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WASHINGTON DC, KOMPAS.com – The current Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States (USA) of the Republican Party Donald Trump was angry and claimed that he had been manipulated in the US presidential elections.
He broke loose and blurted out his unsubstantiated claims as America’s presidential vote count showed his rival, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, closing in on victory.
“They are trying to steal the election,” Trump said in a statement at the White House on Thursday night local time, two days after the US election closed.
Without providing evidence, Trump spoke for nearly 17 minutes to make the kind of provocative statement about the democratic process in “Uncle Sam” country that had never been heard from a US president before.
In fact, he did not hold a question and answer session and did not invite reporters to ask questions after giving his speech.
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According to Trump, Democrats are using illegal votes to steal elections from their side. AFP.
“If you count the legal votes, I win easily. They (the Democratic Party) rigged the election and we will not allow that to happen,” says Trump.
Trump’s speech was Trump’s first appearance in front of the media after election night ended on Tuesday (03/11/2020) evening.
Trump’s complaint specifically criticized the integrity of the vote through ballot by mail also known as voting with the US Postal Service.
Change voting ballot by mail this year reflects the desire of voters to avoid the risk of being exposed to Covid-19 in polling stations (TPS).
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Yet Trump has often denied the severity of the virus and told his supporters not to vote for ballot by mail.
Therefore, far fewer Republican supporters and Trump supporters are seizing the option. ballot by mail compared to the Democrats.
Several American television networks cut their live broadcast in the middle of Trump’s speech, one of which was MSNBC.
MSNBC chose to stop the live broadcast of Trump’s speech with the need to correct the false claims of the president.
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Biden approaching the White House
Trump’s statement came as several states had not finished counting the votes, but the interim results of the US presidential election showed that Biden was closing in on the US presidency.
Biden only needed victories in Arizona and Nevada to get to the White House.
Meanwhile, Trump has yet to win several states like Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona to keep his job.
In comments to reporters in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, Biden said his feelings were improving.
“We believe that when the count is complete, Senator (Kamala) Harris (Biden’s cawapres) and I will be declared the winners,” Biden said.
Biden, who has vowed to heal a country devastated by Trump’s four years in power, called on the American people, especially his supporters, to remain calm.
“The process is working. The calculations will be finished soon. We will find out,” Biden said.
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All about Pennsylvania?
In Georgia, Trump was far ahead of Biden by less than 3,500 votes. With 98 percent of the votes counted, Trump and Biden await the final results.
In Arizona and Nevada, Biden maintained his lead for now. If Biden won both states, he would practically get 270 electoral vote (electoral vote) and took over the White House.
But the biggest piece of the puzzle is Pennsylvania, where Trump’s initial lead continues to decline again after officials count the votes of incoming mail you just entered.
According to the count Fox News Y Associated press, Biden won with 264 electoral votes with the entry of Arizona into the bastion of the Democratic presidential candidate.
If Arizona is not included in the constituency won by Biden, then the vice president will get 253 electoral votes.
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If Biden took over Pennsylvania, he would have obtained an additional 20 electoral votes and would have obtained 273 electoral votes if he suddenly lost Arizona.
With more than 325,000 ballots remaining, the official who oversaw the Pennsylvania elections, Kathy Boockvar, told reporters that she could not provide an estimate for the full count.
“(Gapvery close in Pennsylvania, right? That means it will take longer to see who the winner is, “Boockvar said.
Recent results show that Trump’s lead in the state was down to about 61,000 votes over Biden.
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Trump trying to stop counting
Trump’s campaign team continues to insist that Trump will win. They claim that the ballots of Trump supporters do not count.
But Trump’s extraordinary focus is on claiming without evidence that he is the victim of massive fraud.
Trump announced the victory prematurely on Wednesday (11/4/2020) and threatened to seek the intervention of the Supreme Court to stop the vote counting.
Since then, his team has spread across the state, contesting the results of the vote count in court and holding a series of press conferences in which supporters have filed complaints of wrongdoing.
“STOP COUNTING!” Trump wrote on his Twitter account on Thursday morning (11/5/2020) local time.
While Trump has demanded that the counting be stopped in Georgia and Pennsylvania, where he has a limited lead, supporters and his campaign team insist that vote counts continue in Arizona and Nevada, where he follows Biden.
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