Election: Biden Pushes Closer to Victory
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e SUNNYEdition 67 • 44 | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2020 | theworldlink.com Follow us online: facebook.com/theworldnewspaper twitter.com/TheWorldLink instagram.com/theworldlink Election: Biden pushes closer to victory WASHINGTON (AP) — dle. To reach 270, he needed to Election Day “will not be count- Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada struck a chord with white work- Democrat Joe Biden was pushing claim all four remaining battle- ed,” a move that if implemented and North Carolina were tight ing-class voters and he captured closer to the 270 Electoral grounds: Pennsylvania, North would affect military ballots, as with votes still being tabulated. all three in 2016 by a combined College votes needed to carry the Carolina, Georgia and Nevada. his campaign propagated base- The Trump campaign said total of just 77,000 votes. White House, securing victories With millions of votes yet to less allegations of fraud. it was confident the president The candidates waged a fierce in the “blue wall” battlegrounds be tabulated, Biden already had Elections are run by indi- would ultimately pull out a fight for the states this year, of Wisconsin and Michigan and received more than 71 million vidual state, county and local victory in Arizona, where votes with Biden’s everyman political narrowing President Donald votes, the most in history. At governments and Trump’s public were also still being counted, in- persona resonating in blue-col- Trump’s path. an afternoon news conference comments have no impact on cluding in Maricopa County, the lar towns while his campaign With just a handful of states Wednesday, the former vice the tallying of votes across the state’s most populous area. The also pushed to increase turnout still up for grabs, Trump tried to president said he expected to win country. AP has declared Biden the win- among Black voters in cities like press his case in court in some the presidency but stopped short Trump’s campaign engaged in ner in Arizona and said Thursday Detroit and Milwaukee. key swing states. It was unclear of outright declaring victory. a flurry of legal activity to try to that it was monitoring the vote It was unclear when a national if any of his campaign’s legal “I will govern as an American improve the Republican pres- count as it proceeds. winner would be determined maneuvering over balloting president,” Biden said. “There ident’s chances and cast doubt “The Associated Press con- after a long, bitter campaign would succeed in shifting the will be no red states and blue on the election results, request- tinues to watch and analyze vote dominated by the coronavirus race in his favor. states when we win. Just the ing a recount in Wisconsin and count results from Arizona as and its effects on Americans and Two days after Election Day, United States of America.” filing lawsuits in Pennsylvania, they come in,” said Sally Buz- the national economy. But even neither candidate had amassed Trump, in contrast, was esca- Michigan and Georgia. Statewide bee, AP’s executive editor. “We as Biden’s prospects improved, the votes needed to win the lating his efforts to sow doubt recounts in Wisconsin have his- will follow the facts in all cases.” the U.S. on Wednesday set an- White House. But Biden’s vic- about the outcome of the race. A torically changed the vote tally by For four years, Democrats other record for daily confirmed tories in the Great Lakes states day after falsely claimed that he only a few hundred votes; Biden have been haunted by the crum- coronavirus cases as several left him at 264, meaning he was had won the election, he voiced led by more than 20,000 ballots bling of the blue wall, the trio of states posted all-time highs. The one battleground state away — support Thursday for ceasing out of nearly 3.3 million counted. Great Lakes states — Michigan, pandemic has killed more than any would do — from becoming the tallying of legally-cast votes Biden has an edge over Trump Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — 233,000 people in the United president-elect. in a tweet, saying, “STOP THE after victories in Wisconsin and that their candidates had been States. Trump, with 214 electoral COUNT!” He later falsely as- Michigan, two key Midwestern able to count on every four years. votes, faced a much higher hur- serted that ballots received after battleground states. Contests in But Trump’s populist appeal Please see Election, Page 3 COVID-19 Cases US sets daily record ASSOCIatED PRESS New confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the U.S. have climbed to an all-time high of more than 86,000 per day on average, in a glimpse of the worsening crisis that lies ahead for the winner of the presidential election. Cases and hospitalizations are setting records all around the country just as the holidays and winter approach, demonstrating the challenge that either Presi- dent Donald Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden will face in the coming months. Daily new confirmed coro- navirus cases in the U.S. have surged 45% over the past two weeks, to a record 7-day aver- age of 86,352, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins Uni- Contributed Photo versity. Deaths are also on the The Elliott State Forest, which has been proposed to become a research forest managed by Oregon State University. rise, up 15 percent to an average of 846 deaths every day. The total U.S. death toll is already more than 232,000, and Elliott State Forest forum set for today total confirmed U.S. cases have surpassed 9 million. Those are THE WORLD Zoom at 5:30 p.m. to hear from in” session will be held Friday, plan would allow for research the highest totals in the world, university and state leaders about according to the department. on forestry management practic- and new infections are increasing The Oregon Department of the proposal, as well as ask ques- In 2018, state leaders proposed es on a much larger scale than in nearly every state. State Lands and Oregon State tions about the draft proposal and the idea of turning over the more the university’s other research Several states on Wednesday University will be hosting a public contribute feedback. Registration than 90,000 acres of forest land forests, and would include some reported grim numbers that are forum Thursday about the univer- information is available on the to the university, and separating timber sales to keep the forest fueling the national trends. Texas sity’s proposal to turn the Elliot department’s website. the land from Oregon’s education self-sufficient. reported 9,048 new cases and State Forest into a research forest, The forum is the second and funding system. The university has The State Land Board will 126 deaths, and the number of according to the department. last such event during the depart- been working since then to draft a meet on Dec. 8 to formally hear coronavirus patients in Missouri, Members of the public are ment’s discussions of what to do proposal for the use of the land. the university’s proposal, the Nebraska and Oklahoma hospi- invited to attend the session via with the forest. Another “drop- OSU’s draft proposal says the board says. tals set records. About a third of the new cases in Texas happened in hard-hit El Paso, where a top health officials said hospitals are Trump files election lawsuits in three states at a “breaking point.” Public health experts fear WASHINGTON (AP) — As counted, and raised absentee bal- states, adding, “No one’s going fears of voting in person during a potentially dire consequences, at Democrat Joe Biden inched lot concerns, the campaign said. to take our democracy away from pandemic. least in the short term. closer to the 270 Electoral The Associated Press called us — not now, not ever.” Mail ballots normally take Trump’s current term doesn’t College votes needed to win Michigan for Democrat Joe Campaign spokesman Andrew more time to verify and count. end until Jan. 20. In the 86 days the White House, President Biden on Wednesday. The AP has Bates said legal challenges were This year, because of the large until then, 100,000 more Amer- Donald Trump’s campaign put not called Nevada, Pennsylvania not the behavior of a winning numbers of mail ballots and a icans will likely die from the into action the legal strategy the or Georgia. campaign. close race, results were expected virus if the nation doesn’t shift president had signaled for weeks: The Trump campaign also is “What makes these charades to take longer. course, said Dr. Robert Murphy, attacking the integrity of the vot- seeking to intervene in a Penn- especially pathetic is that while The lawsuits the Trump executive director of the Institute ing process in states where the sylvania case at the Supreme Trump is demanding recounts in campaign filed in Michigan and for Global Health at Northwest- result could mean his defeat. Court that deals with whether places he has already lost, he’s Pennsylvania on Wednesday ern University’s Feinberg School Democrats scoffed at the legal ballots received up to three days simultaneously engaged in fruit- called for a temporary halt in the of Medicine, echoing estimates challenges the president’s cam- after the election can be counted, less attempts to halt the counting counting until it is given “mean- from other public health experts. paign filed Wednesday in Penn- deputy campaign manager Justin of votes in other states in which ingful” access in numerous “Where we are is in an ex- sylvania, Michigan and Georgia.