TT analyst: Biden has best pathway to presidency

DEMOCRATIC candidate Joe Biden was ahead in the US presidential elections at 6 pm on Wednesday but the race was still very tight with a possibility for President Donald Trump to pull off a win, said Dr Anthony Gonzales, former head of the Institute for International Relations at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine.

“It is so close it is still very difficult to say who would come out on top.

“It’s hard to say. My sense is that Biden has a very, very good chance. Biden has the best chance to pull it off.”

However, he said he would not bet money on the election.

Gonzales said Biden was leading in Arizona, and also by a small margin in Nevada, both which he needed to win, to enter the White House.

“Also, he could win Georgia still.

“He has alternative paths to 270 votes in the Electoral College.”

Gonzales said projections for the result were being made by analysts based on the voting history of various counties plus the number of votes to be counted.

“People are saying Biden has the best pathways to 270. I tend to subscribe to that. Trump’s pathways are very limited in terms of the possibilities.”

Asked about Biden’s speech at about 5 pm on Wednesday, Gonzales said Biden had called for every vote to be counted, even as Trump had said to stop counting votes and declare him winner.

Asked about the call for conciliation in Biden’s speech, Gonzales said that has always been the former vice president’s theme. Gonzales said the US is fragmented and could prove to be very unstable.

“Biden says he can bring it back together and talks of the soul of the nation and that he is the one to restore it. Trump doesn’t unify the nation.”