US Elections: Donald Trump Says Joe Biden Has To ‘Prove’ His 80 Million Votes To Enter White House

Just hours after finally granting Joe Biden the election if the Democrat won the Electoral College vote, Donald Trump has now reverted to his previous stance and has refused to acknowledge that he has lost.

On Twitter, Trump said that US President-elect Biden could now only enter the White House “if he can show that his ridiculous 80,000,000 votes were not obtained fraudulently or illegally.”

“When you see what happened in Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Milwaukee, massive voter fraud, you have a big unsolvable problem,” said Trump, who lost the election.

Twitter quickly flagged the tweet for information contained “in dispute.”

President-elect Biden is anticipated to have received 306 electoral votes and a total of 80,026,721 public votes, while Trump received 232 electoral votes with a total of 73,890,295 public votes.

Despite the numbers and the lack of evidence of widespread electoral fraud, Trump continues to make unsubstantiated accusations.

Biden will be sworn in on January 20, in a public ceremony on the west front of the United States Capitol building in Washington DC.

It’s common for the losing candidate to give in, but Trump doesn’t have to do so for Biden to move into the White House.

Meanwhile, Trump’s legal team has suffered another defeat in court when a federal appeals court in Philadelphia roundly rejected the latest campaign effort to challenge the state’s election results.

Trump’s attorneys promised to appeal to the Supreme Court despite judges’ assessment that “the campaign’s claims are without merit.”

“Free and fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. The accusations of injustice are serious. But calling an election unfair does not mean it is. The charges require specific charges and then evidence. We have neither,” wrote third circuit judge Stephanos Bibas. the panel of three judges.

The case had been argued last week in a lower court by Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who insisted during five hours of oral arguments that the 2020 presidential election had been marred by widespread fraud in Pennsylvania. However, Giuliani did not offer any tangible proof of this in court.

US District Judge Matthew Brann had said the campaign’s buggy complaint, “like Frankenstein’s monster, has been sewn up at random” and denied Giuliani the right to amend it a second time.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit found that decision justified. The three judges on the panel were appointed by Republican presidents. including Bibas, a former Trump-appointed University of Pennsylvania law professor. Trump’s sister, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, was on the court for 20 years and retired in 2019.

“The voters, not the lawyers, choose the president. The ballots, not the writings, decide the elections,” Bibas said in the ruling, which also denied the campaign’s request to prevent the state from certifying its results, a demand that called “impressive”.

In fact, Pennsylvania officials had certified the vote count Monday for President-elect Joe Biden, who defeated Trump by more than 80,000 votes in the state. Nationally, Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris garnered nearly 80 million votes, a record in the United States presidential election.

– Additional reports: AP