US presidential election: Trump almost certainly won’t admit defeat if knocked out

If “legitimate” votes are counted, he won the election, US President Donald Trump said at a press conference at the White House Thursday night, but his words are being questioned by experts and the media. , not to mention official statistics. As he said: the fact that the vote count is still ongoing, assesses that they are preparing for electoral fraud. “If only valid votes are counted, I get an easy victory,” he said. Without mentioning specific examples and evidence, he noted that there were a series of shameful irregularities in elections across the country. “If illegally cast votes are taken into account, if late votes are also reported, it means that they are trying to cheat the election,” he emphasized, as if he had no idea how to count the votes by letter. He acknowledged that in Georgia and Pennsylvania, his lead was significantly reduced during the vote count. Anyway, more and more Republicans are backtracking behind Trump, who are talking about counting every vote cast because that’s the only democratic path. Paul Mitchell, a Republican congressman from Michigan, said that all legitimate votes should be counted as usual.

Donald Trump has expected Republicans to file lawsuits and debates about the fairness of the elections are likely to reach the Federal Constitutional Court.

Incidentally, Trump and the Republican Party had already filed lawsuits in three member states, and the Philadelphia County Elections Commission was sued separately because it did not allow Republican observers to be present at the vote count. In Michigan and Georgia, the justices almost immediately refused to accept the lawsuits, but in Pennsylvania, Trump’s legal team won because it allowed Republican staff to be present as an observer in the counting of votes in relevant election commissions. However, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who was portrayed in the US press as a Democratic party, said in an interview with CNN television that Trump’s campaign demands were “political documents rather than legal.”

Bill Stepien, Trump’s campaign manager, told reporters ahead of the evening’s press conference that he would call for a full vote recount in Wisconsin. Speaking about the also controversial Nevada election, Jason Miller, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, said “we will literally consider every vote.” Miller said it will be clear by Friday that Donald Trump will continue as president of the United States for the next four years. On Thursday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden also predicted his own victory. “There is no question that when the vote count is complete, Senator Harris (vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris) and I will be declared winners,” Biden said in a brief statement. However, he refrained from calling himself a winner. Biden asked the Americans to be patient. “Democracy is sometimes chaotic and sometimes requires a little patience. But this patience has been crowned with success for more than 240 years,” he said.

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