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Key dates for the Electoral College and what they mean-AEIdeas-DECEMBER 14,20
What are the key dates for the workings of the Electoral College?
November 3 — Election Day
Election Day is November 3. We may or may not know the winner of the presidential contest on election night, but we certainly will not have a final tally and certified results until weeks later. States vary widely in the time they allot for certifying their election results. Some may give a final certification the week after Election Day. Others may take over 30 days. And there is the possibility of recounts and judicial contests of elections which could extend the time to determine an official winner of a state.
Ballots are passed out to 16 Electors on the Michigan Senate floor for them to cast their formal votes for the president and vice president of the United States in Lansing, Michigan, U.S., December 19, 2016. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
December 8 — Safe Harbor
December 14 — The meeting of the Electors
Two key dates loom in December. On December 14, presidential electors must have been selected by the states and will meet as a group in their states to cast electoral votes for president and vice president. But December 8 is also a significant date, the so-called “safe harbor” date. The Electoral Count Act sets this date as an important date for states to make their official selection of electors, as those electoral votes will be given greater protection from challenge when Congress counts the electoral votes in January. The Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore assigned great significance to this date in Bush v. Gore.
January 3 — The convening of the new Congress
January 6 — Congress counts the votes
January 20 — Inauguration Day. The new presidential term begins at noon.
On January 3rd, the new Congress will take office, and on January 6th it will meet to count the electoral votes and declare a president- and vice president-elect. On January 20th at noon, the current presidential term will end and the next one will begin.This is excerpted from the new fourth edition of After the People Vote, edited by John Fortier, senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a member of AEI’s Election Watch team.John C. Fortier-AEI Adjunct Scholar-SENOIRFELLOWKarlyn Bowman-Senior Fellow
US: 'We stand by our principles, stand up for what is right' 2 to 167: Just Israel, US reject UN budget, over alleged bias against Jerusalem-Two allies object specifically to funding 20th-anniversary event for 2001 Durban conference, where motion equated Zionism with racism; $3.2 billion budget endorsed by 167 nations-By TOI staff and AFP-DEC 31,20-Today, 12:20 am
US President Donald Trump’s outgoing administration on Thursday fired a late salvo against the United Nations by voting against its budget, citing disagreements on Israel and Iran — but it found almost no international support.Only Israel voted with the United States, with 167 nations in favor, as the General Assembly closed the year by approving the $3.231 billion UN budget for 2021.Kelly Craft, the US ambassador to the United Nations, voiced objections that the budget would fund a 20th-anniversary event for the 2001 UN conference on racism in Durban, South Africa, where the United States walked out in solidarity with Israel after countries advanced a motion equating Zionism with racism. That analogy was deleted before the motion passed.The United States, the biggest funder of the UN, “called for this vote to make clear that we stand by our principles, stand up for what is right and never accept consensus for consensus’s sake,” Craft said on the General Assembly floor.(From L-R) UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan, US UN Ambassador Kelly Craft, US Special Envoy for Iran Brian Hook and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meet in New York on August 21, 2020. (Ronny Przysucha/Israeli UN Mission)-“Twenty years on, there remains nothing about the Durban Declaration to celebrate or to endorse. It is poisoned by anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias,” she said.Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, said that the Durban conference “will become another meeting demonizing the Jewish state — it will be used once again to slander us and to launch false accusations of racism against Jewish self-determination.”“Today we must all speak out against commemorating the disgrace that was the Durban Conference,” Erdan said. “Israel opposes any measure aimed at allocating a budget for this purpose — we all know that such funds will not be used to support human rights but to spread even more anti-Semitism and hate towards Israel.”“It is part of a wider anti-Israel bias at the UN,” said Erdan. “I will not stand by when such lies and incitement against Israel and the Jewish people are freely given a platform.”The General Assembly separately approved a resolution backing follow-up efforts on the Durban conference.That resolution passed 106-14 with 44 abstentions. The United States and Israel were joined in voting no by Western powers including Britain, France and Germany.Craft also complained about how the United States received almost no support in the world body in September when it declared that UN sanctions against Iran had come back into force.The Trump administration said it was triggering UN sanctions due to alleged Iranian violations of a nuclear deal negotiated by former US president Barack Obama, but even US allies scoffed at the argument that Washington remained a participant in an accord that Trump had loudly rejected.“The US doesn’t need a cheering section to validate its moral compass,” Craft said. “We don’t find comfort based on the number of nations voting with us, particularly when the majority have found themselves in an uncomfortable position of underwriting terrorism, chaos and conflict.”Craft said that the US vote would not change its UN contribution, including 25 percent of peacekeeping expenditures and some $9 billion a year in UN-channeled humanitarian relief.US President-elect Joe Biden is expected to seek a more cooperative relationship with the UN, including stopping a US exit from the World Health Organization, which Trump blamed for not doing more to stop COVID-19.
Ending tortuous Brexit journey, UK breaks away from EU economy-‘We have our freedom in our hands and it is up to us to make the most of it,’ Boris Johnson says, as London officially severs decades-long partnership with Europe-By Jitendra Joshi and Phil HAZLEWOOD-1 January 2021, 1:40 am
LONDON (AFP) — Britain on Thursday finally severed its turbulent half-century partnership with Europe, quitting the EU single market and customs union and going its own way four-and-a-half years after its shock vote to leave the bloc.Brexit, which has dominated politics on both sides of the Channel since 2016, became a reality as Big Ben struck 11:00 p.m. (2300 GMT) in London, just as most of mainland Europe ushered in 2021.Prime Minister Boris Johnson — the figurehead of the “Leave” campaign — described it as an “amazing moment” for the country and played up his upbeat narrative of a “Global Britain” unshackled from rules set in Brussels.He vowed that post-Brexit Britain, despite being battered by a surge in coronavirus cases, would be an “open, generous, outward-looking, internationalist and free-trading” country.“We have our freedom in our hands and it is up to us to make the most of it..There will be plenty who will be only too happy to say goodbye to the grimness of 2020.But this was also the year when we rediscovered a spirit of togetherness, of community.In 2021 we have our freedom in our hands and it is up to us to make the most of it. Happy New Year! pic.twitter.com/gDRXe2SuCb — Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) December 31, 2020-Legally, Britain left the European Union on January 31 but has been in a standstill transition period during fractious talks to secure a free-trade agreement with Brussels, which was finally clinched on Christmas Eve.Now the transition is over, EU rules no longer apply. The immediate consequence is an end to the free movement of more than 500 million people between Britain and the 27 EU states.Customs border checks return for the first time in decades, and despite the free-trade deal, queues and disruption from additional paperwork are expected.Matt Smith, managing director of HSF Logistics, which ships mainly fresh meat and chilled goods between Britain and Europe, said he was sending around 15 truckloads to the EU on New Year’s Eve ahead of the changes.The government’s new post-Brexit customs systems are largely untested and Smith was doubtful how his business would fare with the new paperwork.After disembarking from a ferry, lorries undergo checks at the port of Dover on the south-east coast of England, just after 2300 GMT, as Britain officially leaves the EU (European Union) trading block, late on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2020 (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)-“We’re not too sure to be honest, it seems to be a bit of a headache,” he told AFP. “There’ll be delays along the line at some stage.”Britain is the first member state to leave the EU, which was set up to forge unity after the horrors of World War II.The 2016 referendum opened up abiding wounds between Leavers and Remainers, and ushered in years of political paralysis before Johnson took power last year, vowing to chart a future for Britain built on scientific innovation and new partnerships across the seas.A parliamentary debate on Wednesday to ratify the trade deal was marked by elegiac farewells from pro-EU lawmakers, and warnings of disruption as Britain dismantles the intricate network of ties built since it joined the EU’s forerunner in 1973.While the EU trade deal averted potential business chaos in the immediate future, the divorce will play out in many practical ways.The clock-face on the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known by the name of the bell, ‘Big Ben’ in London, shows 2300 (GMT), as Britain officially leaves the EU (European Union) trading block, on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2020 (Tolga Akmen / AFP)-Changes apply to everything from pet passports, to how long Britons can visit their holiday homes on the continent and an end to British involvement in a student exchange program.Potential disruption at ports is stoking fears of food and medicine shortages, as well as delays to holidaymakers and business travelers used to seamless travel in the EU.British fishermen are disgruntled at a compromise to allow continued access for EU boats in British waters.The key financial services sector also faces an anxious wait to learn on what basis it can keep dealing with Europe, after being largely omitted from the trade agreement.In a landmark deal sealed just hours before 2300 GMT, the tiny British territory of Gibraltar will become part of Europe’s passport-free zone to keep movement fluid on its border with Spain.Northern Ireland’s border with EU member state Ireland will be closely watched to ensure movement is unrestricted — a key plank of a 1998 peace deal that ended 30 years of violence over British rule.And in pro-EU Scotland, where Brexit has given a boost to calls for a new vote on independence, Johnson faces a potential constitutional headache as 2021 dawns.An anti-Brexit pro-Scottish independence activist holds a flag mixing the EU flag and the Scottish Saltire as she gathers for a small protest against Britain’s exit from the European Union outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on December 31, 2020 (Andy Buchanan / AFP)-But opinion polls indicate that most Britons, on both sides of the referendum divide, want to move on and are far more worried about the worsening coronavirus pandemic, which has hit the country harder than most.Johnson, who himself was among those who was struck down by the virus, warned of tough times ahead because of a resurgence of Covid-19 infections but said a UK-developed vaccine offered grounds for hope.“It’s going to be better,” said Maureen Martin, from the port of Dover that lies across the Channel from France. “We need to govern ourselves and be our own bosses.”Britain is a financial and diplomatic big-hitter and a major NATO power with a permanent seat on the UN Security Council and in the G7 grouping of the world’s richest economies.The EU has now lost 66 million people and an economy worth $2.85 trillion, and there is regret that Britain wanted out.French President Emmanuel Macron said Britain will remain “our friend and ally” but lamented that Brexit was the fruit of “a lot of lies and false promises.”Michel Barnier, head of the European Commission’s Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom at the London School of Economics in London, January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)-“No one has been able to show me the added value of Brexit,” added EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier. “It’s a divorce… you can’t celebrate a divorce.”Boarding a Eurostar train in Paris as the Brexit hour approached, Francois Graffin, 59, said he was going to pack up his life in London and return to live in France.“It breaks my heart,” he said.In Britain, Brexit has been the culmination of years of anti-Brussels agitation as the union morphed from a trading community to a more ambitious political project.However, the 2016 referendum never spelt out what shape Brexit should take.Johnson’s predecessor Theresa May repeatedly failed to drive through a “soft” separation that would have kept Britain largely bound to the EU.But he drove a much harder bargain, to the profound unease of UK businesses and opposition parties.Now after months of stormy negotiations that were repeatedly upended by the pandemic, Brussels, too, is keen to move on.But UK lawmaker Chris Hazzard, from the Irish republican Sinn Fein party, said Brexit was far from over.“When all the bluster dies down… it will become depressingly clear that this trade deal is… the beginning of a new trading relationship built on permanent negotiation, disputes and recriminations,” he warned.The Daily Telegraph, where Johnson made his name as a Brussels-bashing Europe correspondent, said the government faced a new reality shorn of the EU bogeyman.“Politicians will have to get used to bearing much greater responsibilities than they have been used to while the UK has been in the EU,” it said.
Exclusive-Set to amend ‘pay to slay,’ PA hopes Biden will shun law deeming PLO ‘terrorist’ Palestinians aim to fundamentally change relationship with US when new president takes office, hope to reopen PLO office in DC, including by overcoming a US law that hinders ties-By Jacob Magid-DEC 31,20-Today, 6:16 pm
NEW YORK — With just three weeks until US President-elect Joe Biden enters the White House, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is putting together a strategy for a reset of ties with Washington after three years of boycotting the Trump administration.The centerpiece of the effort will be convincing the Biden administration to designate as unconstitutional congressional legislation from 1987 that labeled the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) “and its affiliates” a terror group, senior Palestinian officials told The Times of Israel.They hope that doing so will set the stage for a renewed bilateral relationship — one in which Ramallah is viewed as a more equal partner, and that isn’t entirely tied to the peace process with Israel.PA President Mahmoud Abbas severed relations with the Trump administration after US President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December 2017 and moved the US embassy there from Tel Aviv in May 2018. He also preemptively rejected Trump’s January 2020 “vision” for Israeli-Palestinian peace. The administration, while repeatedly urging Abbas to reengage, drastically reduced state funding for the Palestinians.Senior Palestinian officials told The Times of Israel that a fresh willingness to alter the way it pays stipends to Palestinian security prisoners, as well as the families of terrorists and others killed by Israelis, is aimed at laying the groundwork for the new diplomatic push.The altered policy would base the stipends on prisoners’ financial need rather than the length of their sentence, potentially marking a shift away from what has long been a sticking point for the PA’s detractors.The readiness to amend the stipends policy was first reported by The New York Times last month and confirmed to The Times of Israel this week by a senior Palestinian official.The practice of paying allowances to those convicted of carrying out terror attacks and to the families of those killed while carrying out attacks — often referred to by some Israeli officials as a pay-to-slay policy — has been pilloried by critics as incentivizing terror.Palestinian leaders have long defended the payments, describing them as a form of social welfare and necessary compensation for victims of Israel’s callous military justice system in the West Bank.Over the past year, officials in the US and the EU have warned Ramallah that a failure to substantively change the policy would prove a major obstacle to improved relations, two sources familiar with the matter said.The change may also usher Ramallah into compliance with the 2018 Taylor Force Act, which suspended US aid to the PA as long as it continued to implement the existing prisoner payment policy.An effort to amend the practice would be “a step forward… if it means that the welfare allocations will be similar to those of needy families, which are less than a tenth of what the terrorists earn,” said Yossi Kupferwasser, the former research division head in the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate, and a vocal critic of the PA’s stipends policy. “If not, this is a trick.”Highlighting his skepticism, Kupferwasser pointed to an announcement earlier this month by the PA Prisoners Affairs Commission that it would pay three months of the prisoner salaries in advance in order to avoid an Israeli military order penalizing banks that distribute them.-A means to an end-As Ramallah moves to change the controversial practice, it hopes that Biden will agree to deem the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987 an unconstitutional constraint on his powers, said two senior Palestinian officials, insisting on anonymity.The reality has changed dramatically since 1987, the officials said. As part of the 1993 Oslo Accords, Israel recognized the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people. The PA governing body that was formed as part of that deal has gone on to ink bilateral anti-terrorism agreements with both the US and Israel. Also as part of the accords, PLO chairman Yasser Arafat publicly renounced violence as a means for achieving self-determination — a commitment Israeli leaders have long dismissed, with many alleging that Arafat played a direct role in orchestrating the suicide bombing onslaught of the Second Intifada.But in a post-Oslo era where Ramallah has relations with both the US and Israel, “it is simply unfair to continue deeming the PLO a terror organization,” said a member of the PLO’s National Council. Palestinian officials declined to speak on record, saying that they feared the intended strategy would be interpreted as an ultimatum to the transition team before the US president-elect even takes office.Snubbing the 1987 law designating the PLO a terror group, as two of Biden’s predecessors did, would allow for the reopening of the PLO mission in Washington.Distinct from, yet affiliated with the PA, the PLO coalition of Palestinian factions had been operating a diplomatic office since the Oslo Accords until it was closed by the Trump administration in 2018.The 1987 legislation deeming the PLO a terror group remained in place, but Congress allowed for the mission’s operation, so long as the president signed a waiver every six months stipulating that doing so was a US national interest.In 2011, Congress began placing additional conditions on the mission’s continued presence, including one requiring the president to certify that “the Palestinians have entered into direct and meaningful negotiations with Israel.” This effectively conditioned Washington’s relations with the Palestinians on a substantive peace process.That paradigm is one the Palestinians are desperate to change. “We’re not asking to detach the peace process from the relationship entirely, but ties shouldn’t be exclusively judged based on the outcome of it, because that punishes Palestinians regardless of whether they’re responsible for the stalemate,” said the PLO’s National Council member who spoke to The Times of Israel.Other provisions to the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987 added by Congress in recent years have included a ban on the Palestinians joining any UN bodies or pursuing a case against Israel at the-International Criminal Court.When Ramallah began to seek action against Israel at the ICC in 2017, filing an official complaint against Israel at The Hague, it effectively prevented Trump from signing the waiver and the PLO mission was officially shuttered in September 2018.Nonetheless, US legal tradition gives presidents wide leeway to disregard parts of laws that they deem to be unconstitutional shackles on their powers, especially regarding foreign policy.Biden could use that privilege to allow the mission to reopen, thus obviating the need for the waiver along the way. Otherwise, the only way to reopen the diplomatic office within the confines of the law would be to alter provisions that banned the Palestinians from Washington once they went to the ICC. Then the waiver process could be re-introduced.The Palestinians, however, are intent on resetting relations entirely, rather than simply returning to the days where their operations in DC were limited and constantly under a microscope.One Palestinian official who spoke to The Times of Israel on the condition of anonymity said Ramallah could no longer accept its presence in Washington being up for debate every six months. However, he recognized that the eradication of the 1987 law would take time and characterized it as an “intermediate goal” that would likely require at least a year to see through.Biden indeed campaigned on reopening the PLO mission as well as a US consulate in East Jerusalem, but one former campaign adviser familiar with the transition’s discussions on the matter said that the president-elect has yet to decide how he would go about doing so.In the meantime, the Palestinians may be forced to continue operating without representatives in Washington.The PLO national council member acknowledged that the Israeli-Palestinian issue likely won’t be at the top of the Biden administration’s agenda, but said that declaring the 1987 legislation unconstitutional would prevent the further deterioration of US-Palestinian ties in the interim.When Trump did the Palestinians a favor-While doing so might require a degree of political capital, there is in fact precedent for the move.In a signing statement issued at the time of the passage of the 1987 legislation, US president Ronald Reagan asserted that while he had no intention of forging ties with the Palestinians, “the right to decide the kind of foreign relations, if any, the United States will maintain is encompassed by the President’s authority under the Constitution” and by not Congress through legislation aimed at handcuffing the executive’s diplomatic capabilities.Subsequent presidents chose to ignore Reagan’s concerns, even after the Oslo Accords, deciding that they would operate within the letter of the law and sign the presidential waiver every six months.It was Trump who ended that trend. He went further than Reagan when he allowed the PLO mission to remain open for almost a year after the Palestinians began pursuing a criminal case against Israel in the ICC in the fall of 2017, in direct violation of the Congressional provision to the 1987 law.Instead, Trump’s State Department simply asked the Palestinians to limit their operations “to those related to achieving a lasting, comprehensive peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.”The PA hopes that when it changes its prisoner payment practice, Biden will be prepared to similarly disregard the 1987 legislation. To justify the reopening of the PLO mission, the incoming president could simply point to the precedent set by Reagan and Trump. No further action would be needed. While the position could be challenged in court, the executive’s constitutionally granted authority to oversee diplomatic relations would be difficult to rebut.Alternatively, Congress could simply repeal the Anti-Terrorism Act, but doing so would be a much taller order, given that the legislative branch has historically been much tougher on the Palestinians than the executive.Mission impossible? Even if the Biden administration grants Ramallah’s wish, the PA will still face obstacles once the PLO mission is reopened. This is because the return of its officials to Washington would trigger the 2018 Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act (ATCA), which allows American victims of terror to sue the PA for damages in US courts by deeming Ramallah’s monthly “martyr” allowances funding for terrorism.Skirting such suits would require the US secretary of state to invoke exemptions listed in the legislation. This would be politically fraught but legally tenable and also easier to justify if the Biden administration could point to Ramallah’s reform of the prisoner payments policy.“There are forces out there that are going to be looking to exact a political price on Biden for anything that he does that is seen as conciliatory for the Palestinians,” said Foundation for Middle East Peace president Lara Friedman, a dovish commentator on Israel. “The best thing he can do is own his policies.”She added that heeding the PA’s request regarding the 1987 legislation “would be a powerful declaration of independence by Biden from decades of foreign policy-making shackled by logic and legal constructs [imposed by Congress] geared not to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace but to prevent it.”“Aside from declaring the law unconstitutional, Biden has no clear path to allowing the PLO back in Washington,” Friedman said.The Biden transition team and the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office declined a request to comment on this story.
Iran’s Zarif says Trump trying to fabricate ‘pretext for war’Slamming US president for show of force in region, foreign minister says Tehran will ‘openly and directly defend its people, security & vital interests’-By TOI staff-31 December 2020, 4:37 pm
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday accused outgoing US President Donald Trump of attempting to fabricate a “pretext for war” as tensions mount between the two countries.His remarks come ahead of the first anniversary of the US killing of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad on January 3.US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz has been patrolling Gulf waters since late November and two American B-52 bombers recently overflew the region.“Instead of fighting Covid in US, @realDonaldTrump & cohorts waste billions to fly B52s & send armadas to OUR region,” Zarif wrote on Twitter.“Intelligence from Iraq indicate plot to FABRICATE pretext for war,” he added.A US Air Force B-52H ‘Stratofortress’ from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., is refueled by a KC-135 ‘Stratotanker’ in the US Central Command area of responsibility, December 30, 2020. (Senior Airman Roslyn Ward/U.S. Air Force via AP)-Trump ordered a drone strike on January 3 this year to kill Soleimani near Baghdad’s international airport.Days later, Iran launched a volley of missiles at Iraqi bases housing US and other coalition troops, with Trump refraining from any further military response.“Iran doesn’t seek war but will OPENLY & DIRECTLY defend its people, security & vital interests,” Zarif said.Instead of fighting Covid in US, @realDonaldTrump & cohorts waste billions to fly B52s & send armadas to OUR region-Intelligence from Iraq indicate plot to FABRICATE pretext for war.Iran doesn't seek war but will OPENLY & DIRECTLY defend its people, security & vital interests.— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) December 31, 2020-Trump said last week said he would hold Iran “responsible” for any fatal attack on Americans in Iraq after accusing Tehran of being behind a rocket strike on the US embassy in Baghdad on December 20.Zarif at the time warned the US president against any “adventurism” before leaving the White House on January 20, and said, “putting your own citizens at risk abroad won’t divert attention from catastrophic failures at home.”US President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the White House on the ballistic missile strike that Iran launched against Iraqi air bases housing US troops, January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)-The US embassy in Iraq and other foreign military and diplomatic sites have been targeted by dozens of rockets and roadside bomb attacks since later 2019.Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from a landmark nuclear deal with Iran and world powers in 2018 and launched a “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran, reimposing and reinforcing crippling sanctions.The two countries have twice come to the brink of war since June 2019, especially following the killing of Soleimani.Tensions with Iran further escalated with the killing in November of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, an Iranian scientist named by the West as the leader of the Islamic Republic’s disbanded military nuclear program. Iran has blamed Israel for the killing, but US officials are concerned that any Iranian retaliation could hit US interests.
ELECTORAL VOTES MON DEC 14, 2020
2020 PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP 271 ELECTORAL VOTES.(AFTER ALL THE LIBERAL STALLING,CRYING AND THERAPY GETTING ALREADY. AND TRUMP IS NOT DECLARED WINNER YET) (D6 USA ELECTION) SUN NOV 08,20
The United States of America is a federal republic[1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands.[2][3] The 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C., are in North America between Canada and Mexico, while Alaska is in the far northwestern part of North America and Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. Territories of the United States are scattered throughout the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.States possess a number of powers and rights under the United States Constitution, such as regulating intrastate commerce, running elections, creating local governments, and ratifying constitutional amendments. Each state has its own constitution, grounded in republican principles, and government, consisting of three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial.[4] All states and their residents are represented in the federal Congress, a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each state is represented by two senators, while representatives are distributed among the states in proportion to the most recent constitutionally mandated decennial census.[5] Additionally, each state is entitled to select a number of electors to vote in the Electoral College, the body that elects the president of the United States, equal to the total of representatives and senators in Congress from that state.[6] Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1 of the Constitution grants to Congress the authority to admit new states into the Union. Since the establishment of the United States in 1776, the number of states has expanded from the original 13 to the current total of 50, and each new state is admitted on an equal footing with the existing states.[7] As provided by Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, Congress exercises "exclusive jurisdiction" over the federal district, which is not part of any state. Prior to passage of the 1973 District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which devolved certain Congressional powers to an elected mayor and council, the district did not have an elected local government. Even so, Congress retains the right to review and overturn laws created by the council and intervene in local affairs.[8] As it is not a state, the district does not have representation in the Senate. However, since 1971, its residents have been represented in the House of Representatives by a non-voting delegate.[9] Additionally, since 1961, following ratification of the 23rd Amendment, the district has been entitled to select three electors to vote in the Electoral College.
Number of electoral votes for each state
ECR ALABAMA 09 PR TRUMP 09 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 09 HARRIS 00
EDR Alabama - 9 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP - TRUMP 232 - 538 - BIDEN 306 - 538
ECR ALASKA 03 PR TRUMP 03 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 03 HARRIS 00
EDR Alaska - 3 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP - TRUMP 223 - 529 - BIDEN 306 - 529
ECR ARIZONA 11 PR BIDEN 11 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 11 TRUMP 00
EDR Arizona - 11 electoral votes - BIDEN - BIDEN 306 - 526 - TRUMP 220 - 526
ECR ARKANSAS 06 PR TRUMP 06 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 06 HARRIS 00
EDR Arkansas - 6 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP - TRUMP 220 - 515 - BIDEN 295 - 515
ECR CALIFORNIA 55 PR BIDEN 55 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 55 PENCE 00
EDR California - 55 electoral votes - BIDEN - BIDEN 295 - 509 - TRUMP 214 - 509
ECR COLORADO 09 PR BIDEN 09 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 09 PENCE 00
EDR Colorado - 9 electoral votes - BIDEN - BIDEN 240 - 454 - TRUMP 214 - 454
ECR CONNECTICUT 07 PR BIDEN 07 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 07 PENCE 00
EDR Connecticut - 7 electoral votes - BIDEN - BIDEN 231 - 445 - TRUMP 214 - 445
ECR DELAWARE 03 PR BIDEN 03 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 03 PENCE 00
EDR Delaware - 3 electoral votes - BIDEN - BIDEN 224 - 438 - TRUMP 214 - 438
ECR DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 03 PR BIDEN 03 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 03 PENCE 00
EDR District of Columbia - 3 electoral votes - BIDEN - BIDEN 221 - 435 - TRUMP 214 - 435
ECR FLORIDA 29 PR TRUMP 29 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 29 HARRIS 00
EDR Florida - 29 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP - TRUMP 214 - 432 - BIDEN 218 - 432
ECR GEORGIA 16 PR BIDEN 16 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 16 PENCE 00
EDR Georgia - 16 electoral votes - BIDEN - BIDEN 218 - 403 - TRUMP 185 - 403
ECR HAWAII 04 PR BIDEN 04 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 04 PENCE 00
EDR Hawaii - 4 electoral votes - BIDEN - BIDEN 202 - 387 - TRUMP 185 - 387
ECR IDAHO 04 PR TRUMP 04 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 04 HARRIS 00
EDR Idaho - 4 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP - TRUMP 185 - 383 - BIDEN 198 - 383
ECR ILLINOIS 20 PR BIDEN 20 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 20 PENCE 00
EDR Illinois - 20 electoral votes - BIDEN - BIDEN 198 - 379 - TRUMP 181 - 379
ECR INDIANA 11 PR TRUMP 11 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 11 BIDEN 00
EDR Indiana - 11 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP - TRUMP 181 - 359 - BIDEN 178 - 359
ECR IOWA 06 PR TRUMP 06 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 06 HARRIS 00
EDR Iowa - 6 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP - TRUMP 170 - 348 - BIDEN 178 - 348
ECR KANSAS 06 PR TRUMP 06 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 06 HARRIS 00
EDR Kansas - 6 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP - TRUMP 164 - 342 - BIDEN 178 - 342
ECR KENTUCKY 08 PR TRUMP 08 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 08 HARRIS 00
EDR Kentucky - 8 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP - TRUMP 158 - 336 - BIDEN 178 - 336
ECR LOUISIANA 08 PR TRUMP 08 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 08 HARRIS 00
EDR Louisiana - 8 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP - TRUMP 150 - 328 - BIDEN 178 - 328
ECR MAINE 04 PR BIDEN 03 TRUMP 01 - VP HARRIS 03 PENCE 01
EDR Maine - 4 electoral votes - BIDEN - 3,TRUMP 01 - BIDEN - BIDEN 178 - 320 - TRUMP 142 - 320
ECR MARYLAND 10 PR BIDEN 10 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 10 PENCE 00
EDR Maryland - 10 electoral votes - BIDEN - BIDEN 175 - 316 - TRUMP 141 - 316
ECR MASSACHUSETTS 11 PR BIDEN 11 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 11 PENCE 00
EDR Massachusetts - 11 electoral votes - BIDEN - BIDEN 165 - 306 - TRUMP 141 - 306
ECR MICHIGAN 16 PR BIDEN 16 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 16 PENCE 00
EDR Michigan - 16 electoral votes - BIDEN - BIDEN 154 - 295 - TRUMP 141 - 295
ECR MINNESOTA 10 PR BIDEN 10 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 10 PENCE 00
EDR Minnesota - 10 electoral votes - BIDEN - BIDEN 138 - 279 - TRUMP 141 - 279
ECR MISSISSIPPI 06 PR TRUMP 06 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 06 HARRIS 00
EDR Mississippi - 6 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP - TRUMP 141 - 269 - BIDEN 128 - 269
ECR MISSOURI 10 PR TRUMP 10 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 10 HARRIS 00
EDR Missouri - 10 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP - TRUMP 135 - 263 - BIDEN 128 - 263
ECR MONTANA 03 PR TRUMP 03 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 03 HARRIS 00
EDR Montana - 3 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP - TRUMP 125 - 253 - BIDEN 128 - 253
ECR NEBRASKA 05 PR TRUMP 03 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 03 HARRIS 00
EDR Nebraska - 5 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP 03,BIDEN 00 - TRUMP 121 - 250 - BIDEN 127 - 250
ECR NEVADA 06 PR BIDEN 06 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 06 PENCE 00
EDR Nevada - 6 electoral votes - BIDEN - BIDEN 127 - 245 TRUMP 118 - 245
ECR NEW HAMPSHIRE 04 PR BIDEN 04 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 04 PENCE 00
EDR New Hampshire - 4 electoral votes - BIDEN - BIDEN 121 - 239 - TRUMP 118 - 239
ECR NEW JERSEY 14 PR BIDEN 14 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 14 PENCE 00
EDR New Jersey - 14 electoral votes - BIDEN - BIDEN 117 - 235 - TRUMP 118 - 235
ECR NEW MEXICO - 05 PR BIDEN 05 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 05 PENCE 00
EDR New Mexico - 5 electoral votes - BIDEN - BIDEN 103 - 221 - TRUMP 118 - 221
ECR NEW YORK 29 PR BIDEN 29 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 29 PENCE 00
EDR New York - 29 electoral votes - BIDEN - BIDEN 98 - 216 - TRUMP 118 - 216
ECR NORTH CAROLINA 15 PR TRUMP 15 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 15 HARRIS 00
EDR North Carolina - 15 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP - TRUMP 118 - 187 - BIDEN - 69 - 187
ECR NORTH DAKOTA 03 PR TRUMP 03 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 03 HARRIS 00
EDR North Dakota - 3 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP - TRUMP 103 - 172 - BIDEN - 69 - 172
ECR OHIO 18 PR TRUMP 18 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 18 HARRIS 00
EDR Ohio - 18 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP - TRUMP 100 - 169 - BIDEN 69 - 169
ECR OKLAHOMA 07 PR TRUMP 07 BIDEN 00 - PENCE 07 HARRIS 00
EDR Oklahoma - 7 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP - 82 - 151 - BIDEN 69 - 151
ECR OREGON 07 PR BIDEN 07 TRUMP 00 - HARRIS 07 PENCE 00
EDR Oregon - 7 electoral votes - BIDEN - 69 - 144 - TRUMP 75 - 144
ECR PENNSYLVANIA - 20 PR BIDEN 20 - TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 20 PENCE 00
EDR Pennsylvania - 20 electoral votes - BIDEN 62 - 137 - TRUMP 75 - 137
ECR RHODE ISLAND - 04 PR BIDEN 04 - TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 04 PENCE 00
EDR Rhode Island - 4 electoral votes - BIDEN 42 - 117 - TRUMP 75 - 117
ECR SOUTH CAROLINA 09 PR TRUMP 09 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 09 BIDEN 00
EDR South Carolina - 9 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP-75 - 113 - BIDEN 38 - 113
ECR SOUTH DAKOTA 03 PR TRUMP 03 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 03 BIDEN 00
EDR South Dakota - 3 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP-66 - 104 - BIDEN 38 - 104
ECR TENNESSEE 11 - PR TRUMP 11 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 11 HARRIS 00 (02)
EDR Tennessee - 11 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP-63 - 101 - BIDEN 38 - 101
ECR TEXAS 38 - 38 PR TRUMP 38 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 38 HARRIS 00
EDR Texas - 38 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP-52 - 90 BIDEN 38 -90
ECR UTAH 06 PR TRUMP 06 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 06 HARRIS 00
EDR Utah - 6 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP-TRUMP 14 - 52 - BIDEN 38 - 52
ECR VERMONT 03 - PR BIDEN 03 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 03 PENCE 00 (01)
EDR Vermont - 3 electoral votes - BIDEN-38 - 46 - TRUMP 08 - 46
ECR VIRGINIA 13 - PR BIDEN 13 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 13 PENCE 00
EDR Virginia - 13 electoral votes - BIDEN-35 - 43 - TRUMP 08 - 43
ECR WASHINGTON 12 PR BIDEN 12 TRUMP 00 - VP HARRIS 12 PENCE 00
EDR Washington - 12 electoral votes - BIDEN-22 - 30 TRUMP 08 - 30
ECR WEST VIRGINIA 05 PR TRUMP 05 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 05 HARRIS 00
EDR West Virginia - 5 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP -08 - 18 - BIDEN - 10 - 18
ECR WISCONSIN 10 PR TRUMP 10 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 10 BIDEN 00
EDR Wisconsin - 10 electoral votes - BIDEN-10 - 13 - TRUMP 03 - 13
ECR WYOMING 03 PR TRUMP 03 BIDEN 00 - VP PENCE 03 HARRIS 00
EDR Wyoming - 3 electoral votes - DONALD TRUMP-03 - 03 - BIDEN 00 - 00
EDR - ELECTION DAY RESULTS
ECR - ELECTORAL COLLEGE RESULTS
( ) - ORDER OF COLLEGE VOTES
