Trump does not want to acknowledge Biden’s election victory

Ahen the US media decides to declare Joe Biden the winner of the US presidential election after a long game of suspense, Donald Trump finds himself on a golf course in Virginia. The tremendous game lasted days after Tuesday’s choice of fate and the ongoing vote count. On Saturday morning (local time), the television station CNN was finally the first to name Biden as the winner in Pennsylvania, and thus also the winner of the election. The US news agency AP sent a top priority flash message at 11:31 AM local time (17:31 CET) with the headline: “Democrat Joe Biden Defeats President Donald Trump and Becomes 46th President of the United States United”.

Meanwhile, the incumbent president was on the golf course in Virginia. However, shortly after the announcement, Trump announced in a statement that he would not accept the result announced by the media. “We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to pose as a winner and why his media allies are doing everything they can to help him: they don’t want the truth exposed. The simple fact is that this election is far from over, ”said the president’s statement.

In the United States, it is customary for presidential elections to be decided based on the forecasts of the mainstream media, usually on election night. Official results sometimes come much later. Due to the corona pandemic, millions of Americans had voted by letter this year, so the vote count took longer. The American president is only indirectly elected by the people. The votes of the electors decide the composition of the electoral college, which then elects the president in December. A candidate needs a majority of the 538 electorate to win.

Biden has not been formally confirmed a winner in any state, Trump said. There will be recounts, especially in contested states, and your campaign team has “presented valid and lawful legal challenges. In fact, there may be a tally of votes cast in Georgia, as Trump and Biden are separated by less than 0.5 percentage points there. In this case, state election law requires a recount. However, not all the votes have yet been counted. Starting Monday, Trump’s campaign team will also begin taking legal action against the charges.

Trump and his team mostly complain that election observers stayed away from the counting room and that some illegal ballots were cast. However, the president did not provide any evidence for any of the accusations. CNN correspondent Jim Acosta reported Saturday that advisers also rate Trump’s chances of changing the election outcome through legal channels as low. In the weeks leading up to the election, the president had already described voting by mail, which was given special importance this year due to the crown pandemic and which was used primarily by Democrats, as prone to fraud and illegal.