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WILMINGTON: Joe Biden’s campaign in the White House criticized President Donald Trump’s threat to try to stop the electoral vote recount as “outrageous” early Wednesday morning (Nov. 4), saying his legal team was ready to prevent an “unprecedented” act.
“The president’s statement tonight about trying to close the scrutiny of properly cast votes was outrageous, unprecedented and incorrect,” Biden’s campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement as the election remained undecided. .
“Never before in our history has a president of the United States tried to strip Americans of their voice in a national election.”
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The comments came shortly after Trump delivered an extraordinary speech from the White House, in which he claimed that “we won this election” despite the fact that neither candidate reached the electoral voting threshold for victory.
“We want all voting to stop,” Trump said, which appears to mean stopping the counting of mail-in ballots, which can be legally accepted by state boards of elections after Tuesday’s election, provided they are postmarked in time.
Several battlefield states were still in the air early Wednesday when Trump spoke, including Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Biden has long warned that Trump was seeking to lower the integrity of voting by mail, which has increased this year due to health concerns about going to polling places in person during the coronavirus pandemic.
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“Having encouraged Republican efforts in various states to prevent the legal counting of these ballots before Election Day, now Donald Trump says that these ballots cannot be counted after Election Day either,” Dillon said.
Trump called the slow voting tabulations in the battlefield states a “fraud” and said he would go to the Supreme Court to dispute the vote count.
But Biden’s campaign insisted that “the count will not stop.”
“We have legal teams ready to be deployed to resist … and they will prevail,” Dillon said.
The presidential election was at stake, with Biden winning 238 Electoral College votes so far and Trump securing 213 based on the states they have won so far, according to US media projections.
The magic number for victory is 270 out of a total of 538.
