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‘But we feel good about where we are. I’m here to tell you tonight we believe we’re on track to win this election.’said Biden…reports Asian Lite News

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As polls were closing across the US after American voted in the presidential election, Democratic candidate Joe Biden addressed a crowd in his home state of Delaware, thanking supporters for their patience.

“Good evening. Your patience is commendable. We feel good about where we are,” the BBC quoted Biden as saying to his supporters at an outdoor venue in Wilmington on Tuesday night as counting of the votes were underway in the state.

“We knew this was going to go long, but who knew we would go into maybe tomorrow morning, maybe even longer.

“But we feel good about where we are. I’m here to tell you tonight we believe we’re on track to win this election.

“It ain’t over until every vote, every ballot is counted,” the former Vice President added.

Delaware, which has already projected Biden as a winner, has been his hometown since he moved there as a young boy from Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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The state went to former Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Delaware last voted for a Republican in 1988.

The electoral vote count as of Tuesday night at 11.30 p.m. (10 a.m. IST Wednesday morning) placed Biden at 209 and Trump 118. The magic number is 270.

Deep red states have not budged. Trump has already picked up South Dakota, Utah, Missouri, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Indiana.

Meanwhile, Biden has won Colorado, New Hampshire, District of Columbia, New York, Vermont, Connecticut, Virginia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island and California.

Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris chose Delaware as their election night hub

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‘It ain’t over until every vote, every ballot is counted.’ Biden added…BBC reports

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“We knew this was going to go long, but who knew we would go into maybe tomorrow morning, maybe even longer!” Biden says, speaking from Delaware.BBC reports

“But we feel good about where we are. I’m here to tell you tonight we believe we’re on track to win this election.”

“It ain’t over until every vote, every ballot is counted.”He added

We feel good about where we are. We believe we are on track to win this election.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 4, 2020

Trump has picked up South Dakota, Missouri, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Wyoming and Indiana, while Biden has won California, Colorado, New Hampshire, District of Columbia, New York, Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island.

Virginia, once a battleground and now a Democratic stronghold, has also been called for Biden.

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New Hampshire, which went to former Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton by the slimmest of margins in 2016, Biden is expected to win by a comfortable margin.

Delaware, on the Biden column, has been the former Vice President’s hometown since he moved there as a young boy from Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Delaware went to Clinton in 2016. The state last voted for a Republican in 1988.

Biden’s victory in Vermont is on expected lines as Democrats have kept the state in their column since 1992. Clinton got a huge win here in 2016.

Wild swings were expected in the early hours because of the split between mail in voting and final day numbers.

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With results still trickling in, and several swing state still to be decided, Biden is not expected to declare victory or concede defeat…BBC reports

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Democratic challenger Joe Biden is expected to give a speech from the Chase Center in downtown Wilmington, Delaware in the coming minutes.

With results still trickling in, and several swing state still to be decided, Biden is not expected to declare victory or concede defeat.

Meanwhile, Trump is also expected to give some kind of speech tonight. He is hosting a watch party at the White House with some 400 attendees.

President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden opened their tally with a predictable string of victories while key prizes including Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania remain too early to call.

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Pennsylvania still needs to count upwards of 80 per cent of the total vote. It’s going to be taking a while.

So far, pollsters’ forecasts of wide margins (corrected for 2016 flubs) are not showing up.

Instead, what we see is a colour coding that’s all too familiar.

The electoral vote count as of Tuesday night at 11.30 p.m. (10 a.m. IST Wednesday morning) placed Biden at 209 and Trump 118. The magic number is 270.

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Pennsylvania still needs to count upwards of 80 per cent of the total vote. It’s going to be taking a while…Nikhila Natarajan reports

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Dont expect results anytime soon. About five hours into the US 2020 presidential election night, predictable splotches of red and blue are slowly lighting up the American electoral map, nudging anxious voters in the general direction that closely fought elections go: Nail biting fights in a handful of high stakes states but we wont know the results tonight.

President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden opened their tally with a predictable string of victories while key prizes including Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania remain too early to call.

Pennsylvania still needs to count upwards of 80 per cent of the total vote. It’s going to be taking a while.

So far, pollsters’ forecasts of wide margins (corrected for 2016 flubs) are not showing up.

Instead, what we see is a colour coding that’s all too familiar.

The electoral vote count as of Tuesday night at 11.30 p.m. (10 a.m. IST Wednesday morning) placed Biden at 209 and Trump 118. The magic number is 270.

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Deep red states have not budged. Trump has already picked up South Dakota, Utah, Missouri, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Indiana.

The last time Utah went to a Democratic presidential candidate was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.

And the last time a Democratic candidate won Alabama was Jimmy Carter, 1976.

The last time a Democratic candidate won Arkansas and was Bill Clinton in 1996.

Meanwhile, Biden has won Colorado, New Hampshire, District of Columbia, New York, Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island and California.

Virginia, once a battleground and now a Democratic stronghold, has also been called for Biden.

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New Hampshire, which went to former Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton by the slimmest of margins in 2016, Biden is expected to win by a comfortable margin.

Delaware, on the Biden column, has been the former Vice President’s hometown since he moved there as a young boy from Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Delaware went to Clinton in 2016. The state last voted for a Republican in 1988.

Biden’s victory in Vermont is on expected lines as Democrats have kept the state in their column since 1992. Clinton got a huge win here in 2016.

Wild swings were expected in the early hours because of the split between mail in voting and final day numbers.

Early votes are projected to generally favour Biden, final day numbers are likely to be strong for Republicans.

While Trump is tracking results from the White House, where a new fence has been erected to throw an extra ring of security, Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris have chosen Delaware as their election night hub.

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On Tuesday, Americans flocked to the polls in record numbers in the middle of the raging Covid-19 pandemic which has killed 232,529 people in the country and infected 9,376,293 others, as well as upended the lives and work for millions.

Even before Election Day, a record number of Americans had cast mail in votes, accounting for more than 70 per cent of the total vote in 2016.

Based on projections ahead of the counting, Trump came into election night with a narrow path to victory, Biden with several potential paths, hinging on wins in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, the so-called Blue Wall that Hillary Clinton lost in 2016.

The Pennsylvania count is expected to drag on for days, while the Michigan count is expected in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

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All the while I had been hearing about the “American dream” The magic, the sound these two words exude wholly captured my imagination….writes Alon Ben-Meir

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As a little Jewish boy in the streets of Baghdad I was looked upon by Arab boys my age as inferior. I became accustomed to it as if it were a natural phenomenon which I could do little to change.

When my family and I landed in Israel following the historic exodus of the Iraqi Jews I did not understand why we were uprooted to go to a foreign land. But even at that tender age of nine or ten I felt that being among other Jewish boys I would no longer be looked down upon; but that was not the case. I wondered why, why? ‘We are Sephardic Jews,’ my brother told me
‘the Ashkenazi Jews do not think of us as equal’ and so, living among my fellow Jews did not change my plight.

I left Israel to study in Europe and could not help but look back but in anger. To my chagrin, though not as much to my surprise here too, in the cradle of Western democracies, racism and discrimination were just under their skin. And I could feel it deep in my veins. In France I was seen as an undesirable intruder. In England, a foreigner, a stranger. Though I loved the European culture and their way of life Europe was not a welcoming home
To meet my yearning desire.

All the while I had been hearing about the “American dream” The magic, the sound these two words exude wholly captured my imagination.
Going back to the lands that rejected me was no longer the path I’ll travel
as my longing to reach the American shores was the only thing that was anchored in my mind.

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I imagined America as the land of the free that gave voice to the forgotten.
Where race, color, and creed do not matter and human rights are guarded with zeal. Where the ingathering of all cultures and people made it richer
and human resources and talent knew no limits or constraints. Where opportunity awaits the able and generosity is extended to the needy. Where everyone is equal before the law and political differences are valued to make America better.

Where sacrifices are willingly made to right the wrong and morals and fortitude guide its leaders. Where caring about friends and allies is the hallmark of the nation and opposing oppression near and far is the emblem that distinguished America. This is the character of America, This is the soul of America. This is what made America great The America that gave me a home The America that fulfilled my dreams.

These were the ideals that held Americans together and with all that America stands for and believes in. America was never and is not a perfect union and every president—from Lincoln to Nixon has transgressed in one form or another. But then America’s strive to live up to its ideals has and will always be as if it were a new endeavor and no country in human history has risen to govern with such a vision and resolve placing the right of the individual at the core of its constitution. With all of its faults and failings Two hundred and forty years of the American experience have made America the beacon for all nations. Young and old, large and small countries looked at America with awe and admiration.

Never has it occurred though to the multitude of Americans that one man, in four short years would nearly shatter everything that America stood for.
He sullied the country’s character and fouled its soul. He gravely injured its revered institutions and battered its unity as one nation. He alienated Americans from one another and basked in the polarization and division he gleefully fostered. He betrayed America’s friends and allies and cozied up to its adversaries and foes He tarnished America’s exceptionalism and grace
and sacrificed its greatness on the altar of his illusions and shame.

Trump is cunning, cruel, and corrupt,deranged, delinquent, and deceptive
He is a narcissist, white supremacist, and racist a bigot, brutal, and beastly.
Not a single maligning word in the English dictionary does not fit Trump’s personality and demeanor.

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Four more years of Trump will irreparably impair America, tear the country asunder, weaken its exemplary institutions, sow chaos, trepidation, and fear threaten liberty and the freedom of the press and gravely poison the socio-political order. Four more years of Trump in power will permanently squander America’s leadership role, bankrupt America’s moral standing, embolden America’s enemies, compromise the security of our allies, and leave America’s foes to cheer its decline.

No man should be allowed to destroy America’s noble experience. His enablers—the Republican leadership their deafening silence is nothing short of treason. History will condemn them for having sold their country by putting their personal and party interest before the nation’s. They are so intoxicated with power caring less where America will be after four more years of Trump. No, America will never be the same if they are allowed to crush the once-cherished American dream.

And as long I can discern right from wrong I will fight alongside millions of my fellow Americans to restore America’s greatness and grace Because I want my American dream back.

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Voters are choosing their preferred candidates for President and New Hampshire Governor, as well as federal and state legislative seats in the midnight voting, a tradition that began in Dixville Notch in 1960…reports Asian Lite News

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Voting for the US presidential election kicked off on Tuesday with first ballots cast in Dixville Notch and Millsfield, two small towns in the state of New Hampshire.

Voters are choosing their preferred candidates for President and New Hampshire Governor, as well as federal and state legislative seats in the midnight voting, a tradition that began in Dixville Notch in 1960, reports Xinhua news agency.

In the makeshift “Ballot Room” at Dixville Notch’s Balsams Resort, Les Otten, one of the only five local registered voters, cast the first ballot.

Otten, identifying himself as “a lifelong Republican”, said that voted for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden instead of President Donald Trump.

“I don’t agree with him on a lot of issues,” Otten said of Biden in a video posted on Twitter before the voting.

“But I believe it’s time to find what unites us as opposed to what divides us,” he added.

In Dixville Notch, the other four votes also went to Biden, while residents in Millsfield voted 16 to 5 in favour of Trump.

According to the RealClearPolitics polling average, Biden leads Trump by 6.7 percentage points nationally, but only by 2.8 percentage points in top battleground states, including Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona.

Trump made campaign stops in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin on Monday, while Biden travelled to Ohio in the day and Pennsylvania on Election Eve.

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Polling stations in some major cities on the East Coast will open as early as 6 a.m. Tuesday (local time), after which voting will begin across the nation.

The final polls will close in Alaska.

Voters have already cast more than 98 million ballots in early voting ahead of Election Day, according to the latest tally from the US Elections Project.

That figure, including more than 35 million in-person votes and nearly 63 million returned mail-in ballots, represents more than 71 per cent of the total votes counted in the 2016 general elections, the data showed.

States have different rules on when they are allowed to start counting mail-in ballots, which record high volumes this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic and require more time to process than those cast in person.

Election officials and experts have said that the country should be prepared for no results on Tuesday.

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Besides the Trump-Biden race, all 435 seats in the US House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate will also be in the fray on Tuesday.

More than a dozen state and territorial governorships, among many other state and local posts, will also be contested.

The 2020 US elections, including presidential and congressional races, come as the country is still reeling from the pandemic with 9,284,261 cases and 231,507 deaths, both tallies are currently the highest in the world.

Moreover, many voters are worried by the reality of an increasingly divided nation suffering from bitter partisan fights, violent racial conflicts and worsening social injustice.

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