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WASHINGTON: Despite the incomplete results of various states on the battlefield that could determine the outcome of the US presidential race, President Donald Trump on Wednesday (November 4) proclaimed victory over Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
“Frankly, we won,” Trump told his supporters at the White House. “As for me, we have already won.”
But election results for some battle states, including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia, were still unclear, and projections from major networks and Edison Research showed that Trump has yet to reach the 270 electoral votes needed to win reelection.
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He said he would dispute the electoral count in the Supreme Court.
“We are going to the US Supreme Court; we want the voting to stop,” Trump said. In fact, there are no more voting, just counting.
“A very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise” the millions of people who voted for Trump, the Republican president added.
Trump said the White House was “preparing for a big celebration” before it was “suddenly canceled.”
The president recited a list of states that he claimed to have won, even though many are still being counted, and insisted that the Democrats “can’t get us.”
“IT’S NOT DONE”: BIDEN
Addressing supporters in Wilmington, Delaware, Democratic challenger Joe Biden said, “It doesn’t end until every vote is counted, every ballot is counted.”
“It is not my place nor the place of Donald Trump” to declare the result; the decision rests with the people, he added.
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Biden said he believes he is “on track” to defeat US President Donald Trump, and asked Americans to be patient with the vote count, as several swing states remain up in the air.
“We believe we are on track to win this election,” Biden told his supporters in a broadcast.
The Associated Press projected that Biden would win the Arizona state battlefield, making him the second Democratic presidential candidate since 1948 to win the long-time Republican stronghold.
The American media also predicted that Biden would win at least three of Maine’s four electoral votes. Projected to win the state count and 1st Congressional District, good for three electoral votes.
Meanwhile, Trump hoped to claim an electoral vote in a victory in the second congressional district. The second congressional district has yet to be called.
Maine split its electoral votes four years ago, giving three to Democrat Hillary Clinton and one to Trump, who won Maine’s most rural and conservative congressional district.
It was the first time in state history that Maine divided its electoral votes.
Maine is one of only two states that divides its electoral votes. The other is Nebraska.
