Democrat Joseph Biden to become the
next United States president
By Wellington C. Ramos
(Adjunct Professor History
and Political Science)
Every four years on the second
Tuesday in the month of
November, the country of the
United States have a Presidential
Election. Under their
constitution in order to qualify
to run for president, a person
must be 35 yrs of age and
a natural born United States
citizen. No naturalized citizen
of the United States is qualified
to run for president. To
become a president the person
must also win a majority of the
Electoral College Vote which is
now 270 not the Popular Vote.
The Electoral College Board
is comprised of Electors who
are appointed by each state and
the Electors are allocated based
on the state’s population. The
larger the state’s population,
the greater their Electoral College
Vote is and currently that
state is California with (55).
The census in the United States
is conducted every ten years
and states make sure that their
citizens are counted to increase
their members of Congress and
Electoral College Vote. In the
last fifty years New York has
lost many of its citizens to
other states so their Electoral
College number has decreased.
While, Florida and Texas have
gained many new citizens and
their Electoral College numbers
have increased.
Many presidential candidates
in the past, have won
the Popular Vote but lost the
Electoral College Vote and
A combination picture shows U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaking
during the fi rst 2020 presidential campaign debate, held on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic at Case Western Reserve
University in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., Sept. 29, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
could not become the president
due to this requirement.
It has happened to about three
Democratic candidates. Hillary
Clinton was the last person
after Al Gore in 2000, to experience
this when she ran against
Donald Trump in 2016. Donald
Trump and many other United
States citizens, have demanded
that the Electoral College Vote
be removed as a constitutional
requirement to become president.
If it was removed he
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would not have qualified, to
become the president of the
United States. If he manages
to win this election, he will
become the first president of
the United States, to be reelected
by losing the Popular
Vote twice.
They are still counting votes
in the states of Pennsylvania
(20), Too Close To Call possible
Biden win, Georgia (16) Too
Close To Call possible Biden
win, North Carolina (15) Too
Close To Call possible Trump
win, Nevada (6) Too Close To
Call possible Biden win and
Arizona (11) Has Been Called
By Some Media Outlets for
Democratic presidential candidate
Joe Biden who have 264
Electoral College Votes and
need 6 more to reach 270. If he
wins the state of Nevada where
he is leading by a small margin
he becomes the president of
the United States.
The state of Nevada will be
certifying their election results
on Thursday, Nov. 5 and all
expectations are that his lead
will remain the same. Nevada
voted for Hillary Clinton the
Democratic candidate in the
last presidential election in
2016. Donald Trump only has
a total of 214 Electoral College
votes and is 56 Electoral College
votes short of reaching 270
Electoral College Votes. For
him to get that amount of Electoral
College Votes, he must
win Pennsylvania and three of
the other remaining states that
must include Arizona.
Trump might be losing Arizona
because he hated their
late popular Senator John
McCain, whom he attacked
on several occasions during
and after his death. Due to
his constant attacks, the widow
and daughter of John McCain
have both endorsed Joe Biden
for president. Joe Biden was a
good friend of the late Senator.
Based on the way things look at
this moment with the counting
in all the remaining states, it
is difficult for Donald Trump
to win this election. Donald
Trump and his election staff,
are threatening many legal
challenges in the states where
the votes are currently being
counting. However, most legal
experts agree that he has little
legal basis to overturn or stop
the process. If he proceeds with
his threats to go to court, it will
just delay the process but in the
end Joseph Biden will still win
the presidency and become the
46th President of the United
States.
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