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US President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that he had won the US election, despite final results yet to be released, and said he would go to the Supreme Court to dispute the vote count.
LIVE | 2020 US Elections: Trump Says He Will Go To The US Supreme Court And Demand Voting Stop
“We won this election,” Trump said in an extraordinary speech from the ceremonial East Room of the White House. “This is a fraud on the American public.”
The Republican, who according to initial results is in a melee race with Democrat Joe Biden, said he would go to court and “we want the voting to stop.”
It seemed to mean stopping the counting of mail-in ballots that can be legally accepted by state boards of elections after Tuesday’s election, provided they are mailed on time.
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