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US Elections: Joe Biden Projected To Be 46th US President

How Will 2020 US Election Results Impact Foreign Policy?

How will a Trump or a Biden presidency impact the world & US Foreign Policy? How will India be placed with either administrations? Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, Foreign Editor, Hindustan Times, speaks with BOOM's H R Venkatesh.

BOOM Speaks To PolitiFact's Louis Jacobson On US Election Results And Fake News Regarding Polling

How rampant has fake news been on voting day in United States Elections 2020? Will it affect swing states and ultimately, the elections? Politifact's Louis Jacobson speaks with BOOM's H R Venkatesh on results thus far and misinformation in the last 24 hours of the election.

False Claims Around Voting In Pennsylvania Go Viral As Votes Are Cast

Social media is rife with claims alleging that a poll worker tossed more than 100 ballots cast for President Donald Trump in Erie County, Pennsylvania. Elections officials in the county have now debunked this claim.

Old Antifa Flyer Goes Viral With Misleading Claims

A blog post is being widely shared to claim that an “Antifa flyer” shows left-wing activists planning to masquerade as supporters of President Donald Trump and riot following the election. Fact checkers at FactCheck.org found these claims to be false - the purported flyer cited as evidence for these claims has been around since 2017.

This morning, CNN projected the victory of Republican business woman Marjorie Taylor Greene on her race to represent the north-west Georgia seat in the House. Taylor's win comes despite criticism of her promotion of a conspiracy theory called the QAnon which claims that the world is overrun by a cabal of child trafficking 'paedophiles', with Donald Trump being the last line of defence against them.

Read more about the outlandish and debunked claims of the QAnon theory, and why its rising popularity is a cause of concern.

Proponents of the #QAnon theory argue that Hollywood elites like #TomHanks are secretly harvesting adrenochrome (a psychoactive compound extracted from adrenaline) from the blood of children - a claim which has its root in age-old anti-Semitism. #FakeNewshttps://t.co/L0XuHlRVAi

— BOOM Live (@boomlive_in) October 10, 2020

As of Wednesday morning, Biden is ahead of Trump in electoral votes, while Trump takes lead in popular vote.

To know more about how the electoral system works, do check out our story on complicated process that decides the United States president.

US voters elect their president and vice-president indirectly through a process called the #ElectoralCollege (EC), even through their presidential elections may seem like a directly elected personality race. Read what this is about here. #USElection2020 https://t.co/p5syDND1Xd

— BOOM Live (@boomlive_in) October 24, 2020

270 - the magic number that Democrats & Republicans are aiming for. What does this mean and what are battleground states? Watch BOOM's H R Venkatesh, Archis Chowdhury & Mohammed Kudrati to understand how the electoral college works.

More than 97 mn people have already voted in the United States of America. Will everyone's vote be counted? Watch BOOM's H R Venkatesh, Archis Chowdhury & Mohammed Kudrati to understand the vote counting process from different kinds of voting options in American elections.

Will polls predict the correct outcome of the American elections this time or will the silent voter change outcomes? Watch BOOM's H R Venkatesh explain a polarized & important election here with Yashwant Deshmukh, Founder Editor of CVOTER.