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President Donald Trump claimed that the major television networks should be denounced for allegedly altering the results of the 2020 presidential elections.
“Fox News, Quinnipiac University Poll, ABC / WaPo, NBC / WSJ were so inaccurate with their polls on me, it’s really upsetting an election,” Trump tweeted Monday night. “They were so far behind in their polls and in their attempt to repress that they should be called upon to intervene in the elections.”
The tweet continued: “Worst poll ever, and then they’ll be back in four years to do it again. This is so much more than voter suppression and campaign finance!”
Although the vote totals are not yet official and Trump has not yet relented, the Associated Press, along with major television networks, called for the election of Democratic candidate Joe Biden on Saturday after Pennsylvania was projected to win. With the 20 electoral votes of the state, Biden surpassed the 270 needed to secure the White House.
The president has been targeting major media networks since the election in favor of Biden was called, claiming they unfairly decided the election.
In a tweet on Sunday, Trump said: “Since when does Lamestream Media call who will be our president? We have all learned a lot in the last two weeks!”
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The president’s tweet echoed similar comments from Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
“The media is desperately trying to get everyone to crown Joe Biden the next president,” Cruz said during an appearance on Fox News Sunday. “But that is not how it works, the media cannot elect our president, the American people can elect our president.”
The media calls the race based on exit polls and historical data from each state. The Associated Press, in particular, reported using information collected by its VoteCast database to confirm trends within a state, meaning that if the exit poll shows a strong Republican lean in a historically Republican state, the AP will call that state when the polls close.
The electoral race is official when the secretaries of each state publish a final count. The winner of the election is consolidated on December 14 when the electoral college meets and casts its votes for any of the presidential candidates.
Trump indicated Saturday that he will not grant the election to Biden and has threatened “unspecified legal challenges,” according to the Associated Press.
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said Sunday that it is too early for President Donald Trump to grant the election, a belief that Cruz echoed in a separate interview that day.
The Trump campaign has filed multiple lawsuits since Election Day, many of which surround claims of possible voter repression and fraud. However, an official from the Federal Electoral Commission (FEC) said CNN On Saturday there is “no evidence” of widespread electoral fraud in the country.
“Very few substantiated complaints, let me put it that way,” said Ellen Weintraub, commissioner of the FEC. “There is no evidence of any kind of electoral fraud. There is no evidence that illegal votes were cast.”
The Republican National Committee announced Friday that it has deployed “legal challenge teams” to Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania, according to the New York Times.
Both the Trump campaign and the Republican Party also filed lawsuits in a bid to stop the vote count. However, the claims did not gain ground in the courts, and many of the claims appeared to lack substantial evidence of wrongdoing, resulting in their dismissal by the judges.
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