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Trump Defiant as US Electors Prepare to Finalize Biden Victory

VOA News

   A day before the U.S. Electoral College meets to formally pick Democrat
   Joe Biden as America's next president, Donald Trump continues to deny
   the results of the November 3 election, buoyed by thousands of
   supporters who rallied in Washington to back the president's failed
   efforts to overturn his defeat at the polls.

   America's presidential contests are not complete until constitutionally
   mandated electors from all 50 states, drawn proportionally to their
   population and mirroring their representation in Congress, meet to cast
   their votes. Except in two U.S. states, each state's electors all vote
   for the presidential contender who won their state.

   With all states having certified election results, Biden won 306
   electoral votes -- 36 more than he needs to become president --
   compared to Trump's 232 votes. Absent a court-sanctioned delay, the
   presidential electors are expected to finalize Biden's victory Monday.

   Federal and state courts have rejected dozens of lawsuits by Trump and
   his allies seeking to overturn or nullify election results in
   battleground states Biden won by varying margins. Most recently, late
   Friday the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider a Texas lawsuit
   seeking to invalidate results in four states, all but terminating any
   pathway for Trump to overturn the election outcome through the courts.

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