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On Friday, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, accused again that the “illegal votes” would be counted after the presidential elections. From the beginning he said that only “legal votes” should be considered for the result. “But we have met with opposition from Democrats on this fundamental principle,” Trump said in a written statement.
Since election night, Trump has repeatedly claimed voter fraud without providing evidence. Now the president has announced again that he will use all legal means. Addressing the American people, he added, “I will never stop fighting for you and our nation.”
Trump’s chances of remaining in office have plummeted. Democrat Joe Biden leads the way in four of the five contested states that haven’t finished counting votes. A victory in Pennsylvania would be enough for the challenger to win the election.
On Friday, the head of the legal department for Trump’s campaign team, Matt Morgan, said: “This election is not over.” Biden’s predictions of election victories in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona are based on results that are far from complete. “Once the elections are over, President Trump will be re-elected.”
Trump’s son, Donald Junior, had already asked his father on Thursday to start a “total war” around the elections. The president must “expose all fraud and cheating.” This included the votes of voters who were dead or no longer living in the respective state, Trump’s son claimed. “It’s time to clean up this mess and stop looking like a banana republic.”
Republican Senator Mitt Romney, who lost to Barack Obama in the 2012 White House race, harshly criticized Trump for the fraud allegations. The president is wrong “when he says that the election was false, flawed and stolen.” Such a claim damages “the cause of freedom here and around the world.”
Republican Senator Ben Sasse called on Twitter to ignore the “overheated rhetoric,” to wait for the vote to be counted and to trust the rule of law.
The CNN television station reported, referring to anonymous sources in the White House, that high-ranking officials were distancing themselves from Trump in the face of the expected defeat. “It’s over,” said an adviser to the president. Another adviser said Trump was internally isolated due to the fraud allegations.
