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Joe Biden arrives at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware for a campaign briefing
Donald Trump claimed that the election is “rigged” as Joe Biden closed the gap in Georgia as the final tally hits the wire before the final result. With 18,936 ballots to count, Trump leads by 3,486 votes.
As a statement on the undecided status looms, Trump redoubled his claims of voter fraud as the US presidential election appears to be slipping out of his hands.
The Trump campaign has provided no evidence for its unsubstantiated claims that absentee ballots were cast fraudulently. States like Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania have taken longer to call because of absentee ballots, but that’s simply because workers take longer to count those votes, not because of “voter fraud.”
With absentee ballots taking longer to count than in-person ballots, it appeared that Trump had a strong advantage in states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia. But Americans who voted by mail tend to lean toward Democratic candidate Joe Biden, with those states turning back to the candidate as they enter.
Lindsey Graham echoes Trump’s fraud accusations
The independent Griffin Connolly has more on Lindsey Graham’s interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity.
Graham echoed the Trump campaign’s unsubstantiated claims that the US elections have been compromised by voter fraud, claims for which the president’s team has not provided any concrete evidence … But Hannity and Graham took the Democrats’ decision to appeal the GOP lawsuit as evidence that the city was somehow covering up voter fraud.
Justin vallejo6 November 2020 03:09
See: Lindsey Graham Doesn’t Rule Out Republican Legislatures Overriding Election Results
Lindsey Graham avoided a harsh response to Fox News’ Sean Hannity when asked if lawmakers should invalidate the election.
“I think everything should be on the table,” Graham said. “So there is the process of observing an election that is being violated, the Philiidelphia elections are twisted like a snake, why are they excluding the people? Because they don’t want people to see what they’re doing. ”
Lindsey Graham does not rule out that Republican legislatures invalidate election results
Justin vallejo6 November 2020 03:02
‘No one is surprised’: Trump Jr criticizes Lindsey Graham for not echoing unfounded claims of voter fraud
As family members and Donald Trump loyalists scatter across the country with savage and unfounded allegations of voter fraud and a rigged recount, many key Republicans have kept quiet.
In response to a post by Jack Posobiec, the far-right activist and internet troll, saying, “Not a tweet from @LindseyGrahamSC in 24 hours,” the president’s eldest son wrote: “No one is surprised.”
Republicans who won re-election, like Senator Graham, have been accused by Trump supporters of using their popularity to regain their seats and then abandoning the president.
Oliver O’Connell Reports.
Justin vallejo6 November 2020 01:51
BREAK: Biden’s lead in Arizona falls with 90% of votes counted
While the vote count on the east coast of the US is seeing mail-in ballots eat away at Donald Trump’s leadership in Pennsylvania and Georgia in the west, a new results release in Arizona has seen the Joe Biden’s leadership.
With 90 percent of the ballots counted at 9 p.m. ET Thursday, the former vice president leads Trump by 46,257 votes in the state.
Its percentage advantage has fallen from 2% to just 1.6%.
Biden currently has 1,528,319 votes to Trump’s 1,482,062.
In the latest stretch of published results, 56 percent went to President Trump (42,276 votes) and 42 percent to Biden (31,700 votes).
The independent Oliver O’Connell is following the unfolding story.
Justin vallejo6 November 2020 02:55
Trump leads Georgia to 1,902 votes
This comes from the latest Decision Desk HQ update, with 99 percent of the votes counted.
As of 8:40 p.m., there were still 16,105 votes left to count according to the latest update from the Georgia Secretary of State, but that number has likely dropped in the last hour.
Justin vallejo6 November 2020 02:51
Trump asks why mail ballots go against him
In his first remarks before the chamber two days after Election Day, Donald Trump returned to the White House with a 17-minute rule amplifying false claims about mail-in ballots and voter fraud, while Poll workers in the US continue to process thousands of votes and their advantage in a handful of swing states.
The president has attacked mail-in ballots in recent months as election officials expanded voting options in several states during the coronavirus pandemic to avoid crowded in-person voting.
“If you count the legal votes, I win easily,” he told reporters Thursday.
Justin vallejo6 November 2020 01:52
Watch: ‘Down a Little’ Trump Dances Saying He Could Lose in Georgia
As Georgia’s count draws to a close, Trump held a press conference to lament the mail-in votes that cut his 300,000 lead.
“And by the way, it came down and now it’s getting to a point where I’ll go from winning by a lot to, maybe even being a little bit down,” Trump said.
With 18,936 ballots to count, Trump leads by 3,486 votes.
Trump refuses to say ‘lose’ when talking about diminishing his lead in Georgia
Justin vallejo6 November 2020 02:06
Trump finally addressed the nation to let us all know that he believes he is lost.
This was Trump, but not like we’ve seen him before, he writes The independent Holly Baxter.
Well, he finally came out of his bunker to address the nation: Donald J. Trump, the madman of the moment. But the person on the podium at the White House tonight was a mere shadow of her screaming, singing and gathering self.
Justin vallejo6 November 2020 01:34
Pennsylvania ballots will be counted by Friday, Secretary of State
Kathy Boockvar said the count is ahead of schedule and the “overwhelming majority” would be complete by Friday.
Trump has a 76,737 ballot advantage in Pennsylvania, with 95 percent of the votes counted and more than 250,000 mail-in ballots pending (as of 7:30 p.m. EST).
“I still think that we are ahead of schedule and, in fact, we have already counted the vast majority of the ballots. But because it is a close race, it is not yet very clear who the winner is, ”said Ms Boockvar.
Justin vallejo6 November 2020 01:46
Trump World begins threatening the Republican Party as the party leadership is silent as the president’s defeat appears imminent
While Donald Trump held a press conference to threaten litigation over the impending election results, the rest of the Republican leadership has remained silent.
Donald Trump Jr. said the silence would make the 2024 Republican primary “much easier” while he was a campaign manager.
“The total inaction of virtually all ‘2024 GOP hopefuls’ is quite surprising,” he said.
“They have a perfect platform to show that they are willing and capable of fighting, but instead they will cower from the media mafia.”
Meanwhile, former campaign manager Brad Parscale said Republicans should start talking now if they want to win in 2024.
Justin vallejo6 November 2020 01:42
