In the first speech after announcing victory, Biden vehemently attacks Trump, affirms that democracy has triumphed in America

Democrat Joe Biden won the Electoral College, which formally determines the next president of the United States, nearly ending President Donald Trump’s campaign to reverse his defeat in the November 3 election.

And California, the state with the largest population and 55 electoral college votes, gave Biden the vote to formally pass the Democrat over the quorum required to win the presidency of 270 votes.

Based on the results of November, Biden received 306 votes in the compound, compared to 232 for Trump.

Biden called on Americans to “turn the page” of the Trump era in a prime-time speech on Monday.

“The flame of democracy was lit in this country for a long time, and we now know that nothing, neither the pandemic nor even an abuse of power, can extinguish this flame,” he said.

“In this battle for the soul of America, democracy has prevailed,” he added.

Earlier on Monday, electoral college members in a number of major states that have seen rivalry between Biden and Trump, namely Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, voted for Biden, who and his deputy, Kamel Harris, are due to take office on January 20.

The electoral college vote, which was scheduled for Monday under federal law, gained significant prominence due to Trump’s unfounded allegations of widespread fraud.

There is no other chance to deny Biden victory, and with Trump’s legal campaign failing to reverse the results, the president’s weak hopes are related to the ability to persuade Congress not to accept the outcome of the electoral college vote during a special session on January 6, an effort that is almost certain to be It will fail.

As soon as Biden takes office, he faces the task of tackling the Coronavirus pandemic, reviving the US economy, and rebuilding relations that have been strained with US allies abroad due to Trump’s “America first” policies.

In Arizona, Democratic State Secretary Katie Hobbs said at the start of the electoral college meeting there that Trump’s allegations of fraud “have led to threats of violence against me, my office, and those in this room today” echoing similar reports of threats and intimidation in other states.

“At a time when people will be frustrated that their candidate has not won, it is frankly… unacceptable that today’s event should be anything other than immortalizing a tradition held with pride and celebration,” Hobbes said.

A group of Trump supporters called on Facebook for all-day protests in front of the State House in Lansing, Michigan, one of the toughest states that saw Trump lose.

According to a complex system dating back to the 1880s, a candidate does not become president of the United States by winning a majority of the popular vote but through an electoral college system that allocates the votes to the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on the population of each state.

While there is sometimes a group of “rogue” electoral college members voting for someone other than the popular vote winner in their state, the overwhelming majority approves the results.

Trump said late last month that he would leave the White House if the electoral college votes for Biden, but he has since pressed with his unprecedented campaign to reverse his defeat.

On Monday, he repeated a series of unsupported allegations of electoral fraud.

“The swing states that have detected electoral fraud, not all of them can legally certify that these votes are complete and correct without committing a serious crime,” he wrote on Twitter.