projections put joe biden in the white house says the 46th u.s. president as the key state of pennsylvania declares more of its vote count the presumptive president elect has addressed his supporters declaring victory. people of this nation have spoken. they delivered us a clear victory earlier donald trump declared victory for himself in the election there could still be a twist though as the republicans launch lawsuits over a late surge in postal ballots for by the. end of. the 4th year. and the

fallout from election night in america creates division we hear from new yorkers as claims of fraud hang over the u.s. democratic system. because ole miss go noise you know. you go to bed to put it to the people you trust is a direct threat to i looked up my to see trump he's frightened he needs to find out what he's fighting for because to be some kind of fronts in this country. you're watching our international special election coverage my name is donald quarter and i'll be joining you for the program joe biden's address the american people after being declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election major media outlets are projecting that the former vice president has been elected the 46th president of the united states having secured 290. electoral votes just

a reminder 270 are needed for victory and biden's projected win in pennsylvania pushed him across that threshold president meanwhile stands at 214 and now with more of the latest details here is r t america's ben swan. joe biden has officially become the president elect for the united states it was saturday when that announcement was made by a number of media organizations after biden secured more than 270 electoral votes enough to put him over the top he spoke in wilmington delaware tonight alongside the 1st vice president of the united states come all the harris' 1st woman ever to ascend to the position of vice president here's what harry had to say in introducing the new president have elected a president who represents the best and. a leader the world will respect and our children will look up to a commander in chief will respect our troops and keep our country safe and

a president for. america and the new president elect biden took to the stage tonight talked about the need for the nation to heal to come together and to be ready to move into a new chapter. joe biden becomes the oldest person ever to be elected president of the united states 5 days after voting 1st closed here's some of what biden had to say the people of this nation have spoken. they've delivered a clear victory a convention victory a victory. for we the people we've won with the most rooms ever crash of presidential ticket in the history of the nation 74 you. know obviously this call doesn't come without controversy as i said a number of media organizations made this call but it doesn't officially become official until the. vote is certified across the united states in 50 different

states and that won't happen over the course of a number of days in the meantime on monday the trump campaign continues to push against this and will file a number of lawsuits in court including in michigan in pennsylvania in arizona in nevada in all of those states the president's team is claiming there has been rampant and widespread voter fraud in the fraud to actually overturn the election here's what the president had to say tonight we all know why joe biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner and why his media allies are trying so hard to help him they don't want the truth to be exposed the simple fact is this election is far from over now to be clear it's very difficult to have enough of these cases to be able to actually overturn the results of an election because it's more than just being able to prove fraud you would also have to be able to prove that there was enough fraud to actually change the outcome of the election and how far does it go does it go all the way to the u.s.

supreme court in each one of these individual states that remains to be seen but in the meantime it seems that president trump is not yet conceding the race to president elect biden we should also mention that as these cases go forward there is some precedent for this back in the year 2000 when al gore and george w. bush ran against each other there was only one state that was ultimately contested that was the state of florida that race went on for 37 days while the new ballots were counted it remains to be seen how long this race could continue with all of these different court challenges across the nation i'm been swan. now on to lansing michigan where hundreds of trump supporters turned out on the streets protesting against what they called a rigged election things got ugly when they were met by counter protesters. the. rich. men wearing trump shirts could. the seen landing blows on someone

backed against a car before others intervened more than 500 people gathered waving trunk flags wearing maggette hats and chanting slogans such as 4 more years. while trump has returned to the white house following media projections calling the race for biden he was given the cold shoulder as he entered washington. as the presidential motorcade entered the nation's capital it was met by boos with demonstrators chanting loser trump spent saturday morning taking some time out at the golf course and so far refused to concede and is promising continued legal challenges it's been an election season that seemingly deepen the rifts and division of u.s. society the 2 camps are out in their hundreds in support of biden and trump right now with crowds gathering in washington d.c. new york philadelphia and other major cities across the country delays and claims

of voter fraud have created rifts and raised questions about the u.s. democratic system we've got reaction from people in new york. because the whole mess go annoying you know. you've got to do what better put it people the american people you know just what the book put american people and what the right person is in a sea that's going to go put a people of america that dish out is a direct threat to our democracy to our freedom and to our everything that we live for and everything everybody went for on this country so i think he's already proven himself to be a threat to democracy my whole is that we can get past. this all the hysterics of the last 4 years and start moving forward as a country is no rule of law and at this point even though he's going to losses which is probably going to delay the presidency and from he's frightened he needs to find out what he's fighting for because to be some kind of fronts in this

country so we need to make sure there is for democracy i think there's a murderer who who remains my whole point is that i hope where were we the people have freedom job. maybe care and they can be free to be whoever they want to. earlier my colleague sausage taylor and i put the election outcome up for debate with a couple of our guests. we've had media lie to us over the last 4 years extensively and so i'm not very surprised that the media is calling an election which has yet decided once all the legal votes are counted certainly then someone will have a right to pop some quirks but for right now it's a little premature at this point in time what we're looking at simply is the math the math is simply not there anymore and we're this president to clean and iraq for you regularity the bath is not there for him to be what appears to be president you left bodies lead in states like pennsylvania georgia in the bottom and potentially arizona do you think there needs to be some serious changes or serious political

overhaul after this 2020 lection i think the system works and i think i think it will work itself out i think our electoral system works i think that our electoral college works i believe in it when it doesn't work for my party and i believe in it when it does work for my party i also feel the same way about our rule of law and about our constitution and about our court system which will sort out this election as well i think that it's time for us to look at that and to look at new systems that are going to make sure that the jordie of the people's votes is that much is the will of the majority of the people that's not the key it's right now we were able to engineer victories when the majority of the people. have not voted for particular candidate and that's going to continue to be a problem if we are indeed seeing sort of the waning days of the troubles presidency a lot of people have blamed him for the divisiveness on polarize ation in society in jena do you think that he is to blame and i think that the evidence speaks for itself that he is gaining the president is gaining minority votes intro's and i

don't believe that we're seeing the waning days of his presidency i believe we're seeing the beginning of the 2nd term of his presidency and i believe that you'll only see him bringing together more and more people no other president all these other democrat and republican i might add administrations have said they were going to do all these things for minority populations they have it i will agree with that madam done. i did not create the did business of this country but did benefit from the the business of this country and utilize the business of this country i think that this country was founded on freedom and free markets and that's what's beautiful about this country is that we can come together as martin luther king jr sad people not by the color of their skin but the content of their character i hope we can get there we have to stop deodorizing in theater ties with martin luther king when it seems as yes it was founded on free markets and that commodity of the free market were slaves and we have to be honest and tell the full story and that's going to be the process of us maybe being able to come together we can't have

justice without peace but we can't have peace or justice without truth. now the reaction to joe biden's projected victory has gone far beyond the u.s. with a range of world leaders sending their congratulations to both biden and come all of heris european politicians were among the 1st to react to the projections earlier charlotte dubinsky told my colleague saw taylor about what was said. he does in europe have been quick to flock to congratulate biden on his victory will start off with vanderlyn who is the european commission president she offered her warm congratulations to the biden harris team and she talked about the u.s. and the e.u. as being allies and friends sebastian kurtz who is the austrian chancellor tweeted about the shared values between the 2 countries. prime minister talked about the us being able to count on italy is being

a solid hour like an evening there was a note from here in stoltenberg who is the chief of nato saying that he knows that joe biden is a strong supporter of the organization also congratulations coming through from the prime minister of the u.k. the french president and the german chancellor congratulations to joe biden on his election as president of the united states and to come our harris on her historic achievement the u.s. is our most important ally and i look forward to working closely together on our shared priorities from climate change to trade and security the americans have chosen their president congratulations joe biden and come all of ours we have a lot to do to overcome today's challenges let's work together i look forward to future cooperation with president biden our transatlantic friendship is irreplaceable if we are to master of the great challenges of our time well so much congratulations but let's be clear not everybody is going to be welcoming

a biden presidency and one person's perhaps not feeling too great about that right now is the slovenian prime minister who this week could actually tweeted that he was congratulating trump for his win he's also talked about biden in the past suggesting that biden as president would be one of the weakest u.s. presidents in history but let's not forget he has a personal ties in the game he. because milan a trump the current 1st lady is of course from slovenia we heard there about reaction from my callers so let's take a look how to biden presidency change relations with germany for example well i'm glad merkel is a staunch politician somebody who would work with anyone and we've seen her try to work with trump over the last few years but clearly germany is hoping for easier relations in the next 4 years it wants to perhaps strengthen the transatlantic cooperation between the 2 countries some of the issues that germany is going to be

most concerned about is the fact of the trade was that donald trump was famously have these trade wars with the e.u. over various issues there's also the issue of the nude stream to this gas pipeline coming straight from russia into germany the u.s. currently has sanctions on companies that are working with that and they're also the bigger issues issues of nato iran all of these germany will be hoping that they will be able to work with an ally we know that obviously over the last couple of years we've seen how trial has been pulling out of some international agreement so the paris climate accords that drew a lot of criticism of the iran nuclear deal how do you think biden coming into the oval office could see things change getting the e.u. all hope that maybe some decisions will be even reversed well we know already that biden has been incredibly clear what t. makes of some of these agreements you mentioned that the paris climate accord

donald trump famously pulled the u.s. out of saying he wasn't happy with it that sort of caused a bit of a fraction in the relationship between him and france's president a man you are not corn now biden has been clear that the 1st day of his presidency he would reenter into that agreement and in fact that's one of the things that many of the european leaders the m.p.c. any piece of been talking about on social media. it is the fact that they're welcoming that the u.s. would be back it would be their part of the paris climate to quote in regards to the uranium nuclear deal again not something that trump pulled the u.s. away from something that was negotiated and the obama presidency when of course joe biden was vice president so there is that joe biden if he is the $46.00 president of the u.s. will be somebody who will want to go back to the negotiating table and trying to smooth over those relations but there is a big concern here that if biden is the 46 president he's going to have so much on

his plate when it comes to domestic issues whether that's the fallout from the election with of that's the 1000 pandemic whether that's the economy that europe may be waiting before those issues are dealt with. now to get some insight into the u.s. election situation we go live now to joseph gregory mahoney president professor of politics at east china normal university joseph thank you very much for joining us on the program now the trump campaign is filing lawsuits over alleged voter fraud connected to mail in ballots and the exclusion of republican observers do you think this is a threat to joe biden's apparent victory. i don't think it's a real threat at all whether or not trump himself knows this it's seems obvious at this point that his operatives do you know what we were seeing in the past week that trump ministration was filing lawsuits to stop vote counts when he was holding slim leads and now that he's fallen behind now he's he's saying let's count all the

votes so i don't see how this is going to play out i don't see any credible legal expert that says that they have a chance to actually work the election. lawsuits at this point so i think that what we're seeing is the end result. whether or not it does have a positive or negative effect on the outcome of the election we can go back to actually trump winning in 2016 when this had a lot of legal scrutiny around it and a years long investigation actually so do you think perhaps the political establishment is going to conduct a similar type of investigation that's going to be really drawn out the same as in 2016 well i think we have to understand what precisely you mean by that if you mean that did did the trump of ministration pursue a lot of investigations over alleged voter fraud by the democrats and 26 think that

was the case but there were no substantial there was never any is essential evidence or convictions in that direction will be so you potential biden presidency pursuing claims against republicans i don't think so and certainly i don't think we'll see much against democratic efforts because again we haven't seen any real credible evidence even from the top administration despite trying claiming to the contrary that there have been serious. irregularities. well if the current election situation has proven anything it's that america is in a very divisive time in its history joe biden is calling for unity now he says that he will be the president for all americans but what about his strong anti trump rhetoric before the election to what extent do you think he can mend the divisions in society given that more than 70000000 votes went to donald trump. well you know the number one vote getter in american history is joe biden and number 2 is donald trump in this election the electorate is very evenly split.

performed expectations we would be a lot of people thought he would be getting closer to 4446 percent maybe as high as 48 percent nationally and it's going to be a real challenge to unify we have a lot of systemic problems a lot of polarization konami political racial it can be very difficult particularly in this in this very difficult period of coded 19 we had 126000 new cases yesterday and the record so it's going to be very very difficult particularly as it continues to. muddy the waters and claim the election is being stolen and we're already seeing some reports of violence from trump supporters who feel that they've been cheated. how do you think this standoff over the election results can affect u.s. foreign policy what kind of steps can we expect from donald trump in what looks to be his last months in the oval office.

well i think what we often see with presidents who are in their last months of oval office there's a range of. politically unsavory pardons. a lot of executive orders and a new incoming president will spend the 1st several days countermanding a lot of his executive orders is is it possible that we might see some sort of more aggressive action out of trump maybe a preemptive attack on iran or some other and i mean i don't think so i don't think so for 2 reasons i think that. executive power is bigger than one man alone i think the military trumps. close aides are going to work to moderate there will be pressure to begin a transition the system is bigger than one man and beyond that it's impossible for him to give illegal orders even even when he's won an election so i'm not too concerned about it but surely everyone needs to be minding their p's and q.'s because he has proven himself to be unpredictable in the past. just one last

question and staying on the topic of foreign policy how do you think biden is going to approach china or the u.s. his relationship with china do you think it's going to return to the way it was before trump's presidency or continue course. nothing will return i think i think what we see if we look at the core group surrounding biden in terms of foreign policy aside from generalist we see people who are focused mainly on europe and russia and i think that's where we're going to see the real focus of his efforts i think what we'll see with respect to china is a pause i don't think will ever return to what was in the past but i do think that we will see a moderating position maybe a moderating position in terms of the trade war which of course is kind of very heavy burden on the u.s. itself. joseph gregory mahoney professor of politics at east china normal university thank you very much for joining us on the program. now the

media are projecting that joe biden has been elected to the 46 the president of the united states having secured 290 electoral college votes just a reminder 270 are needed for victory and the former v.p. win in his home state of pennsylvania has pushed him across that threshold donald trump meanwhile stands at 214 jubilation there but donald trump's legal team has filed lawsuits in pennsylvania georgia michigan arizona and nevada and it says it could go all the way to the supreme court earlier trump claimed he had won on social media after criticizing biden for laying early claims to the white house if trump gets to the supreme gets the supreme court to consider his case it would echo the election 20 years ago when it effectively handed the presidency to george w. bush is going underground host option right town c spoke with trump's impeachment lawyer on the president's chances of winning any legal battle. if you lose the

election by losing pennsylvania there's a strong argument that his lawyers 'd can make that pennsylvania should not count ballots that came in late it's a technical argument but it's the argument that prevailed in bush versus gore and there are already 3 or 4 justices who agree with that argument but it would take a combination of circumstances during the election to bring that case into a posture where you would win in the court so i think it's unlikely you will prevail in the courts but that's his best shot what sort of time scale are we talking about would be about a month as it was in 2000 with the bush and gore i think we'll 'd have a result within weeks not months if pennsylvania becomes a key state then i think it will take months do you think from always had in mind the 300 judges that were appointed under his administration given that he had already been suspecting vote tampering well i think he there are

a lot of reasons why he wanted to appoint lots of judges his base wants conservative judges but i think part of the reason may very well have been as a backstop as a protection in the event that he had to take the election to court any president would think in those terms supporters of term say he shouldn't have given that press conference on the night saying there is fraud and waited a little bit do you think that will affect any court outcome because he was alleging both little fruit even before the election and of course on the night rather than saying this is the state of play at the moment we'll wait and see i don't think that kind of statement affects the courts and it was done after the polls will close so i think it was just him saying what he believed and i don't think it will have any impact either electorally or judicially. well this election has been anything but smooth the only a potential looks at whether the disorder could tarnish america's democratic image

. of all the adjectives to describe democracy which stands for giving the people the right to choose who is in charge the man who stood up to take over the white house didn't pick fair stable or strong democracy sometimes messy it sometimes requires a little patience as well but that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years because just some of government governance the envy of the world just messy or it's just gotten way too messy and his country we have received reports of many irregularities we believe that there are voters that have been counted this is fraud this is absolute fraud trump campaign says they're going to court the biden campaign says it's ready for court fights protests by trump supporters and a series of vote fraud allegations by the president himself trump will go to war over this election and that is dangerous for this country there is quite

a list of things appearing as cracks in the system take the mail in voting in times of covert when the nation was meant to rely on it at one point the postal service warned it couldn't cope the president flushed the method altogether saying it would lead to a rigged poll if you read some of these pieces there have been plenty of such the media has been questioning the confidence in us democracy here it's been watching the mess in the wings with raised eyebrows but the polarization of america should be a warning for europe we are successful because we preach differences between countries and peoples so we benefit together if we lose the ability to compromise with democracies are in danger of being in america does not quite correspond to the democratic culture we know from the united states it's important that the result is the accepted by everyone it's easy to be a winner but sometimes it is hoped to be a loser trumps late night speech puts a question mark over his possible 2nd term in office and he starts. imagine what

the 2nd term would look like when the president directly called for the abolition of the rules of democracy he's cool to stop counting votes is a blow to the essence of american democracy here's a voice of concern from allies japan we can say for the united states to get into turmoil and confusion because of the election is a minus for its allies and like minded countries but perhaps the most fascinating thing to observe is the smear by america's foes after so many times washington told them how wrong things are with their elections. what a spectacle one says this is the most fragile and election in u.s. history who says that the president who's currently in office he's a rival says trump intends to rig the election this is how u.s. elections and u.s. democracy are we do not interfere in the internal affairs of the united states and we hate it when they pretend to give lessons in democracy to the world these beauts

and refusal of election results were supposed to only take place in developing states things have changed over this have occurred in the us which is no longer synonymous with a stable civilised and consensus based society now just for it to go let me read out one tweet as an official one country a calls on country b.'s leaders to show commitment to the democratic process and rule of law we urge all parties groups and individuals to engage in inclusive guy a log to find peaceful solutions to their disagreements to heal national divisions full stop it's a tweet by the u.s. embassy country a in ivory coast country b. from the 4th oh the irony. now just to recap the u.s. media has named joe biden the new president elect topping $270.00 electoral votes

with the addition of pennsylvania vote counting and legal challenges by the trump campaign looks set to continue for many days meanwhile biden and running mate come all the harris have given a victory speech after the race was called in their favor stay with r t as we keep on top of the latest in the 2020 u.s. presidential election. l. look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such orders would conflict

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