Donald Trump has repeatedly made unfounded claims of fraud within the election.
Donald Trump, refusing to concede defeat within the US presidential election, stated Saturday that Joe Biden was “dashing to falsely pose because the winner” after tv networks declared the Democrat’s victory.
“Everyone knows why Joe Biden is dashing to falsely pose because the winner, and why his media allies try so onerous to assist him: they do not need the reality to be uncovered,” Trump stated.
“The easy truth is that this election is way from over.”
Trump underlined that states had not but licensed the outcomes, and his marketing campaign has launched a number of “reliable authorized challenges that might decide the last word victor.”
Nonetheless, near-complete outcomes issued by every state confirmed an insurmountable lead for Biden, permitting information networks to name the general end result, as they do each election.
With networks calling pivotal Pennsylvania after which Nevada for Biden on Saturday, he’s now projected to win no less than 279 electoral votes, surpassing the magic variety of 270 wanted to win in America’s Electoral Faculty system that formally chooses the president.
Trump claimed that in Pennsylvania, Republican ballot observers weren’t permitted “significant entry to look at the counting course of.”
“Solely a celebration engaged in wrongdoing would unlawfully maintain observers out of the rely room — after which battle in court docket to dam their entry,” Trump added.
The president’s defiant assertion landed as he arrived at a golf course he owns in Virginia, in his first journey exterior the White Home since Election Day on Tuesday.
His lawyer Rudy Giuliani was in Philadelphia on Saturday the place he stated Trump would maintain urgent the case to have such complaints — notably in key battleground Pennsylvania — addressed by US courts.
“Clearly he isn’t going to concede when no less than 600,000 ballots are in query,” Giuliani instructed reporters.
Requested for particular proof of fraudulent ballots, Giuliani offered none. “How can I presumably inform you there’s fraud or no fraud?” he stated, though he pointed repeatedly to observers being denied adequate entry to watch poll counting in Philadelphia.
“They stored our inspectors away.”
No proof of election malfeasance has emerged, though complaints have been filed in a number of states, notably about inadequate entry to observing the vote counts.
A number of congressional Republicans stood firmly behind the president, together with Senator Lindsey Graham who insisted that “credible allegations of voting irregularities and misconduct” be taken severely and investigated, not “swept underneath the rug.”
“Election outcomes aren’t decided by media retailers however licensed, correct vote counts,” he stated, including that “officers in Pennsylvania ought to take allegations… severely earlier than certifying a last end result.”
Biden is scheduled to handle the nation at 8:00 pm Saturday (0100 GMT).
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