US President Donald Trump said he will go to the Supreme Court to dispute the election count and proclaimed victory over Democratic challenger Joe Biden despite incomplete results from various states on the battlefield that could potentially determine the outcome of the race for the White House.
“Frankly, we won,” Trump told his supporters at the White House.
But election results for some battle states, including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia, were still unclear, and projections from major networks showed that Trump has yet to reach the 270 electoral votes needed to win reelection.
The Republican, who according to initial results, is in a melee race with Democrat Joe Biden, said he would go to court and “we want the voting to stop.” It seemed to mean stopping the counting of mail-in ballots that can be legally accepted by state boards of elections after Tuesday’s election, provided they are mailed on time.
The president has long accused, without proof, that mail-in ballots are a form of cheating in elections.
Mail-in ballots, sent due to health concerns during the Covid-19 health crisis, are expected to favor Biden and in some states they were later counted.
The US media projects victories for the Republican incumbent so far in 23 states, including the Florida and Texas Grand Prix, as well as Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Ohio, all of the states he won in 2016.
Biden has captured 18 states, including his home state, Delaware, and Grand Prix, California and New York, as well as the United States capital. As with Trump, so far all the states claimed by Biden were won by Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
So far, that gives Biden a slight advantage over Trump in electoral votes, although several key states on the battlefield are still up in the air, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The magic number of electoral votes is 270.
Attention has increasingly shifted to three northern industrial states, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, which could prove crucial in determining who wins the White House.
Trump had previously tweeted that he expected a “big victory” and accused Democrats of trying to steal the election after rival Joe Biden also predicted victory. He appeared to be responding to Biden, who moments earlier told his followers to be patient.
Biden, who appeared briefly in front of supporters in Delaware, said the election “doesn’t end until every vote is counted, every ballot is counted.” “It is not my place or Donald Trump’s to declare who won this election,” Biden said. “That is the decision of the American people.”
“We think we are on our way to winning this election,” Biden said with honks of approval in his home state of Delaware.
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