&nbsp;Joe Biden wins Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts; Trump wins Oklahoma</strong></a></p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/everything-is-on-the-line-proclaims-obama-while-urging-americans-to-vote-340277">Obama had earlier too shared a video on Twitter </a>urging people to vote for a change. Painting a picture of poisitivity he said, "This Election Day, everything is on the line. Our jobs. Our health care. Whether or not we get this pandemic under control. But here’s the good news: today, you can choose change. You can elect&nbsp;@JoeBiden&nbsp;and&nbsp;@KamalaHarris. Let’s win this thing."</p>

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<p>Donald Trump Jr., too, took to Twitter to urge his father's supporters to get out and cast their ballots and help th trump family stay in White House for another four years. "If you are in line before the polls close they have to let you vote get in line and wait… Do not leave. Get your vote cast and get Donald Trump another four years of winning," he tweeted.</p>

<p><strong>Read More:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/trump-set-to-win-in-indiana-kentucky-exit-poll-340300">Trump set to win in Indiana, Kentucky: Exit Poll</a></strong></p>

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<p>The United States is currently voting for their next President. The fight this year is between the current President <strong><a href="https://www.wionews.com/topics/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>&nbsp;</strong>who is representing the Republican Party, and Joe Biden who is fighting for the Democrats. As of now, Trump is leading in Alabama, Mississippi,&nbsp;Arkansas,&nbsp;Oklahoma, Tennessee. Biden has wn majority in the states of&nbsp;Rhode Island, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois, Delaware and Connecticut.</p>


The former President of the United States, Barack Obama, has urged people to get out and vote. Obama has warned people that many people will try to intimidate and keep them home but Americans need to step out and vast their ballots.

The former President of the United States, Barack Obama, has urged people to get out and vote. Obama has warned people that many people will try to intimidate and keep them home but Americans need to step out and vast their ballots. Obama took to social media platform Twitter to encourage voters to cast their ballots, and not let anyone tell them otherwise. He told people that they have the right to vote if they are in the line. "If you are in line to vote before polls close, you have the right to vote. Stay in line for as long as it takes," he tweeted, adding the voter assistance hotline number for any queries that the voters might have. Also read| US election 2020 result LIVE updates: Biden set to win NY as polls close in more than a dozen states There's a reason some folks are trying to make it hard for you to vote: They know that if you do, things change. And that's why the answer isn't to stay at home. It's to turn out like never before and show them what this country stands for. — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 3, 2020 × He also hinted that the opposition party may try to intimidate or mislead the voters. Stressing about the need to stand in line to cast their vote, Obama reminded Americans that this how a change will be brought in the country — an approach the Democratic Party has been taking to promote their candidate Joe Biden. "There's a reason some folks are trying to make it hard for you to vote: They know that if you do, things change. And that's why the answer isn't to stay at home. It's to turn out like never before and show them what this country stands for," his tweet read. READ MORE | Joe Biden wins Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts; Trump wins Oklahoma Obama had earlier too shared a video on Twitter urging people to vote for a change. Painting a picture of poisitivity he said, "This Election Day, everything is on the line. Our jobs. Our health care. Whether or not we get this pandemic under control. But here’s the good news: today, you can choose change. You can elect @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris. Let’s win this thing." This Election Day, everything is on the line. Our jobs. Our health care. Whether or not we get this pandemic under control. But here’s the good news: today, you can choose change. You can elect @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris. Let’s win this thing. pic.twitter.com/rvW2uOknpl — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 3, 2020 × Donald Trump Jr., too, took to Twitter to urge his father's supporters to get out and cast their ballots and help th trump family stay in White House for another four years. "If you are in line before the polls close they have to let you vote get in line and wait… Do not leave. Get your vote cast and get Donald Trump another four years of winning," he tweeted. Read More: Trump set to win in Indiana, Kentucky: Exit Poll If you are in line before the polls close they have to let you vote get in line and wait… Do not leave. Get your vote cast and get Donald Trump another four years of winning. — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 3, 2020 × The United States is currently voting for their next President. The fight this year is between the current President Donald Trump who is representing the Republican Party, and Joe Biden who is fighting for the Democrats. As of now, Trump is leading in Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee. Biden has wn majority in the states of Rhode Island, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois, Delaware and Connecticut.

Barack Obama urges people to not let anyone mislead them near US Election 2020 result

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<p>Voters largely found the experience of casting their ballots to be an easy one, though there is a wide gap between the share of White voters who say it was very easy (roughly three-quarters) and the share of Black voters who feel the same way (about half).&nbsp;</p>

<p>A CNN Exit Poll survey has suggested that about half of the voters in the United States say they are very confident that votes in their states will be accurately cast and counted, about the same as four years ago.</p>

<p>There is, however, a wide gap between the share of White voters who say voting was very easy -- roughly three-quarters -- and the share of Black voters who feel the same way -- about half</p>

<p>The survey also suggests a high level of new voter participation. About 1 in 8 say 2020 is the first year they have ever voted, about on par with the share saying so in 2008.</p>

<p>According to CNN, their exit polls are a combination of in-person interviews with Election Day voters and telephone polls measuring the views of absentee by-mail and early voters, and were conducted by Edison Research on behalf of the National Election Pool. Results for the full sample have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups.</p>


Voters largely found the experience of casting their ballots to be an easy one, though there is a wide gap between the share of White voters who say it was very easy (roughly three-quarters) and the share of Black voters who feel the same way (about half).

Voters largely found the experience of casting their ballots to be an easy one, though there is a wide gap between the share of White voters who say it was very easy (roughly three-quarters) and the share of Black voters who feel the same way (about half). A CNN Exit Poll survey has suggested that about half of the voters in the United States say they are very confident that votes in their states will be accurately cast and counted, about the same as four years ago. There is, however, a wide gap between the share of White voters who say voting was very easy -- roughly three-quarters -- and the share of Black voters who feel the same way -- about half The survey also suggests a high level of new voter participation. About 1 in 8 say 2020 is the first year they have ever voted, about on par with the share saying so in 2008. According to CNN, their exit polls are a combination of in-person interviews with Election Day voters and telephone polls measuring the views of absentee by-mail and early voters, and were conducted by Edison Research on behalf of the National Election Pool. Results for the full sample have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points; it is larger for subgroups.

Half of voters confident their ballots will be counted accurately, CNN exit poll shows

<p>President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are battling it out for the White House, with polls gradually closing across the United States.</p>

<p>The first results have just come in, with US media projecting wins for Biden in Vermont and Virginia,&nbsp;and for Trump in West Virginia.</p>

<p>The Republican incumbent is looking poised to win in Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia -- all states he won in 2016.</p>

<p>The tally gives Trump 24 electoral votes to 16 for Biden. The magic number is 270.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Observers expect the hotly contested race for the White House to come down to a handful of key battleground states.<br />
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President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are battling it out for the White House, with polls gradually closing across the United States. The first results have just come in, with US media projecting wins for Biden in Vermont and Virginia, and for Trump in West Virginia.

President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are battling it out for the White House, with polls gradually closing across the United States. The first results have just come in, with US media projecting wins for Biden in Vermont and Virginia, and for Trump in West Virginia. The Republican incumbent is looking poised to win in Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia -- all states he won in 2016. The tally gives Trump 24 electoral votes to 16 for Biden. The magic number is 270. Observers expect the hotly contested race for the White House to come down to a handful of key battleground states.

First election results: Biden wins Vermont and Virginia, Trump takes West Virginia

Republican Donald Trump faced Democratic challenger Joe Biden on Tuesday in the U.S. presidential election. There are 538 Electoral College votes allotted to the 50 states and the District of Columbia. It takes 270 votes to win.

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India, the United States, Japan and Australia began their largest joint naval exercises in over a decade on Tuesday (November 03), seen as part of efforts to balance China's vast military and economic power in the region.

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Americans streamed to the polls on Tuesday to choose either incumbent Donald Trump or challenger Joe Biden to lead a pandemic-battered nation for the next four years. Voters lined up around the country to cast ballots, with no signs yet of disruptions at polling places that some had feared after a heated campaign marked by provocative rhetoric.

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As voters line up to vote during US elections, Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden's vice president pick Kamala Harris said "it is going to be a tight race, let's elect Joe Biden". "We have a choice in front of us and power in our hands. We need to deal with racial disparity," Kamala Harris said.

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Protesters against President Donald Trump gathered and marched in Washington DC as votes were being counted in the United States just after midnight on Wednesday (November 4).

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A failed Democratic drive to gain control the U.S. Senate could reduce the prospects for aggressive legislation to combat global climate change, even if Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden were to win the White House.

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Indian food became a political tool in #USElection2020. After Kamala Harris' 'Dosa Video', U.S. representative Pramila Jayapal shared an image of 'Paneer Tikka' dedicated to Harris but Twitterati are mocking her for getting the dish wrong. Palki Sharma Upadhyay gets you the story.

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<p>New York City Councilmember Ritchie Torres made history by winning his race to become the first openly gay, Afro-Latino person elected to Congress.</p>

<p>In a heavily Democratic district, Torres competed against 12 candidates in the Democratic primary.</p>

<p>Tonight, a new era begins for the South Bronx, Torres said in a statement.&nbsp;</p>

<p>"It is the honour of a lifetime to represent a borough filled with essential workers who have risked their lives so that New York City could live. The Bronx is essential, and the vibrant, loving and talented people who live here have shown time and again their power, fortune and perseverance. The Bronx is the heartbeat of New York City, he said.</p>

<p>Torres, who identified himself as an Afro-Latino, has served in the City Council since 2013. He defeated nearly a dozen other Democrats in the June primary after Republican Jose Serrano announced his retirement earlier this year.</p>

<p>Torres is expected to be joined by another Black gay man, Mondaire Jones, in the US House of Representatives as results were pending in the race to replace retiring Republican Nita Lowey from Westchester County. The seat is expected to go to 33-year-old Jones, a Harvard Law School graduate and former Westchester County attorney, who was leading Republican Maureen McArdle Schulman as of midnight, the report said.</p>

<p><em>(With inputs from agencies)</em></p>


New York City Councilmember Ritchie Torres made history by winning his race to become the first openly gay, Afro-Latino person elected to Congress. In a heavily Democratic district, Torres competed against 12 candidates in the Democratic primary.

New York City Councilmember Ritchie Torres made history by winning his race to become the first openly gay, Afro-Latino person elected to Congress. In a heavily Democratic district, Torres competed against 12 candidates in the Democratic primary. Tonight, a new era begins for the South Bronx, Torres said in a statement. "It is the honour of a lifetime to represent a borough filled with essential workers who have risked their lives so that New York City could live. The Bronx is essential, and the vibrant, loving and talented people who live here have shown time and again their power, fortune and perseverance. The Bronx is the heartbeat of New York City, he said. Torres, who identified himself as an Afro-Latino, has served in the City Council since 2013. He defeated nearly a dozen other Democrats in the June primary after Republican Jose Serrano announced his retirement earlier this year. Torres is expected to be joined by another Black gay man, Mondaire Jones, in the US House of Representatives as results were pending in the race to replace retiring Republican Nita Lowey from Westchester County. The seat is expected to go to 33-year-old Jones, a Harvard Law School graduate and former Westchester County attorney, who was leading Republican Maureen McArdle Schulman as of midnight, the report said. (With inputs from agencies)

US election 2020: Ritchie Torres — First openly gay, Afro-Latino member of Congress

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<p>Kristen Stewart's girlfriend&nbsp;Dylan Meyer, took to Instagram to convey a serious message through a romantic photo. Meyer, shared a black and white photo of her with Kristen, urging her fans to go out and exercise their right to vote.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The screenwriter admitted to feeling anxious ahead of the 2020 presidential election.&nbsp;&nbsp;She wrote, "I think I might chew my fingers off from nerves today but here’s a sweet photo&nbsp;@lindseybyrnes&nbsp;took," Meyer wrote in the caption. "I really hope you vote. There are lots of crucial issues on your ballot besides the presidency and your voice truly does make a difference."</p>

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She added, "The opportunity to have a say in the laws that govern you is precious, please don’t waste it."</p>

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<p style=" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CHI3r0xnUmX/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">I think I might chew my fingers off from nerves today but here’s a sweet photo @lindseybyrnes took. I really hope you vote. There are lots of crucial issues on your ballot besides the presidency and your voice truly does make a difference. The opportunity to have a say in the laws that govern you is precious, please don’t waste it.</a></p>

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<p>The Hollywood couple has been quite vocal about their right. In September, Kristen took over Meyer Instagram account and shared a photo of hers in a white tee that read VOTE.&nbsp;</p>

<p>In the caption, Kristen voiced her feelings about voting and why she wants to vote.&nbsp;“For anyone that might need to let out a little aggression today... it is national register to VOTE day." the caption read.&nbsp;</p>

<p>She further added, "I never do this but for anyone who has not registered to vote please take this opportunity to feel HEARD. And not hopeless. I am voting because I WANT to believe in our country. Because I believe in climate change. I believe in systemic racism. I believe in freedom of speech and the right to assemble. I believe in gun control. I believe that women have a right to make choices about their own bodies. I believe people have the right to live and love and identify however they feel in their hearts without fear. I believe that people care about each other."</p>

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<p style=" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CFdHd7LnIPm/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">I turned the mic over to Kristen because she had some things to say and doesn’t have her own account. Happy #nationalvoterregistrationday! “For anyone that might need to let out a little aggression today... it is national register to VOTE day. I never do this but for anyone who has not registered to vote please take this opportunity to feel HEARD. And not hopeless. I am voting because I WANT to believe in our country. Because I believe in climate change. I believe in systemic racism. I believe in freedom of speech and the right to assemble. I believe in gun control. I believe that women have a right to make choices about their own bodies. I believe people have the right to live and love and identify however they feel in their hearts without fear. I believe that people care about each other. So try and have a lovely Tuesday and vote for your fucking lives.”</a></p>

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The actor and the screenwriter have been linked&nbsp;since August 2019, a month after Stewart seemingly split from her previous girlfriend, model&nbsp;Stella Maxwell. Later,&nbsp;Stewart opened up about Meyer in an interview with Howard Stern in November 2019, saying she&nbsp;“can’t wait” to propose to her girlfriend</p>

<p>“I wanna be somewhat reasonable about it, but I think good things happen fast,” Stewart said. The&nbsp;Twilight&nbsp;actress, however, didn’t dish on any details as to when she’d propose.&nbsp;</p>
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Kristen Stewart's girlfriend Dylan Meyer, took to Instagram to convey a serious message through a romantic photo. Meyer, shared a black and white photo of her with Kristen, urging her fans to go out and exercise their right to vote.

Kristen Stewart's girlfriend Dylan Meyer, took to Instagram to convey a serious message through a romantic photo. Meyer, shared a black and white photo of her with Kristen, urging her fans to go out and exercise their right to vote. The screenwriter admitted to feeling anxious ahead of the 2020 presidential election. She wrote, "I think I might chew my fingers off from nerves today but here’s a sweet photo @lindseybyrnes took," Meyer wrote in the caption. "I really hope you vote. There are lots of crucial issues on your ballot besides the presidency and your voice truly does make a difference." She added, "The opportunity to have a say in the laws that govern you is precious, please don’t waste it." View this post on Instagram I think I might chew my fingers off from nerves today but here’s a sweet photo @lindseybyrnes took. I really hope you vote. There are lots of crucial issues on your ballot besides the presidency and your voice truly does make a difference. The opportunity to have a say in the laws that govern you is precious, please don’t waste it. A post shared by Dylan Meyer (@spillzdylz) on Nov 3, 2020 at 10:25am PST × The Hollywood couple has been quite vocal about their right. In September, Kristen took over Meyer Instagram account and shared a photo of hers in a white tee that read VOTE. In the caption, Kristen voiced her feelings about voting and why she wants to vote. “For anyone that might need to let out a little aggression today... it is national register to VOTE day." the caption read. She further added, "I never do this but for anyone who has not registered to vote please take this opportunity to feel HEARD. And not hopeless. I am voting because I WANT to believe in our country. Because I believe in climate change. I believe in systemic racism. I believe in freedom of speech and the right to assemble. I believe in gun control. I believe that women have a right to make choices about their own bodies. I believe people have the right to live and love and identify however they feel in their hearts without fear. I believe that people care about each other." View this post on Instagram I turned the mic over to Kristen because she had some things to say and doesn’t have her own account. Happy #nationalvoterregistrationday! “For anyone that might need to let out a little aggression today... it is national register to VOTE day. I never do this but for anyone who has not registered to vote please take this opportunity to feel HEARD. And not hopeless. I am voting because I WANT to believe in our country. Because I believe in climate change. I believe in systemic racism. I believe in freedom of speech and the right to assemble. I believe in gun control. I believe that women have a right to make choices about their own bodies. I believe people have the right to live and love and identify however they feel in their hearts without fear. I believe that people care about each other. So try and have a lovely Tuesday and vote for your fucking lives.” A post shared by Dylan Meyer (@spillzdylz) on Sep 22, 2020 at 3:05pm PDT × The actor and the screenwriter have been linked since August 2019, a month after Stewart seemingly split from her previous girlfriend, model Stella Maxwell. Later, Stewart opened up about Meyer in an interview with Howard Stern in November 2019, saying she “can’t wait” to propose to her girlfriend “I wanna be somewhat reasonable about it, but I think good things happen fast,” Stewart said. The Twilight actress, however, didn’t dish on any details as to when she’d propose.

Kristen Stewart's girlfriend Dylan Meyer shares a romantic photo of the couple; urges people to vote

In this episode of U.S. Election Dialogues we talk about Who will be the next US President?

LIVE: U.S. Election Dialogues : The Opinion Polls; Nov 04, 2020

<p>German Defence Minister on Wednesday disapproved of US President Donald Trump's assertion saying that he had already won US Presidential Elections 2020. Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said that US was facing a "very explosive situation" as a result of President Donald Trump's assertion.&nbsp;</p>

<p>"This election has not been decided... votes are still being counted," Kramp-Karrenbauer told public broadcaster ZDF. She further said that Trump could create a constitutional crisis in the USA.</p>

<p>Donald Trump on Wednesday addressed his supporters with his wife and First Lady Melania Trump and said that he believed that he had won the election.</p>

<p>"This is a major fraud on our country so we are going to Supreme Court as far as I am concerned we have already won it," said Trump.</p>

<p>German Defence Minister focussed on this very assertion and said that a constitutional crisis that may unfold was "something that must deeply concern us"</p>

<p>The minister, who is also head of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party, said it appeared "the battle over the legitimacy of the result, however it turns out, has begun".</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/us-election-2020-result-live-update-donald-trump-joe-biden-votes-tally-president-predictions-begins-vote-count-how-to-follow-the-2020-us-election-results-from-india-Trump-wins-Kentucky-joe-Biden-Vermont-340293"><strong>Click here for LIVE updates on US Election 2020</strong></a></p>

<p>Donald Trump has repeatedly alleged in the past the US Election 2020 was "rigged". He had also said that he would declare victory if early trends during the vote count favoured. He is seemed to have followed up on this although the race was close between him and Joe Biden when counting of votes began.</p>

<p>German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer admitted that German-US relationship had faced "a tough test in the past four years" with fierce Trump criticism of Berlin over trade and military spending.</p>

<p>However, she said, "this friendship is more than a question of which administration is currently in the White House", saying she dismissed calls in Germany to "decouple ourselves from the United States".</p>

<p>But Kramp-Karrenbauer stressed that regardless of the ultimate outcome of the US vote, Europe would need to become more self-sufficient.</p>

<p>"We will have to do a lot more for our own interests -- both as Germany and in particular with the other Europeans," she said.</p>

<p>Finance Minister Olaf Scholz echoed the sentiment, saying that given the developments in the United States, Europe needed to strengthen its own "sovereignty" so that "a rules-based global order can exist".</p>

<p>"That is why we need to take this opportunity to make Europe strong," he told reporters in Berlin.</p>

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German Defence Minister on Wednesday disapproved of US President Donald Trump's assertion saying that he had already won US Presidential Elections 2020. Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said that US was facing a "very explosive situation" as a result of President Donald Trump's assertion.

German Defence Minister on Wednesday disapproved of US President Donald Trump's assertion saying that he had already won US Presidential Elections 2020. Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said that US was facing a "very explosive situation" as a result of President Donald Trump's assertion. "This election has not been decided... votes are still being counted," Kramp-Karrenbauer told public broadcaster ZDF. She further said that Trump could create a constitutional crisis in the USA. Donald Trump on Wednesday addressed his supporters with his wife and First Lady Melania Trump and said that he believed that he had won the election. "This is a major fraud on our country so we are going to Supreme Court as far as I am concerned we have already won it," said Trump. German Defence Minister focussed on this very assertion and said that a constitutional crisis that may unfold was "something that must deeply concern us" The minister, who is also head of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party, said it appeared "the battle over the legitimacy of the result, however it turns out, has begun". Click here for LIVE updates on US Election 2020 Donald Trump has repeatedly alleged in the past the US Election 2020 was "rigged". He had also said that he would declare victory if early trends during the vote count favoured. He is seemed to have followed up on this although the race was close between him and Joe Biden when counting of votes began. German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer admitted that German-US relationship had faced "a tough test in the past four years" with fierce Trump criticism of Berlin over trade and military spending. However, she said, "this friendship is more than a question of which administration is currently in the White House", saying she dismissed calls in Germany to "decouple ourselves from the United States". But Kramp-Karrenbauer stressed that regardless of the ultimate outcome of the US vote, Europe would need to become more self-sufficient. "We will have to do a lot more for our own interests -- both as Germany and in particular with the other Europeans," she said. Finance Minister Olaf Scholz echoed the sentiment, saying that given the developments in the United States, Europe needed to strengthen its own "sovereignty" so that "a rules-based global order can exist". "That is why we need to take this opportunity to make Europe strong," he told reporters in Berlin. (With AFP inputs)

German minister warns of 'explosive situation' after Trump's declaration of victory

<p>Amid the coronavirus pandemic, US voters turned up in huge numbers as Biden and<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/us-elections-2020-country-entitled-to-know-who-won-on-november-3-says-trump-340238"> Trump</a> set their sights on key battlegrounds states including Georgia during US elections 2020.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/live-us-election-2020-donald-trump-joe-biden-more-than-98-million-voted-to-elect-the-next-president-340039">US Elections Live:&nbsp;It is going to be a tight race, says Kamala Harris to US voters</a></p>

<p>Opinion polls show<a href="https://www.wionews.com/photos/us-elections-2020-crucial-states-that-could-determine-course-of-the-race-340196#georgia-338289"> Democratic </a>presidential hopeful Joe Biden could disrupt Republican electoral power in Georgia which would be a huge setback for Trump since it is a GOP stronghold.</p>

<p>Both Trump and Biden have campaigned in the state in the hope of swinging voters who have been vacillating over their choice.&nbsp;</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/us-elections-2020-trump-biden-eye-florida-as-battleground-states-hold-sway-340285">Also Read:&nbsp;Trump, Biden eye Florida as battleground states hold sway</a></p>

<p>Biden, however, is determined to upset the Republican applecart campaigning fiercely in the state including in Warm Springs and at a drive-in car rally in Atlanta. <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/us-election-2020-aid-worker-released-from-egyptian-jail-after-trumps-intervention-asks-people-to-vote-for-biden-340283">Biden</a> had attacked Trump's performance on COVID-19 asserting that it was "capitulation" and stated that the US president "shrugged, he swaggered and he surrendered."</p>

<p>Georgia had last voted for a Democratic in the 1992 elections when Bill Clinton took the state. Biden this time hopes to overturn the Republican advantage in the Red State.</p>

<p>In fact, <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/win-or-lose-trump-and-bidens-parties-will-plunge-into-uncertainty-340281">Biden's</a> vice-presidential pick &nbsp;Kamala Harris, 56, campaigned in Atlanta, Georgia, signifying the importance of the state for the Democrats. There has been a record turnout of during the US election with over 3 million voters already exercised their franchise before polling day on November 3.</p>

<p>The crucial state has&nbsp;African-Americans in huge numbers comprising one-third of the population with&nbsp;much at stake for Democrats who hope to swing the state in their favour this time.</p>

<p>The southern state known for slavery and segregation during its history has been a Republican bastion.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The Democrats, however, have been trying to woo the African-Americans, as <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/us-elections-2020-we-have-a-choice-in-front-of-us-we-need-to-deal-with-racial-disparity-says-kamala-harris-to-us-voters-340257">Kamala Harris</a> during her campaign said: "Donald Trump has this goal to turn 20 per cent of Black men out in favour of him, Donald Trump -- who pushed, as part of his popularity, the theme that the first Black man to be president of the United States was illegitimately there."</p>


Amid the coronavirus pandemic, US voters turned up in huge numbers as Biden and Trump set their sights on key battlegrounds states including Georgia during US elections 2020.

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, US voters turned up in huge numbers as Biden and Trump set their sights on key battlegrounds states including Georgia during US elections 2020. US Elections Live: It is going to be a tight race, says Kamala Harris to US voters Opinion polls show Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden could disrupt Republican electoral power in Georgia which would be a huge setback for Trump since it is a GOP stronghold. Both Trump and Biden have campaigned in the state in the hope of swinging voters who have been vacillating over their choice. Also Read: Trump, Biden eye Florida as battleground states hold sway Biden, however, is determined to upset the Republican applecart campaigning fiercely in the state including in Warm Springs and at a drive-in car rally in Atlanta. Biden had attacked Trump's performance on COVID-19 asserting that it was "capitulation" and stated that the US president "shrugged, he swaggered and he surrendered." Georgia had last voted for a Democratic in the 1992 elections when Bill Clinton took the state. Biden this time hopes to overturn the Republican advantage in the Red State. In fact, Biden's vice-presidential pick Kamala Harris, 56, campaigned in Atlanta, Georgia, signifying the importance of the state for the Democrats. There has been a record turnout of during the US election with over 3 million voters already exercised their franchise before polling day on November 3. The crucial state has African-Americans in huge numbers comprising one-third of the population with much at stake for Democrats who hope to swing the state in their favour this time. The southern state known for slavery and segregation during its history has been a Republican bastion. The Democrats, however, have been trying to woo the African-Americans, as Kamala Harris during her campaign said: "Donald Trump has this goal to turn 20 per cent of Black men out in favour of him, Donald Trump -- who pushed, as part of his popularity, the theme that the first Black man to be president of the United States was illegitimately there."

Key states in US elections 2020: Biden hopes to turn 'Red' Georgia into 'Blue' as Trump struggles

President Donald Trump falsely claimed victory over Democratic rival Joe Biden on Wednesday (November 4) with millions of votes still uncounted in a White House race that will not be decided until a handful of states complete vote-counting over the next hours or days.

Donald Trump falsely claims victory with results from key states unclear

Anti-Trump protesters march in D.C. on election night | US Election 2020

<p>Key states in US Election 2020: As voters all across America exercised their franchise, US President Donald <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/us-elections-2020-country-entitled-to-know-who-won-on-november-3-says-trump-340238">Trump</a> predicted that he would win "very big" in Florida. |<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/live-us-election-2020-donald-trump-joe-biden-more-than-98-million-voted-to-elect-the-next-president-340039"> Follow - US Elections Live Update</a></p>

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<p>"We think we are winning Texas very big. We think we are winning <strong>Florida </strong>very big. We think we are winning Arizona very big," Trump said.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/photos/us-elections-2020-crucial-states-that-could-determine-course-of-the-race-340196">Also See:&nbsp;Crucial states that could determine course of the race</a></p>

<p>Florida is a key battleground state which is critical for Trump's presidency, and a goldmine for Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden.</p>

<p>According to opinion polls in Florida, <strong>Biden</strong> has a 1.7 point lead over Trump. The US president had won Florida and 29 electoral votes in the last elections as he stole the show from Hillary Clinton in 2016.</p>

<p>Trump has toured Florida and made his pitch amid the<a href="https://www.wionews.com/business-economy/us-elections-2020-on-election-day-wall-street-ends-on-a-high-dow-up-over-2-340279"> US elections</a>. The US president had taken Wisconsin, <strong>Pennsylvania</strong>, Michigan, Ohio and Iowa in 2016 as he surprised political experts who gave him little chance of victory.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/photos/us-election-2020-heres-what-voting-looks-like-in-uncertain-times-340260">Read |&nbsp;US election 2020: Here's what voting looks like in uncertain times</a></p>

<p>This time in Florida, over 9 million voters have already cast their ballot ensuring the suspense remains in the US elections as the drama unfolds over the final result.</p>

<p>The US elections in 2000 was famously entangled between <strong>George W. Bush</strong> and Democrat candidate&nbsp;<strong>Al Gore </strong>in a controversial vote count as the Democratic candidate had to finally concede defeat after the US Supreme Court intervened.</p>

<p>Although Gore had won more votes than George W Bush, but Florida was awarded to Bush which pushed the Republican Electoral College total to 271 ensuring victory for the GOP.</p>


Key states in US Election 2020: As voters all across America exercised their franchise, US President Donald Trump predicted that he would win "very big" in Florida.

Key states in US Election 2020: As voters all across America exercised their franchise, US President Donald Trump predicted that he would win "very big" in Florida. | Follow - US Elections Live Update Watch US Election Result 2020 LIVE: "We think we are winning Texas very big. We think we are winning Florida very big. We think we are winning Arizona very big," Trump said. Also See: Crucial states that could determine course of the race Florida is a key battleground state which is critical for Trump's presidency, and a goldmine for Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden. According to opinion polls in Florida, Biden has a 1.7 point lead over Trump. The US president had won Florida and 29 electoral votes in the last elections as he stole the show from Hillary Clinton in 2016. Trump has toured Florida and made his pitch amid the US elections. The US president had taken Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and Iowa in 2016 as he surprised political experts who gave him little chance of victory. Read | US election 2020: Here's what voting looks like in uncertain times This time in Florida, over 9 million voters have already cast their ballot ensuring the suspense remains in the US elections as the drama unfolds over the final result. The US elections in 2000 was famously entangled between George W. Bush and Democrat candidate Al Gore in a controversial vote count as the Democratic candidate had to finally concede defeat after the US Supreme Court intervened. Although Gore had won more votes than George W Bush, but Florida was awarded to Bush which pushed the Republican Electoral College total to 271 ensuring victory for the GOP.

US Elections 2020: Trump, Biden eye Florida as battleground states hold sway

Voters in Los Angeles were treated to a musical accompaniment by a mariachi band, as they cast their ballots at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday (November 3).

Mariachi band serenades new voter in Los Angeles

<p>Rapper Kanye West on Tuesday voted for himself as the next US president after a long-shot campaign marked by erratic statements and speculation that he might siphon some Black votes from Democrat Joe Biden.</p>

<p>Late on Tuesday evening, the singer and fashion designer appeared to concede his 2020 bid had ended but suggested his quest was not over. He posted a picture of himself in front of an electoral map saying "WELP KANYE 2024."</p>

<p>Earlier, the singer and fashion designer tweeted that he was "voting for the first time in my life for the President of the United States, and it's for someone I truly trust ... me."</p>

<p>He later posted a video of himself casting his vote in Cody, Wyoming, where he wrote himself in on the ballot.</p>

<p>West, 43, got onto the presidential ballot in a handful of states, although not in battlegrounds like Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan. He has spent recent weeks instructing followers how to vote for him as a write-in candidate elsewhere.</p>

<p>Kanye West's celebrity wife, Kim Kardashian, did not appear to be supporting his bid. She has given no public endorsements of her husband and on Tuesday she retweeted a message about voter hotlines from Democratic vice presidential contender Kamala Harris.</p>

<p>West, once one of Trump's biggest celebrity supporters, launched his campaign for the White House in July with erratic statements that raised concerns over his mental health. The 21-time Grammy Award winner said in 2018 that he suffers from bipolar disorder.</p>

<p>West loaned $6.7 million to his campaign, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission, and in a recent video emphasized religion and family values.</p>


Rapper Kanye West on Tuesday voted for himself as the next US president after a long-shot campaign marked by erratic statements and speculation that he might siphon some Black votes from Democrat Joe Biden.

Rapper Kanye West on Tuesday voted for himself as the next US president after a long-shot campaign marked by erratic statements and speculation that he might siphon some Black votes from Democrat Joe Biden. Late on Tuesday evening, the singer and fashion designer appeared to concede his 2020 bid had ended but suggested his quest was not over. He posted a picture of himself in front of an electoral map saying "WELP KANYE 2024." Earlier, the singer and fashion designer tweeted that he was "voting for the first time in my life for the President of the United States, and it's for someone I truly trust ... me." He later posted a video of himself casting his vote in Cody, Wyoming, where he wrote himself in on the ballot. West, 43, got onto the presidential ballot in a handful of states, although not in battlegrounds like Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan. He has spent recent weeks instructing followers how to vote for him as a write-in candidate elsewhere. Kanye West's celebrity wife, Kim Kardashian, did not appear to be supporting his bid. She has given no public endorsements of her husband and on Tuesday she retweeted a message about voter hotlines from Democratic vice presidential contender Kamala Harris. West, once one of Trump's biggest celebrity supporters, launched his campaign for the White House in July with erratic statements that raised concerns over his mental health. The 21-time Grammy Award winner said in 2018 that he suffers from bipolar disorder. West loaned $6.7 million to his campaign, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission, and in a recent video emphasized religion and family values.

US election: Kanye West gives up on 2020 White House bid, eyes 2024

Tony and Grammy award winner, Leslie Odom Jr., has released a new video singing his song "Wait For It" from the Broadway musical "Hamilton" to ask voters to be patient waiting for the Presidential election results.

Leslie Odom Jr. sings 'Wait For It' in homage to voters to be patient for election results

US election 2020: Historical firsts in the presidential election

<p>Today is a stressful time for almost everyone in the US as today is being projected as one of the most important days in political history. However, it is especially more stressful for the two candidates:&nbsp;the&nbsp;current President&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.wionews.com/topics/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>&nbsp;</strong>and the former Vice President and&nbsp;Democratic nominee&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.wionews.com/topics/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>. </strong>In these stressful times, things re ought&nbsp;to get mixed up here or there...or in Biden's case, people ought to get mixed up.</p>

<p>During one of his public appearances, Biden ended up giving a laughable moment to the audiences, and especially his opposition leaders, as he seemed to confuse his granddaughter with his son. The confusion happened during&nbsp;an appearance in&nbsp;Philadelphia.</p>

<p>Joe Biden often mentions his son Beau Biden in his campaigns, fondly remembering one or the other incident of his beloved son whom he lost in 2015. On the day of elections, too, he briefly mentioned his son, and while introducing his granddaughter, Beau's daughter, Joe Biden mistakingly introduced her as&nbsp;"This is my son Beau Biden who a lot of you helped elect to the senate in Delaware."</p>

<p>However, he was quick enough to retrace his words and immediately corrected himself saying, "This is my granddaughter Natalie".&nbsp;</p>

<p>While many people noticed and understood the confusion and the sensitivity behind the confusion, Trump's campaign was quick enough to publish the video on Twitter with the caption "WATCH: Joe Biden mixes up his granddaughters".</p>

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<p>This was not the first time Trump, and his campaign, have made fun of Biden for his speeches made in the public. Trump has often settled with name-calling Biden and making fun of his oratory skills that trump defines as "very bad".</p>

<p>Beau Biden was Delaware's attorney general from 2007 to 2015 and had also served in&nbsp;Iraq. Joe Biden started his day by paying a visit to the state where Beau Biden is buried along with Joe Biden's first wife and daughter, who died in a car wreck in 1972.</p>


Today is a stressful time for almost everyone in the US as today is being projected as one of the most important days in political history. However, it is especially more stressful for the two candidates: the current President Donald Trump and the former Vice President and Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Today is a stressful time for almost everyone in the US as today is being projected as one of the most important days in political history. However, it is especially more stressful for the two candidates: the current President Donald Trump and the former Vice President and Democratic nominee Joe Biden. In these stressful times, things re ought to get mixed up here or there...or in Biden's case, people ought to get mixed up. During one of his public appearances, Biden ended up giving a laughable moment to the audiences, and especially his opposition leaders, as he seemed to confuse his granddaughter with his son. The confusion happened during an appearance in Philadelphia. Joe Biden often mentions his son Beau Biden in his campaigns, fondly remembering one or the other incident of his beloved son whom he lost in 2015. On the day of elections, too, he briefly mentioned his son, and while introducing his granddaughter, Beau's daughter, Joe Biden mistakingly introduced her as "This is my son Beau Biden who a lot of you helped elect to the senate in Delaware." However, he was quick enough to retrace his words and immediately corrected himself saying, "This is my granddaughter Natalie". While many people noticed and understood the confusion and the sensitivity behind the confusion, Trump's campaign was quick enough to publish the video on Twitter with the caption "WATCH: Joe Biden mixes up his granddaughters". WATCH: Joe Biden mixes up his granddaughters pic.twitter.com/NzsHPqKw2c — Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) November 3, 2020 × This was not the first time Trump, and his campaign, have made fun of Biden for his speeches made in the public. Trump has often settled with name-calling Biden and making fun of his oratory skills that trump defines as "very bad". Beau Biden was Delaware's attorney general from 2007 to 2015 and had also served in Iraq. Joe Biden started his day by paying a visit to the state where Beau Biden is buried along with Joe Biden's first wife and daughter, who died in a car wreck in 1972.

Joe Biden confuses his granddaughter with son during US Election rally; Trump campaign reacts

<p>As voters turned up in huge numbers during <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/us-election-2020-heres-how-american-leaders-are-urging-people-to-go-out-and-vote-340269">US elections</a> 2020, the markets gave the election wave a thumbs-up with the Dow ending up 2.1 per cent in Election Day session. |&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/live-us-election-2020-donald-trump-joe-biden-more-than-98-million-voted-to-elect-the-next-president-340039">LIVE update: It is going to be a tight race, says Kamala Harris to US voters</a></p>

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<p>The Dow finished nearly 550 points up at 27,477.40 as the markets leaned towards Biden who has been leading the opinion polls for the past month.</p>

<p>The S&amp;P 500 went up 1.8 per cent to end at 3,369.11, while the Nasdaq Composite Index closed at 11,160.57.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/us-elections-2020-country-entitled-to-know-who-won-on-november-3-says-trump-340238">Also Read:&nbsp;Country entitled to know who won on November 3, says Trump</a></p>

<p>The markets across the world were on a high even as the dollar took a hit amid the US polls. As the markets closed, over 100 million US voters had already exercised their franchise.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The Dow kept its momentum as it opened up 1.3 per cent at 27,275.22. The S&amp;P 500 went up 1.0 per cent to 3,344.23, while Nasdaq Composite Index to 11,027.65. The surge in numbers come as Biden led Trump in final opinion polls even as US voters exercised their franchise.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/us-election-2020-heres-how-american-leaders-are-urging-people-to-go-out-and-vote-340269">Also Read:&nbsp;Here's how American leaders are urging people to go out and vote</a></p>

<p>At close, the S&amp;P 500 was up 1.8 per cent ending at 3,369.11, while the Nasdaq gained finished at 11,160.57.</p>

<p>On Friday, the markets had bled amid reports of surging coronavirus cases as Europe and America touched grim COVID-19 milestones.</p>

<p>According to Johns Hopkins University, the United States has over 9 million coronavirus cases.</p>


As voters turned up in huge numbers during US elections 2020, the markets gave the election wave a thumbs-up with the Dow ending up 2.1 per cent in Election Day session.

As voters turned up in huge numbers during US elections 2020, the markets gave the election wave a thumbs-up with the Dow ending up 2.1 per cent in Election Day session. | LIVE update: It is going to be a tight race, says Kamala Harris to US voters Watch: The Dow finished nearly 550 points up at 27,477.40 as the markets leaned towards Biden who has been leading the opinion polls for the past month. The S&P 500 went up 1.8 per cent to end at 3,369.11, while the Nasdaq Composite Index closed at 11,160.57. Also Read: Country entitled to know who won on November 3, says Trump The markets across the world were on a high even as the dollar took a hit amid the US polls. As the markets closed, over 100 million US voters had already exercised their franchise. The Dow kept its momentum as it opened up 1.3 per cent at 27,275.22. The S&P 500 went up 1.0 per cent to 3,344.23, while Nasdaq Composite Index to 11,027.65. The surge in numbers come as Biden led Trump in final opinion polls even as US voters exercised their franchise. Also Read: Here's how American leaders are urging people to go out and vote At close, the S&P 500 was up 1.8 per cent ending at 3,369.11, while the Nasdaq gained finished at 11,160.57. On Friday, the markets had bled amid reports of surging coronavirus cases as Europe and America touched grim COVID-19 milestones. According to Johns Hopkins University, the United States has over 9 million coronavirus cases.

US elections 2020: On election day, Wall Street ends on a high; Dow up over 2%

<p>With a president refusing to commit to a peaceful transition of power, a number of commentators have been sounding the alarm about a “rickety” U.S. electoral system seen as uniquely vulnerable to a postelection crisis. Legal scholars and a group called the Transition Integrity Project have been examining the ways in which the machinery could fail, and the nightmare scenarios gamed out are hair-raising. But while looking at points of possible legal failure is a useful exercise, it neglects an important question: Who has the power to concede?</p>

<p>Ultimately, all democratic transitions are based on one side being willing to concede power to another. Without a concession at some stage, power must be allocated by force: Either the military must decide, or there is civil war. There is growing concern that the United States may be arriving at a moment where a concession is no longer achievable — but if this is the case, this is ultimately a problem with the state of American politics, not its legal machinery.</p>

<p>To the extent that the electoral machinery matters, the American system is in many ways surprisingly robust. In ordinary presidential systems elsewhere, an election commission announces the outcome. Then, the political spotlight shifts immediately to the defeated candidate, who must make the crucial decision: Will they accept the result? It is a democracy’s most defining and most perilous moment.</p>

<p>By comparison, America’s electoral machinery, for all its oddities and flaws, offers greater systemic safeguards. What elsewhere is a single decision by an individual is in the United States spread out over up to two and a half months, set within a labyrinthine array of legal procedures — procedures that vest the power to concede in a vast number of actors across the constitutional system.</p>

<p>Any presidential election in the United States takes place in two stages: the vote-counting stage at the state level ahead of the Electoral College vote in mid-December, and a second stage in January when Congress counts the electoral votes.</p>

<p>The first stage involves innumerable local and state officials and courts. If even a small number of these actors break partisan ranks, they can effectively concede the election: a governor that certifies results supporting the opposing party, a judicial ruling that both sides agree to obey.</p>

<p>State legislatures in the United States have an untested reserve power that allows them to ignore their state’s vote and appoint electors themselves. This has been portrayed as a grave danger to the system, providing yet another way for a presidential election to go off the rails. But it also serves to imbue even more actors within the system with the power to concede. A very small group of state legislators can break partisan ranks and yield an election on behalf of a presidential candidate.</p>

<p>The 2000 election was arguably the closest in history, decided by Florida by a margin of one one-hundredth of one percent, so close that we will never know who the true winner of the state was: Media recounts months later concluded that the results would change depending on which counting method was used. Even so, a concession occurred before the second stage.</p>

<p>That next stage, when Congress convenes in January to count the electoral votes, provides further opportunities for concession. If a state’s electoral votes are disputed, the House and Senate meet separately to adjudicate the controversy. A potentially small number of representatives or senators can break rank, conceding the election by agreeing to resolve the dispute in favor of the other party. There is a potentially dangerous legal ambiguity here: If the House and Senate arrive at different decisions, the law governing the proceedings is unclear about how to reconcile them, with the potential for an unresolvable constitutional deadlock. But while legally dangerous, politically this ambiguity — along with the deadline of Inauguration Day — only serves to ratchet up the pressure to fold. The vice-president, who presides over the vote count, may have a last opportunity to concede a disputed election by choosing to resolve this ambiguity in favor of the opposing party. The process culminates in an official pronouncement of the next duly elected president by the vice-president, with the speaker of the House by his side.</p>

<p>Only once has a disputed electoral vote count reached the second stage. In the 1876 election, Congress invented a procedure to resolve the crisis, punting the disputes to an appointed commission.</p>

<p>The House and Senate could vote on the commission’s recommendation — but if the two houses disagreed, the commission’s decision would stand. The commission first recommended, on an 8-to-7 partisan vote, that Florida’s disputed electoral votes be allocated to the Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes. But while the Republican Senate endorsed the recommendation, the Democratic House rejected it. The pivotal moment came immediately afterward: With the speaker of the House at his side, the vice-president announced that the commission’s decision stood. The Democrats accepted the call; they allowed the count to continue.</p>

<p>This was the first crucial part of concession. A few weeks later, the vice-president, with the speaker at his side, would oversee the completion of the count, and proclaim Hayes as president. A threat of chaos after Inauguration Day was the Democrats’ only remaining weapon. Hayes provided certain reassurances, though the nature of those reassurances — the “Compromise of 1877” — is still disputed by historians today. Among them, however, appears to have been a promise regarding three Southern states where Black Republicans still held political power, protected by federal troops. Following 1877, the troops’ protection was withdrawn and white Democrats took control, with lasting consequences.</p>

<p>America’s electoral machinery provides many, many opportunities to find concession. But fundamentally, it still must be one of the parties that defers. Candidates must show a willingness to step back from the precipice. The nightmare scenarios necessarily presume that not only might a candidate reject the election result, but that an entire party will do so at every level within the system. If this comes true, the American experiment is probably over in any case.</p>

<p>If the American experiment is finished, the United States’ unusually complicated electoral machinery merely guides how it would end: Elsewhere, an aspiring autocrat must corrupt or defy an electoral commission to kill a democracy. Determined Americans could kill theirs through obscurities of constitutional hardball.</p>

<p>Peaceful transitions of power require political will. In the end, people on one side must step back from the brink.</p>

<p>If history is any guide, they will.</p>


With a president refusing to commit to a peaceful transition of power, a number of commentators have been sounding the alarm about a “rickety” U.S. electoral system seen as uniquely vulnerable to a postelection crisis.

With a president refusing to commit to a peaceful transition of power, a number of commentators have been sounding the alarm about a “rickety” U.S. electoral system seen as uniquely vulnerable to a postelection crisis. Legal scholars and a group called the Transition Integrity Project have been examining the ways in which the machinery could fail, and the nightmare scenarios gamed out are hair-raising. But while looking at points of possible legal failure is a useful exercise, it neglects an important question: Who has the power to concede? Ultimately, all democratic transitions are based on one side being willing to concede power to another. Without a concession at some stage, power must be allocated by force: Either the military must decide, or there is civil war. There is growing concern that the United States may be arriving at a moment where a concession is no longer achievable — but if this is the case, this is ultimately a problem with the state of American politics, not its legal machinery. To the extent that the electoral machinery matters, the American system is in many ways surprisingly robust. In ordinary presidential systems elsewhere, an election commission announces the outcome. Then, the political spotlight shifts immediately to the defeated candidate, who must make the crucial decision: Will they accept the result? It is a democracy’s most defining and most perilous moment. By comparison, America’s electoral machinery, for all its oddities and flaws, offers greater systemic safeguards. What elsewhere is a single decision by an individual is in the United States spread out over up to two and a half months, set within a labyrinthine array of legal procedures — procedures that vest the power to concede in a vast number of actors across the constitutional system. Any presidential election in the United States takes place in two stages: the vote-counting stage at the state level ahead of the Electoral College vote in mid-December, and a second stage in January when Congress counts the electoral votes. The first stage involves innumerable local and state officials and courts. If even a small number of these actors break partisan ranks, they can effectively concede the election: a governor that certifies results supporting the opposing party, a judicial ruling that both sides agree to obey. State legislatures in the United States have an untested reserve power that allows them to ignore their state’s vote and appoint electors themselves. This has been portrayed as a grave danger to the system, providing yet another way for a presidential election to go off the rails. But it also serves to imbue even more actors within the system with the power to concede. A very small group of state legislators can break partisan ranks and yield an election on behalf of a presidential candidate. The 2000 election was arguably the closest in history, decided by Florida by a margin of one one-hundredth of one percent, so close that we will never know who the true winner of the state was: Media recounts months later concluded that the results would change depending on which counting method was used. Even so, a concession occurred before the second stage. That next stage, when Congress convenes in January to count the electoral votes, provides further opportunities for concession. If a state’s electoral votes are disputed, the House and Senate meet separately to adjudicate the controversy. A potentially small number of representatives or senators can break rank, conceding the election by agreeing to resolve the dispute in favor of the other party. There is a potentially dangerous legal ambiguity here: If the House and Senate arrive at different decisions, the law governing the proceedings is unclear about how to reconcile them, with the potential for an unresolvable constitutional deadlock. But while legally dangerous, politically this ambiguity — along with the deadline of Inauguration Day — only serves to ratchet up the pressure to fold. The vice-president, who presides over the vote count, may have a last opportunity to concede a disputed election by choosing to resolve this ambiguity in favor of the opposing party. The process culminates in an official pronouncement of the next duly elected president by the vice-president, with the speaker of the House by his side. Only once has a disputed electoral vote count reached the second stage. In the 1876 election, Congress invented a procedure to resolve the crisis, punting the disputes to an appointed commission. The House and Senate could vote on the commission’s recommendation — but if the two houses disagreed, the commission’s decision would stand. The commission first recommended, on an 8-to-7 partisan vote, that Florida’s disputed electoral votes be allocated to the Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes. But while the Republican Senate endorsed the recommendation, the Democratic House rejected it. The pivotal moment came immediately afterward: With the speaker of the House at his side, the vice-president announced that the commission’s decision stood. The Democrats accepted the call; they allowed the count to continue. This was the first crucial part of concession. A few weeks later, the vice-president, with the speaker at his side, would oversee the completion of the count, and proclaim Hayes as president. A threat of chaos after Inauguration Day was the Democrats’ only remaining weapon. Hayes provided certain reassurances, though the nature of those reassurances — the “Compromise of 1877” — is still disputed by historians today. Among them, however, appears to have been a promise regarding three Southern states where Black Republicans still held political power, protected by federal troops. Following 1877, the troops’ protection was withdrawn and white Democrats took control, with lasting consequences. America’s electoral machinery provides many, many opportunities to find concession. But fundamentally, it still must be one of the parties that defers. Candidates must show a willingness to step back from the precipice. The nightmare scenarios necessarily presume that not only might a candidate reject the election result, but that an entire party will do so at every level within the system. If this comes true, the American experiment is probably over in any case. If the American experiment is finished, the United States’ unusually complicated electoral machinery merely guides how it would end: Elsewhere, an aspiring autocrat must corrupt or defy an electoral commission to kill a democracy. Determined Americans could kill theirs through obscurities of constitutional hardball. Peaceful transitions of power require political will. In the end, people on one side must step back from the brink. If history is any guide, they will.

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US election 2020: World leaders react on the presidential election

More Latinos support Donald Trump in US Election 2020: Exit poll

As counting begins, a flood of mail ballots complicates vote tallies

Barack Obama urges people to not let anyone mislead them near US Election 2020 result

US Election 2020: Joe Biden campaign rebukes Trump's 'outrageous claims'

Half of voters confident their ballots will be counted accurately, CNN exit poll shows

First election results: Biden wins Vermont and Virginia, Trump takes West Virginia

US Election 2020: Donald Trump leading in Pennsylvania by 55.6% votes

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Kamala Harris greets supporters on polling day | US Presidential Election 2020

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Protesters march towards Black Lives Matter plaza | US Election 2020

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US election 2020: Ritchie Torres — First openly gay, Afro-Latino member of Congress

Kristen Stewart's girlfriend Dylan Meyer shares a romantic photo of the couple; urges people to vote

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German minister warns of 'explosive situation' after Trump's declaration of victory

Key states in US elections 2020: Biden hopes to turn 'Red' Georgia into 'Blue' as Trump struggles

Donald Trump falsely claims victory with results from key states unclear

Anti-Trump protesters march in D.C. on election night | US Election 2020