LONDON — An indecisive American presidential election hurtling toward legal challenges transfixed the world on Wednesday, with viewers in Europe, Asia and elsewhere riveted by the pitched battle between President Trump and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and appalled by Mr. Trump’s demand to stop counting votes. “Trump-Biden: The United States is tearing itself apart,” the newspaper Le Monde said in a front-page headline, summarizing French coverage of the election that has often depicted a country coming apart at the seams. “OK, America, so what the hell happens now?” wrote Marina Hyde, a columnist for The Guardian, Britain’s main left-leaning newspaper. She answered her own question by venturing, “Rule nothing out, except maybe optimism.”By Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Biden predicted “we will be the winners” but stopped short of declaring victory. Mr. Trump vowed legal challenges to what he cast as fraudulent Democratic votes.

Source: International New York Times November 04, 2020 08:30 UTC