On Friday, US President Donald Trump alleged that Democrats sabotaged the electoral process and blamed “Big Media, Big Money and Big Tech” for coming to their aid.
He attacked the electoral process claiming that the counting process was aimed at diminishing his advantage in battle states. He also blamed poll workers without evidence and said they were secretly supporting Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
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“Suppression. There are few states yet to be decided in the presidential race. The voting apparatus is run by Democrats in these states. In fact, we were winning a lot in those key places and then our numbers were miraculously misled in secret,” he said accusing Democrats participate in voter suppression.
Here are the top updates for the 2020 US Presidential Election:
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and several other US states saw supporters of Biden and Trump protesting against each other over the vote count issue. Trump supporters gathered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania chanted ‘Stop the Steal’ while Biden supporters gathered in Philadelphia were heard demanding that ‘Every vote be counted.’
• Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes), Georgia (16 electoral votes), North Carolina (15 electoral votes), Arizona (11 electoral votes) and Nevada (6 electoral votes) are expected to announce the final vote count. Donald Trump leads in North Carolina, but his lead has fallen in Georgia, according to the New York Times.
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• Several news networks such as ABC, CBS and NBC cut the speech of the President of the United States on Thursday night and only Fox News and CNN carried the entire speech. NBC’s Lester Holt interrupted the White House broadcast, saying: “We have to interrupt here, because the president has made a number of false statements, including the idea that there have been fraudulent votes. There has been no evidence of that. “
• Pennsylvania Commonwealth Secretary Kathy Boockvar said, “The closer the race, the longer it takes,” reversing her earlier statement that Pennsylvania could declare the winner in the presidential race Thursday night, according to Bloomberg.
• Nevada has yet to count 190,150 ballots and 90% of these ballots are in Clark County, Las Vegas, according to Bloomberg. Nevada has become a major battlefield state in this election where Biden leads Trump by more than 10,000 votes according to the New York Times.
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