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WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump said without evidence Thursday night (November 5) that if “legal” votes were counted, he would “easily” win the presidential election, in a sign that he is not in the right place. humor to give in to Joe Biden.
“If you count the legal votes, I win easily. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us if you count the votes that were late,” Trump said in his first televised appearance since election night.
“We are watching them very carefully, but many votes were late.”
He also said that he “had already decisively won many critical states, including massive victories” in Florida, Iowa, Indiana and Ohio.
“We won these and many other victories despite historic electoral interference in big money, big media and big technology,” Trump said in the White House meeting room.
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Trump added that his team had initiated an “enormous amount of litigation” to counter what he called the “corruption” of the Democrats, even as various officials in battle states who have not yet been called have defended the integrity of the vote.
COURT OF SPEECH ON US TV NETWORKS
Beyond the rhetoric, Trump’s complaints specifically targeted the integrity of the large number of ballots sent by mail, rather than being cast in person on Election Day.
The big shift to postal ballots this year reflected voters’ desire to avoid the risk of exposure to COVID-19 in crowded polling stations during a pandemic that has already killed more than 230,000 Americans.
Yet because Trump often denied the severity of the virus and told his supporters not to support mail-in ballots, far fewer Republicans took advantage of the option, compared to Democrats.
Several of the major US television networks cut live coverage of Trump’s event shortly after it began, with MSNBC citing the need to correct the president’s false claims.
ROADS TO VICTORY
Joe Biden appears to be leading the way after victories at Michigan and Wisconsin. With 264 projected electoral college votes for the Democrat, he is one battlefield state away from becoming president-elect.
Trump, with 214 electoral votes, faces a much bigger hurdle. To get to 270, you need to claim the remaining four battlefields: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, and Nevada.
Earlier, Biden told reporters in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, that he “had no doubt” that he would defeat Trump and be declared the winner of the US election. He urged voters to remain calm and said the result will be known “very soon.”
Meanwhile, the Trump campaign has lost court rulings in the hotly contested states of Georgia and Michigan, and has vowed to file a new lawsuit challenging what it called voting irregularities in Nevada.
