US Elections: Donald Trump Breaks His Silence In First Public Comments Since Defeat

Donald Trump said that Operation Ward Speed, the US policy to create a vaccine for Covid-19, unfolded in “record time.”

“No medical advance of this scope or magnitude has ever been made so fast,” he said.

Trump speaks publicly for the first time since losing the US election to Joe Biden six days ago.

Trump is said to be about to issue a statement on Operation Warp Speed, which relates to the development by the US government of a Covid-19 vaccine.

Operation Ward Speed ​​is unrivaled anywhere in the world, he said.

Trump said he had been congratulated by leaders around the world.

“It has been an incredible effort,” he said.

Trump said Pfizer announced Monday that its vaccine was 90 percent effective.

The White House has given Pfizer about $ 2 billion for the vaccine and it would provide doses to Americans “free of charge.”

Pfizer made “an unfortunate misinterpretation,” Trump said, when the company said that the development of the vaccine was not part of Operation Warp Speed.

Despite being away from the cameras, Trump has been busy tweeting unfounded theories about election fraud.

This morning, the American news networks summoned the last group of states, completing the results of the elections in the country.

The states of Arizona and Georgia have been called up by Biden, cementing his victory. Trump is the projected winner in North Carolina.

Trump’s campaign team is still taking legal action to challenge the results, but experts say none of the cases are expected to alter the results.

In his current form, Biden won the US election with 306 electoral votes, the same number of electoral votes that gave Trump the victory four years ago.

What Trump would have to do to overturn Biden’s victory

So now that we have the final result, let’s get a little theoretical.

Joe Biden has won 306 electoral votes. What would Donald Trump have to do, hypothetically, to reverse the result?

The path of least resistance here (I’m using that term loosely) would be for the president’s legal team to change in some way:

1. Georgia (where Mr. Biden has won 14,000 votes)

2. Pennsylvania (Mr. Biden has increased by 59,000)

3. Arizona (Mr. Biden has increased by 11,000)

Those three would.

Trump has also been talking about Wisconsin (where Biden leads by 20,000) and Michigan (where he leads by 148,000). There will be a recount in Wisconsin, although it would be highly unusual for that to change more than a few hundred votes.

The most fundamental point here has not changed: Trump and his attorneys have yet to present evidence to support their claims of widespread fraud. None of the lawsuits they have filed so far would threaten Biden’s margin in just one of the states listed above.

Put aside the fact that many of those lawsuits have been quickly dismissed by judges for lack of evidence. They just don’t involve enough votes to change the election outcome anyway.

– With news.com.au