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US President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused the Democrats of “trying to steal” the election and described the provisional results as a “great victory” that could lead to his re-election.
“We have a huge advantage, but they are trying to steal the elections. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast once the polls close!”Trump wrote on his Twitter account, without providing evidence of his accusation. The president made his tweet just after his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, gave a short speech from Wilmington (Delaware) and declared that the contest will not be over “until every vote is counted.”
Twitter immediately tagged Trump’s tweet with a comment stating that “part or all of the content” of the message “is disputed and could lead to misunderstandings about an election or other civic process.” Trump’s reelection campaign has aggressively questioned the procedures in place in some key states, such as Pennsylvania, for accepting and counting those mail-in votes that arrive after Election Day – that is, this Tuesday.
“We will go to the Supreme Court”
Later, from the White House, Trump followed the same line: “This is a fraud on the American people. We were preparing to win this election. Frankly, we have won this election.”
“We will go to the Supreme Court. We want the entire voting process to stop. We do not want them to find ballots at four in the morning and add them to the disaster,” the president stressed
The president and his campaign have paved the way for possible trials for months, by sowing distrust in the vote by mail – despite the fact that there is no evidence that it can lead to widespread fraud – and insisting that the result that should count it is the one of the electoral night.
When Trump spoke, he was guaranteed only 213 delegates of the 270 he needs in the Electoral College to achieve a second term, compared to the 224 that Biden accumulated.
Key states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin warned they would need more hours and even days to count all votes, due in part to increased mail-in voting volume in the wake of the pandemic.
The election result is expected to be tight and pass through the same three states that gave Trump the White House by a very narrow margin in 2016: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
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