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THANKSGIVING: After calling US soldiers abroad Thursday, US President Donald Trump responded to several questions from the press. Photo: Patrick Semansky / AP
US President Donald Trump says he will respect the result of the voters’ vote on December 14. He will not comment on whether he will attend Joe Biden’s scheduled opening ceremony on January 20.
– Of course I will do that, and you know it, answer a question from a reporter about whether he will leave the White House if voters confirm Joe Biden’s victory on December 14.
-But in that case they will be wrong, he adds according to Bloomberg.
This is the first time Trump has answered questions from the press since the November 3 presidential election. The session took place at the White House after a video greeting to US soldiers abroad on the occasion of Thanksgiving.
It is Joe Biden who has been declared the winner of the presidential election in the American media. Yet officially 538 electors from 50 states nominate the president.
Background: In that way, Trump can still change the election.
These are nominated by each state after the election results are approved and will meet to vote for the next president on December 14.
Voters will follow the wishes of the voters and vote for the winning candidate in their state. With today’s numbers, Biden has 306 voters, to Trump’s 232.
– I won’t say it yet
Trump’s remarks on Thursday night are the closest he has come to admitting that he could have lost the US presidential election, Reuters writes.
However, the president emphasizes that he does not recognize any electoral defeat and refers again to what he believes to be extensive electoral fraud.
“Acknowledging an electoral defeat will be a very difficult thing to do,” he said, according to the Washington Post.
Trump’s team has filed a lawsuit to challenge the election results in several states, but they have not presented evidence of extensive and systematic voter fraud.
– If the media were honest and the big tech companies were fair, this wouldn’t even be a competition. I would have won with a large number of votes, and I won with a large number of votes, but it has yet to be announced, Trump claims, contrary to what the results show:
Biden has received about six million more votes than Trump in the election, he writes guardian.
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When asked if he will attend Joe Biden’s planned inauguration ceremony in Washington DC on January 20, Trump responds as follows:
– I don’t want to answer that yet. I know the answer, I’ll be honest, but I don’t want to say it yet.
His predecessor, Barack Obama, attended Trump’s swearing-in ceremony in January 2017, as is tradition:
It could be Trump’s last chance
It has been speculated that the Trump camp will attempt to control the December 14 election. In theory, they can do so if they persuade state authorities to send other voters than the election outcome would suggest.
Several of the states where the result is very even, and where Trump has demanded the result, are controlled by Republicans.
– It is not entirely impossible legally, but 240 years of electoral history indicate that state authorities designate voters according to the outcome of the elections, American political science professor Todd Landman had previously told VG.
To be successful, Trump and his lawyers must persuade the elected state government that large-scale electoral fraud has occurred. The United States Constitution allows them to nominate voters on their own, if the conduct of the election can be classified as “failed.”
