2020年美国选举:众议院选举,民主党获得222席,共和党获210席,佩洛西再次当选众议院议长;参议院选举,形成民主党50:50共和党局面;国会正式认证,拜登以选举人团306票当选总统

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President Donald Trump still has a chance of amassing more than 270 electoral college votes and earning a second term, but his campaign is pre-emptively launching bids to challenge state results.

The Trump campaign's efforts largely focus on states where he is trailing while ignoring those where there was a temporary "blue mirage" — that is, states where the early reporting saw Democratic nominee Joe Biden take a lead but are now projected for Trump after a more substantial rendering of the votes, including absentee ballots.

Democrats and the Biden campaign have scoffed at the legal challenges, and the flurry of court action so far did not seem destined to impact the election's outcome.

Generally speaking, the efforts have attempted to stop the counting of votes not yet tallied or to argue for greater transparency in overseeing the process of tabulating votes.

In an interview Thursday on MSNBC, Stanford law professor Nathaniel Persily characterized it as a "pre-litigation strategy" as the state results still won't be officially certified for weeks yet.

"Right now we don't know what will be the 'hanging chad' of the 2020 election," said Persily, referring to an infamous sticking point in the contested 2000 U.S. election between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore.

Here's a look at some of the questions the Trump campaign is trying to raise and whether they might have an impact.

Georgia

A Trump campaign lawsuit filed in Chatham County asking a judge to ensure the state laws are being followed on absentee ballots was dismissed Thursday morning.

The suit had raised concerns about 53 absentee ballots that poll observers said were not part of an original batch of ballots. County elections officials testified that all 53 ballots had been received on time.

Trump has a sizeable but not yet insurmountable lead in Georgia, with tens of thousands of ballots still to be counted.

Michigan

The Associated Press projected Michigan's 16 electoral college votes for Biden, with a Trump campaign lawsuit claiming Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, was allowing absentee ballots to be counted without teams of bipartisan observers as well as challengers.

In an interview with CBC News, Harvard law professor Nick Stephanopolous called it a "ticky-tack, minor lawsuit."

"If you look at the complaint, it's extraordinarily narrow," he said. "The allegation is that a particular Republican observer from a particular rural county didn't get the access he was supposed to get. None of this threatens a material number of ballots."

The bids were rejected Thursday afternoon.

Biden leads Trump in vote counting by about 150,000 with 99 per cent of the vote reported.

Nevada

Trump's campaign said Thursday in Las Vegas that it would file a lawsuit later in the day alleging thousands of people cast ballots who no longer live in the state.

The campaign has previously been unsuccessful in two attempts to stop absentee vote counting in Clark County.

The state's six electoral votes were still up for grabs Thursday, with Biden holding an advantage of more than 11,000 votes.

Pennsylvania

As with Michigan, Trump surrogates have argued over access in numerous locations, while also seeking to intervene in a Pennsylvania case at the Supreme Court that deals with whether ballots received up to three days after the election can be counted, deputy campaign manager Justin Clark said. Pre-election bids to do so were rejected after the state sought to provide voting options during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Trump campaign also on Thursday sued Philadelphia County's Board of Elections, seeking an emergency injunction barring it from counting ballots so long as Republican observers are not present, as it said was required under Pennsylvania law.

The president is ahead in Pennsylvania but his margin is shrinking as more mailed ballots are counted. Nearly 30,000 ballots in Allegheny Country will not be counted until Friday, CNN reported, as a dispute over a printing issue is before the courts there.

Wisconsin

Trump's campaign also announced that it would ask for a recount in Wisconsin. Campaign manager Bill Stepien cited "irregularities in several Wisconsin counties," without providing specifics.

A recent state law allows for a recount to be triggered by a candidate with a vote margin of less than one per cent. With all precincts having reported, Biden is up by 0.6 percentage points.

That said, counties will continue a review process through Nov. 17, and the state doesn't certify its results until Dec. 1. The question may be moot if Biden's electoral college margin is greater than 20 — Wisconsin nets 10 electoral votes for the winner — or if Trump has won.

In neighbouring Minnesota, a recount bid launched by Al Franken in a 2008 Senate race was successful after an initial call, leading to a swing of over 500 votes. Biden's lead in Wisconsin is currently over 20,000 votes.

What about the Supreme Court?

On election night, Trump suggested that ballot-counting issues could be dealt with at the U.S. Supreme Court. To some election law experts, calling for the Supreme Court to intervene at this stage seemed premature, if not rash.

The recent Trump campaign suits have been filed in state court involving state challenges under state law. To get to the Supreme Court, they have to find a federal legal issue or a constitutional issue.

"The Supreme Court doesn't want to get too involved in disputes that can't realistically affect the result of the election, so unless one of these states gets really close and unless there's a plausible legal challenge involving a lot of votes … I don't think the Supreme Court is going to want to touch this with a 10-foot pole," said Stephanopoulos.

A case would have to come to the court from a state in which the outcome would determine the election's winner, Richard Hasen, a University of California, Irvine, law professor, wrote on the Election Law blog.

"As of this moment [though things can change] it does not appear that either condition will be met," Hasen wrote.

The top court did intervene in the 2000 presidential election that ended with a decision, leading to the presidency of George W. Bush.

Steve Mulroy, professor of law at the University of Memphis, told CBC News that some of the conservative justices opened the door a crack to a possible Supreme Court case down the road in a recent Pennsylvania election ruling on Oct. 28. The argument would be that by extending absentee balloting, the state "usurps what the U.S. Constitution recognizes as the plenary authority of state legislatures to allocate how presidential electoral votes and the electoral college are counted."

"Now, this theory only commanded three justices back in 2000 in Bush v. Gore and was not really paid much attention, but in recent weeks in various opinions, both Justices [Brett] Kavanaugh and [Samuel] Alito have suggested that they're open to reviving it," said Mulroy.

"I don't think that it is likely that that will happen in this case – there's a number of reasons why Pennsylvania is not the best vehicle for that, but it's at least something that people need to keep an eye on," said Mulroy, author of Rethinking U.S. Election Law.

Such a ruling would in effect penalize state voters. Pennsylvania voters were guided on when to cast ballots, legally speaking, by "rulings by both the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and also more recently the U.S. Supreme Court," he said.

How far will Trump take it?

Democrat Al Gore asked for a recount in the 2000 and the Supreme Court ruled against him, with Bush winning Florida by just over 500 votes.

Some legal experts at the time argued that Gore still had legal avenues to pursue, but he chose to concede the day after the Supreme Court decision.

There's little evidence Trump will be as amenable — during the campaign, he made no clear promise to accept a close election loss. Even after winning in 2016, Trump made baseless accusations of "millions" of illegally cast votes for Hillary Clinton and set up a commission to investigate it, which was later quietly shuttered.

"It's not a good idea to try and win the election on a bizarre technicality of when a stamp was on an envelope. [Trump] may well deserve it cleanly and legitimately [through the electoral college] and some of these other tactics might undermine his own cause," said David Shribman, professor of public policy at McGill University.

Trump supporters have gathered at state offices in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania but it's not clear if widespread protests would continue if Biden bagged more than enough states to clear the 270-electoral vote bar.

A final wildcard: If the electoral college margin is razor-thin after states certify results, Attorney General William Barr could find a way for the Justice Department to get involved in what is currently a campaign issue. Barr has said in both testimony and interviews this year that he believes mail balloting greatly raises the prospect for fraud.
 
现在回头看,去年的投票帖准确的反映出来某些人的民主素养。只要结果不是自己想要的,死不认账,撒泼打滚。
对照一下,还是那些人。
玩不起
 

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Despite the fact votes are still being counted and there has been no winner declared in the election yet by any media organization, U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his unfounded claim Thursday evening that Democrats are trying to "steal" the election from him. He did not back up his allegation with any evidence.

"If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us," Trump said, suggesting votes were being counted that were cast after election day.

State and federal officials have not reported any instances of widespread voter fraud.

Trump spoke from the White House briefing room, unleashing harsh criticism of pre-election polling that showed him trailing Democrat Joe Biden and claiming the ballot-counting process is unfair and corrupt.

"This is a case when they are trying to steal an election, they are trying to rig an election, and we can't let that happen," Trump said of the Democrats, whom he accused of corruption while providing no evidence.

He also vowed to fight the election in court, perhaps right up to the Supreme Court.

The ballot-counting process across the country has been running smoothly, according to state election officials, and the count is ongoing in several battleground states.

"If America needed a wake-up call about how dangerous Donald Trump is, they got it tonight," Anthony Scaramucci told CBC News. Scaramucci worked in the White House as Trump's communications director for 11 days and has been openly critical of Trump since he left the White House.

Biden tweeted in response, saying, "No one is going to take our democracy away from us."

Earlier in the day, a Michigan judge dismissed a Trump campaign lawsuit in a dispute over whether Republican challengers had access to the handling of absentee ballots. The lawsuit claimed Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, was allowing absentee ballots to be counted without teams of bipartisan observers as well as challengers.

Judge Cynthia Stephens said that the lawsuit was filed late Wednesday afternoon, just hours before the last ballots were counted. She also said the defendant was the wrong person to sue because she doesn't control the logistics of local ballot counting, even if she is the state's chief election officer.

Much of the dispute centred on the TCF Center in Detroit where pro-Trump protesters gathered while absentee ballots were being counted.

A judge in Georgia also dismissed a lawsuit over the vote in that state late Wednesday. It was unclear if any of the Trump campaign's legal manoeuvring over ballot counting would succeed in shifting the race in his favour. Late Thursday afternoon, the campaign said it had launched yet another lawsuit, this time against the Philadelphia board of electors, seeking an injunction to bar ballot counting unless Republican observers are present.

Meanwhile, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden pushed closer to the 270 electoral college votes needed to carry the White House, securing victories in the "blue wall" battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Michigan and narrowing U.S. President Donald Trump's path.

Biden's victories in the Great Lakes states left him with 253 electoral votes, while Trump has 214.

Biden also holds narrow leads in Nevada and Arizona, while Trump was watching his slim advantage fade in must-win states Pennsylvania and Georgia as mail-in and absentee votes were being counted. The Associated Press and Fox News have called Arizona for Biden, but CBC News still considers it too close to call and is waiting to make the determination.

Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said on Thursday afternoon that she was unaware of any allegations of voter fraud in her state as the final votes were being counted.

Biden called for calm Thursday afternoon as the final votes are counted.

"Democracy is sometimes messy," he said from Wilmington, Del. "It sometimes requires a bit of patience, too."

And he reiterated that he feels good about where things stand and is confident he will be the winner when the count is complete.

With millions of ballots yet to be tabulated, Biden already had received more than 71 million votes, the most in U.S. history.

As of Thursday afternoon, Arizona state officials said about 450,000 ballots remain to be counted, while an election official in Georgia said more than 47,000 votes are still to be counted.

"The effort here is to make sure that everybody's legal vote is counted properly and that the actual results are reflective of the voters' intent," said Gabriel Sterling, a voting system manager in Atlanta. "These close elections require us to be diligent and make sure we do everything right."

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Trump clung to a narrow lead in North Carolina as well, another must-win for him. Trump had to win the states where he was still ahead and either Arizona or Nevada to triumph and avoid becoming the first incumbent U.S. president to lose a re-election bid since fellow Republican George H.W. Bush in 1992.

Nevada official responds to Trump campaign allegations

In Las Vegas, Trump allies alleged, without evidence, that there had been voting irregularities in populous Clark County, which includes the city. Former Nevada attorney general Adam Laxalt, a Republican, said a lawsuit would be filed in federal court to ask the judge to "stop the counting of improper votes."

On Thursday, Clark County, Nev., election official Joe Gloria told reporters, "We are unaware of any improper ballots that are being processed."

He said the counting is slow because there are far more mail-in ballots this year than in previous elections, and that the U.S. Postal Service will continue to deliver all ballots postmarked on or before Nov. 3 through Nov. 10.

Bob Bauer, a senior adviser to Biden's campaign, called the various Trump lawsuits "meritless" and designed to undermine the integrity of the electoral process.

In Georgia, a judge dismissed a different lawsuit by that state's Republican Party and Trump's campaign that asked him to ensure a coastal county was following state laws on processing absentee ballots.

Chatham County Superior Court Judge James Bass did not provide an explanation for his decision at the close of a roughly one-hour hearing. The county includes the heavily Democratic city of Savannah.

An appeals court in Pennsylvania on Thursday ordered that Trump campaign officials be allowed to more closely observe ballot processing in Philadelphia. Statewide recounts in Wisconsin, meanwhile, have historically changed the vote tally by only a few hundred votes; Biden led by more than 20,000 ballots out of nearly 3.3 million counted.

Election observer says no evidence for Trump's claims

The head of an international delegation monitoring the U.S. election said his team has no evidence to support Trump's claims about alleged fraud involving mail-in absentee ballots.

Michael Georg Link, a German lawmaker who heads an observer mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), told German public broadcaster rbb Thursday that "on the election day itself, we couldn't see any violations" at the U.S. polling places they visited.

Link said he was "very surprised" by Trump's claims about postal ballot fraud because the United States has a long history of this method of voting going back to the 19th century. The Vienna-based OSCE, of which the U.S. is a member, conducts observer missions at major elections in all of its member countries.

"We looked into this. We found no violations of the rules whatsoever," Link told rbb. He said neither U.S. election observers nor media found any evidence of fraud either, though the OSCE team on Wednesday repeated long-standing concerns about disenfranchisement of some voters and the distorting effects of campaign finance laws.

Trump used his Twitter feed to falsely claim victory in several key states and amplify unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about Democratic gains as absentee and early votes were tabulated.

He weighed in again on Twitter on Thursday, writing: "Stop the count!" Twitter later flagged a different Trump tweet as disputed and possibly misleading; Trump tweeted that "any vote that came in after election day will not be counted."

Several states allow mailed-in votes to be accepted after election day as long as they were postmarked by Tuesday. That includes Pennsylvania, where ballots postmarked by Nov. 3 can be accepted if they arrive up to three days later.
 
目前Trump在乔治亚州只领先拜登2千多票,邮寄选票还在继续统计,越来越对Trump不利了。。。
 
目前Trump在乔治亚州只领先拜登2千多票,邮寄选票还在继续统计,越来越对Trump不利了。。。
可是好像剩下的票很少了,翻蓝的机会似乎不大,如果PA,GA,AZ都归川总,那么就连任成功了,还是希望很大的。
 
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It's almost 10:30 p.m. ET. Here's where the race to 270 stands.

Joe Biden keeps gaining ground in Georgia tonight, and he's now in a near tie with President Trump in that traditionally red state.

It's a different story in Arizona, where Biden's advantage has narrowed, but he stills appears to be on a path toward nearing the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.

Biden currently has 253 electoral votes, while Trump has 213.

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Here's a look at where things stand in the closest contests:


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Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump delivered the most dishonest speech of his presidency on Thursday evening.

I've watched or read the transcript of every Trump speech since late 2016. I've cataloged thousands and thousands of his false claims.

I have never seen him lie more thoroughly and more egregiously than he did on Thursday evening at the White House.

On the verge of what appeared to be a likely defeat by former Vice President Joe Biden, Trump emerged in the press briefing room and took a blowtorch to the presidential tradition of defending the legitimacy of the democratic process.

Aside from some valid criticism of errors by pollsters, some legitimate boasting about his performance with various demographic groups and some legitimate boasting about Republicans' down-ballot performance, almost everything Trump said was not true.

Here's a rundown:

Election theft?
Trump alleged that unnamed opponents of his are "trying to steal an election" and "trying to rig an election."

Facts First: This is entirely baseless. This election is legitimate. Trump's opponents are not trying to steal it. Election officials are simply counting legally cast votes.

Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia
Trump claimed that he "won" the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia, citing his substantial early leads in the vote counts there.

Facts First: This is false. Holding a lead before all of the votes are counted is, obviously, not the same as having won -- and Trump has lost Wisconsin and Michigan, according to CNN projections. At the time of his speech, he was also in trouble in Pennsylvania as votes from Democratic-leaning areas were counted, and his margin in Georgia was shrinking fast as the count continued.

Mail-in voting
Trump called mail-in voting "a corrupt system," adding later that there is "tremendous corruption and fraud going on."

Facts First: This is also just wrong. Fraud is exceedingly rare with mail-in voting; though it does happen on occasion, there is no basis on which to call the entire system corrupt.

The legitimacy of the count, part 1
Trump began the speech by saying, "If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us."

Facts First: This is, again, just false. Trump was on the verge of defeat because legal votes continued to be counted. There was no basis for his suggestion that "illegal votes" were being counted, certainly not that such votes were the reason he was in electoral trouble.

The legitimacy of the count, part 2
Trump claimed, "We were winning in all of the key locations by a lot, actually, and our numbers started miraculously getting whittled away. ..." He added, "They want to find out how many votes they need and then they seem to be able to find them. They wait and wait and then they find them. ..."

Facts First: There is no basis for Trump's suggestion that something nefarious had caused some of his leads to shrink or that anybody was nefariously manipulating the vote counts. His leads had shrunk in some states because entirely legitimate mail-in ballots were being counted. Because many more Democrats than Republicans chose to vote by mail, the order of the counts in these states caused Trump to lose ground in the vote totals over time.

In other states like Florida, where mail-in ballots were counted earlier than in-person votes, Trump actually gained ground in the totals over time -- as he has in Arizona, which remained too close to call at the time of his speech.

The legitimacy of the count, part 3
Trump claimed, "In multiple swing states, counting was halted for hours and hours on election night, with results withheld from major Democrat-run locations, only to appear later. And they certainly appeared, and they all had the name Biden on them, or just about all, I think almost all. They all had the name Biden on them, which is a little strange."

Facts First: Trump's innuendo is baseless. Different states counted their ballots at different speeds, but there is no basis to claim that results were suspiciously "withheld" -- some counties and states always take a while to count and to report -- or that there was something suspicious about Biden's dominance in the late stages of the count in some states. Again, Biden's gains were a result of legitimate mail-in ballots being counted.
It's not true that "all" or "almost all" mail ballots being counted on Wednesday or Thursday were for Biden. Biden handily led Trump in these batches of ballots, but Trump was getting tens of thousands of votes from mail voters in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan, too.

The legitimacy of the count, part 4
Trump said, "It's amazing how those mail-in ballots are so one-sided."

Facts First: There is nothing suspicious about the fact that far more Biden voters than Trump voters chose to vote by mail: Biden encouraged his supporters to do so, while Trump relentlessly disparaged mail-in voting as fraud-prone and unsafe.

Trump made some brief exceptions during the campaign, saying at one point that mail voting in Florida was safe and secure, but his dominant message to his voters was that they should vote in person.

Democrats and the count
Trump said, "There are now only a few states yet to be decided in the presidential race. The voting apparatus of those states are run in all cases by Democrats." He later added that "the election apparatus in Georgia is run by Democrats."

Facts First: This is false. Georgia's top elections official, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, is a Republican. So is Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske of Nevada, a state where the race was also close at the time.

There is also no basis to suggest that the Democratic election officials in other states have done anything wrong. And it is local counties that actually count the votes.

Votes and Election Day?
Trump declared that "no illegal votes" should be allowed to be cast after Election Day, suggesting that such illegal voting was happening.

Facts First: Votes are not being cast after Election Day; votes are being counted after Election Day, as always. And some states accept mail ballots received after Election Day if they are postmarked on or before Election Day.

"Unsolicited" ballots
Trump claimed that states had sent out tens of millions of "unsolicited" ballots "without any verification measures whatsoever." He was referring to states that mailed a ballot to each eligible registered voter without requiring a specific request.

Facts First: This is a familiar Trump claim, and it remains wrong. The nine states (plus Washington, DC) that sent out such ballots have various ballot security measures in place, such as signature-match requirements, to ensure the correct people are voting. It's worth noting that one of the states that sends out "unsolicited" ballots is Republican-run Utah, which Trump is projected to carry for the second consecutive election.

Detroit and Philadelphia
Trump claimed, "Detroit and Philadelphia, known as two of the most corrupt political places anywhere in our country, easily, cannot be responsible for engineering the outcome of a presidential race, a very important presidential race."

Facts First: There was no basis for Trump's suggestion that Detroit and Philadelphia had done anything wrong in this election, much less that they were "engineering the outcome." Their local counties were simply counting votes, like every other local county.

Election observers in Detroit
Trump claimed, "Our campaign has been denied access to observe any counting in Detroit."

Facts First: This is false. CNN reporter Annie Grayer said she has observed representatives of the Trump campaign roaming for three days at the TFC Center, where the counting of Detroit's mail ballots is taking place. And on Monday, the first day of the counting of these ballots, Grayer took a photo of Republican poll challengers checking in at the facility.

Detroit's corporation counsel (principal attorney), Lawrence Garcia, said there were approximately 225 Republican poll challengers in the facility on Wednesday, along with 256 Democrats and 76 independents, Grayer reported.

Grayer said she has seen two people get kicked out, one a Republican who refused to wear a mask over their nose and one of undetermined affiliation for causing a disturbance while wearing a Halloween mask. But that's not the same as no Trump observers being allowed at all.

Covered windows
Trump claimed, "One major hub for counting ballots in Detroit covered up the windows again with large pieces of cardboard and so they wanted to protect and block the counting area. They didn't want anybody seeing the counting, though these were observers, legal observers that were supposed to be there."

Facts First: This is misleading: Republican poll challengers were already inside the facility in Detroit when some windows were covered on Wednesday after additional Republicans arrived on scene.

Garcia said in a statement: "Some -- but not all -- windows were covered, because poll workers seated just inside those windows expressed concerns about people outside the center photographing and filming them and their work. Only the media is allowed to take pictures inside the counting place, and people outside the center were not listening to requests to stop filming poll workers and their paperwork. Hundreds of challengers from both parties were inside the central counting board all afternoon and all evening; dozens of reporters were in the room too. At all times, people outside the center could see in through windows that were further away from counting board work spaces."

A pipe bursting in Georgia
Trump claimed, "In Georgia, a pipe burst in a faraway location totally unrelated to the location of what was happening, and they stopped counting for four hours."

Facts First: It's not true that the burst-pipe issue in Atlanta happened in a location unrelated to the vote count. The pipe burst in a room at State Farm Arena that local officials said was above the processing room for Fulton County absentee ballots.

The issue did cause a four-hour delay. No ballots were damaged, officials said.

The legitimacy of polls
Trump delivered some legitimate criticism of the inaccuracy of many polls. But then he said that "the pollsters got it knowingly wrong," saying they were attempting the "suppression" of his supporters.

Facts First: This is baseless. Trump was correct that some polls were way off, but there is no evidence that pollsters were trying to be wrong -- at considerable public embarrassment to themselves.

The status of the Senate
Trump said, "We kept the Senate despite having twice as many seats to defend as Democrats."

Facts First: It was unclear at the time whether Republicans would keep the Senate -- in part because one race in Georgia was heading for a January runoff election and other Georgia race appeared likely to be going to a runoff as well. (Some additional Senate races in other states, in which Republicans held leads, had also not yet been called by media outlets.)
 
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