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Live coverage of Trump’s event was cut by several major American television networks, and there were signs of cracks in Republican support.
Representative Will Hurd called Trump’s call to halt the vote count “dangerous and incorrect” and said it “undermines the very foundation on which this nation was built.”
And the mighty media empire of conservative Rupert Murdoch seemed to change tune, with his New York Post calling Trump’s fraud allegations “unfounded” and Fox News rejecting Republican pressure to rescind its projection that Trump would lose Arizona, vital to his possibilities.
Trump’s spiel came as results from yet to be declared states across the country showed Biden had a winning streak.
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The 77-year-old Biden was just one or, at most, two states on the battlefield from getting a majority to take the White House. Trump, 74, needed an increasingly unlikely combination of victories in various states to stay in power.
Biden, who has vowed to heal a country battered by Trump’s four extraordinarily polarizing years in power, called for “the people to remain calm.”
“We have no doubt that when the count is over, Senator (Kamala) Harris and I will be declared winners,” he told reporters in his hometown of Wilmington.
“The process is working,” he said. “The count is being completed. And we will know soon.”
– All about Pennsylvania? –
In Georgia, a generally Republican state, Trump had a slim and rapidly disappearing lead of less than 1,900 votes.
In Arizona and Nevada, Biden kept few leads. If Biden wins both states, he would also win the presidency.
But the biggest piece of the puzzle was Pennsylvania, where Trump’s head start was again steadily depleted as election officials focused on processing mail-in ballots, which are typically cast by Biden supporters.
The Democratic candidate currently has 253 of the 538 electoral college votes distributed among the 50 states of the country. It has 264 with the inclusion of Arizona, which Fox News and the Associated Press have called in its favor, but other major organizations have not.
If Biden took Pennsylvania, he would get 20 more votes from the electoral college, instantly surpassing the 270 needed for overall victory.
The latest results showed that Trump’s lead in the state had shrunk to around 42,000 votes, and most of the votes yet to be counted come from the Democratic stronghold of Philadelphia.
– Protests across the country –
The Trump campaign continued to insist that the president has a way of winning, citing pockets of Republican support that have yet to be counted.
But Trump’s overwhelming focus was claiming, without evidence, that he was the victim of massive fraud.
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Trump prematurely declared victory on Wednesday and threatened to request the Supreme Court to intervene to stop the vote counting, but he has nonetheless continued.
Since then, his team has fanned out across the battlefield states challenging the results in court, and his supporters converged outside the electoral offices in various cities.
In Las Vegas, red-hatted Trump supporters from “Make America Great Again” demanded that the ballots be processed.
Brando Madrigal said he wanted to verify that the votes “do not come from people who died with Covid, people who are out of the state, people who do not have the possibility to vote because they do not have the papers.”
But while Trump demanded that the count be stopped in Georgia and Pennsylvania, where he leads, his supporters and his campaign insisted that he continue in Arizona and Nevada, where he lags behind.
Bob Bauer, a lawyer for Biden’s campaign, dismissed the large number of lawsuits as “without merit.”
“All of this is meant to create a big cloud,” Bauer said. “But it is not a very thick cloud. We see through it. Also the courts and election officials.”
