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Biden urges Americans to 'stay calm' and says he has 'no doubt' he will be declared winner

Trump, meanwhile, has not been seen in public since election night.

JOE BIDEN HAS told the US people that he has “no doubt” that he is going to become the 46th president of the United States. 

Speaking this evening, Biden urged Americans to “stay calm” and to wait until every vote was counted.

Biden also addressed the nation yesterday evening. The content of this speech was effectively the same as yesterday’s but now with added confidence in victory. 

Meanwhile, Trump has not been seen in public since election night. However, he has continued to launch accusations, via Twitter, that the 2020 election has been marred by “voter fraud”. 

As it stands per projections by Associated Press, Democrat Biden has 264 electoral college votes and just one additional state should clinch him a victory. 

“We continue to feel very good about where things stand. We have no doubt that when the count is finished, Senator (Kamala) Harris and I will be declared the winners,” Biden told reporters in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.

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Biden would require a win in either Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina or his home state Pennsylvania to reach the necessary 270 votes.

Pollsters in the US are hopeful that we will have a result in Pennsylvania tonight or early in the morning.

Trump has to win the state of Pennsylvania. Without it, there is no mathematical way he can reach 270 electoral college votes. 

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    Mute Vanessa
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    Nov 5th 2020, 9:51 PM

    I’m happy that they are likely to get someone who wants to be calm people down rather than fueling riots.

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    Mute Craic_a_tower
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    Nov 5th 2020, 9:56 PM

    @Vanessa: unfortunately when you tell somebody to calm down they tend to get angry

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    Mute Al Fresco
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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:00 PM

    @Craic_a_tower: did you ever try to tell a furious woman to calm down?
    It just never works.

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    Mute The Grand Nagus
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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:18 PM

    @Vanessa:
    Can’t stand Trump but the only riots in the last few months where in Democrats strongholds
    And weren’t Trump supporters

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    Mute JusticeForJoe
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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:46 PM

    @The Grand Nagus: What are you talking about?

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    Mute Gerald Broflovski
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    Nov 5th 2020, 11:07 PM

    @JusticeForJoe: what are you talking about? Riots in LA, Portland since June, all by Antifa and BLM. What is your rebuttal?

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    Mute Nicholas Ryan
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    Nov 5th 2020, 11:13 PM

    @Vanessa: Trump won’t suddenly be silent if he loses. He’ll still be agitating away on Twitter

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    Mute wormtubes
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    Nov 5th 2020, 11:24 PM

    @Craic_a_tower: wanna say that to my fist??

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    Mute Al Fresco
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    Nov 5th 2020, 11:33 PM

    @Nicholas Ryan: let him get on with it, as long as he is gone from the White House the country might be able to move on.

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    Mute Al Fresco
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    Nov 5th 2020, 11:45 PM

    @The Grand Nagus: Did Trump tell you that?
    Try fact checking.

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    Mute JusticeForJoe
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    Nov 6th 2020, 9:39 PM

    @Gerald Broflovski: My rebuttal is to laugh and dismiss you as someone who either doesn’t pay attention to what’s really happening, or deliberately presents a false narrative. Either way, I see this as a waste of time

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    Nov 5th 2020, 9:55 PM

    I wonder what is wrong with the Irish people enthusiastically supporting trump? Absolute cannon fodder. Do they not get that trump is damaging to Ireland

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    Mute The Guy is Here
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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:03 PM

    @John kane: exactly, the copious efforts he has tried to make to take business out of Ireland. Also his many attempts to undermine the brexit deal. You can tell they’ve minimal engagement with the real world, taxes and salaries.

    It’s like slugs supporting salt.

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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:24 PM

    @John kane: most church going Catholics support Trump as he is pro life and is trying to defund abortion providers. Biden and Harris want taxpayers to pay for abortions and when Harris was Attorney General she took nuns to court because they didn’t want their health care plan to provide for contraception.

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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:27 PM

    @Tom Mullally: If that’s the case then most church going catholics should take a deep hard look at what their religion is asking them to support.

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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:41 PM

    @John kane: from my observations, it’s simply down to being a lifelong cabbage and having a ZX spectrum for a brain.

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    Nov 5th 2020, 11:03 PM

    @John kane: Do you not get it that those 3 stooges are damaging to Ireland . Leo. Meehole . Napper

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    Nov 5th 2020, 11:03 PM

    @John kane: Do you not get it that those 3 stooges are damaging to Ireland . Leo. MeeMee . Napper

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    Nov 5th 2020, 11:06 PM

    @Tom Mullally: Religious loons who follow trump, really need a good kick in the hole.

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    Mute Michael Bodycoach
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    Nov 5th 2020, 9:49 PM

    But but but, votes that are not real because we don’t want them to be….

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    Nov 5th 2020, 9:51 PM

    @Michael Bodycoach: I won ,because I said I won.

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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:19 PM

    @Mairead Jenkins: Its my ball, I’m not playing anymore

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    Nov 5th 2020, 9:57 PM

    332 million people in the USA and were down to these two as the prospective leaders… Let’s have the Donald for another 4 years at least its entertaining… Biden doesn’t look like hell last 4 years above ground

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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:04 PM

    @Stuart Collins: I’d say he will be just as funny as trump.

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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:08 PM

    @Stuart Collins: seriously?? A dead goat dragged from a ditch would do a better job of running the US than Trump. He has been an absolute disaster not just for America and the health of their citizens but for the overall health of our planet.

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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:20 PM

    @Stuart Collins: if you’re looking for entertainment, watch Netflix. It’s less detrimental to, well… everything!

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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:29 PM

    @Stuart Collins: Biden is strong enough to defeat Trump.

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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:30 PM

    @2thFairy: nearly half of America are voting trump. Its neck on neck.. So where are the republican views on the is forum.. Everyone is ant trump… At least half of America disagrees and everybody on this forum disagrees with trump…. Ffs. Could care less who wins but one sides views on this forum

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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:48 PM

    @Stuart Collins: that’s because the Irish don’t identify with the Trump supporting Americans. We identify more with the Democrats.
    But be under no illusion Trumpetts are on this forum, their cough has just been softened tonight.
    Biden has received more votes than any other Presidential candidate in history. That’s quite something. Shocking…. but quite something.

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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:49 PM

    @Stuart Collins: They really should be changing the name of the country now, when ya think about it.

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    Nov 5th 2020, 11:00 PM

    @2thFairy: when you say the Irish identify more with the Democrats, why is that?

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    Nov 5th 2020, 11:07 PM

    @2thFairy: yes! For the last few months there has been a constant stream of “ Trump will win by a landslide” comments here, I often wondered what they would say if it didn’t happen. Now I know, they say nothing.!

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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:32 PM

    Hilarious that people on here deriding Americans for voting Trump have been voting for the same gombeens over here for infinity

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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:08 PM

    i certainly would not be supporting trump. he’s behaving like a spoilt child.

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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:08 PM

    As me mother might say. Fine lookin man for 78

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    Mute Stuart Collins
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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:23 PM

    @Aonghus OReilly: very wise mum

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    Nov 5th 2020, 11:08 PM

    @Aonghus OReilly: she must like it rough.

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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:22 PM

    I’m delighted that Biden will take this one and that the end of Trump is nigh. Unfortunately though, when you have a mixture of a deeply unequal society and deeply partisan politics, you’ll never succeed in real change.

    I pity America and fear for its future. The fact that Trump increased his vote from 2016 hints at the trouble to come.

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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:35 PM

    @Dara O’Brien: take solace in the fact that no president in history has received as many votes as Biden. He is the most popular President elect EVER (as shocking as that sounds given he does not come across as a strong choice)

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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:42 PM

    @2thFairy: never have so many Americans actually voted in an election in the history of America before… That may explain this

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    Nov 6th 2020, 11:54 AM

    @2thFairy: Fair point but, by the same yardstick, Trump is now the 2nd most voted for candidate in history …

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    Nov 5th 2020, 11:27 PM

    What a mess regardless of whom wins

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    Nov 5th 2020, 10:46 PM

    The behaviour of Humpty Trumpty has brought only shame upon the office of the President Of The United States.
    Good luck to Biden, hopefully he can restore the damage that has been caused.

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