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America makes up its mind Georgia and North Carolina were the last states to be called in the US Presidential race, ten days after the election. Democratic nominee Joe Biden won 306 Electoral Votes in total, flipping five states along the way. President Donald Trump improved on his 2016 performance, gaining 1.4 percentage points in the share of ballots, and attracting a huge 73.2 million individual votes. That number is second in the history of US elections only to the 78.9 million popular votes obtained by Biden. The result makes Donald Trump the first one-term President since George H.W. Bush in 1992. That year was also the last time that Georgia had turned blue, delivering a win for Bill Clinton. But unlike Mr Bush, President Trump has refused to concede, instructing instead his personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani to launch a flurry of lawsuits challenging election results in multiple states. Experts, however, are doubtful that the legal actions will have any significant impact on the election results. Influential people in the Republican Party including Sente Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have closed ranks with the President, claiming that the election is not over yet. Others, such as Michigan Representative Paul Mitchell and former Trump advisor John Bolton urged the President to concede. Surveys in the weeks before the election suggesting a big blue wave rising to Congress were wide of the mark, and although Democrats held on to their majority in the House by winning the 218 seats to put them in control, Republicans made inroads and narrowed down 3
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