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Last update: Wednesday, 04 November, 2020, 07:54
- Tight contests in key states in the US ‘rust belt’
- Biden currently leads in electoral college votes
- Trump performs better than polls suggested
- Biden tells supporters his campaign is on the right track
- Trump Tweets Unsubstantiated Claims Elections Are Being ‘Stolen’
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Trump called the election a “disgrace to our country”
Votes are still being counted in various states and the final confirmed election result is unlikely to be confirmed for days.
“/>Donald Trump: ‘this election is a fraud’
The Republican presidential candidate and incumbent in the White House, Donald Trump, proclaimed himself victorious and called the election a “fraud” despite the fact that legitimate votes are still counted in key states.
Everything we know about this year’s participation
On November 3, millions of Americans cast their votes in the 2020 US election, deciding between incumbent Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
It’s hard to emphasize this enough
What Donald Trump said in his speech does not reflect the landscape of the national elections. Here’s the reaction from US broadcaster CNN moments after the president spoke.
The votes are still being counted
It is important to remember that despite the remarkable statement from the president, the votes are still being counted.
Donald Trump calls the election a ‘great fraud’
President Trump is giving live speeches at the White House and has told his supporters that he will ‘go to the Supreme Court’ to make sure no more votes are counted.
Vice President Mike Pence is now on stage thanking the ’60 million Americans’ who have voted for Donald Trump. He says they will remain “attentive” to the results.
See: Donald Trump Addresses the Nation
Trump claims he has ‘won’ Georgia and ‘clearly a’ North Carolina
The acting president tells the crowd gathered in the East Room of the White House that the electoral map is different from the results as they have been called so far.
Georgia has not been called up for any of the candidates.
Trump addresses the nation at ‘last press conference he’s ever had’
“A very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise that group of people,” says Donald Trump, referring to his claims that the elections are being ‘stolen.’
Catch up on the entire event from the last 12 hours
President Donald Trump led Florida, the nation’s most treasured battleground state, and he and Democrat Joe Biden increasingly focused on the three northern industrial states, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, which could prove crucial. to determine who wins the White House.
Four years after Trump became the first Republican in a generation to capture that trio of states, they again positioned themselves to influence the direction of the presidential election. Trump kept several states, including Texas, Iowa and Ohio, where Biden had made a strong play in the final stages of the campaign.
The close general contest reflected a deeply polarized nation struggling to respond to the worst health crisis in more than a century, with millions of jobs lost and a recognition of racial injustice. Trump and Biden have spent most of this year in a heated fight over how to meet those challenges, and each has argued in apocalyptic terms that their opponent would put the country on a devastating path.
As of early Wednesday, neither candidate had the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win.
Biden, who appeared briefly in front of his supporters in Delaware, urged patience and said the election “doesn’t end until all the votes are counted, all the ballots are counted.”
“It is not my place or Donald Trump’s to declare who won this election,” Biden said. “That is the decision of the American people.”
Trump is expected to make a statement at any time.
Where do we go from here? Our full summary …
The question now is not just who will win, but what will be the price of victory. A nation crippled by a pandemic, beset by economic woes and rife with racial tensions, will have its fragile patience tested as it waits for an outcome. Instant Analysis by Martyn McLaughlin:
Twitter calls Trump’s tweet ‘misleading’
Twitter has called a tweet from President Trump “misleading” after he claimed that the US elections were being “stolen.”
He wrote: “We are in a BIG time, but they are trying to STEAL the election. We will never let them do it. No votes can be cast after the polls close! “
Twitter added a note to Trump’s tweet that read: “Some or all of the content shared in this tweet is in dispute and could be misleading about an election or other civic process.”
A Trump spokesperson said Twitter was trying to “censor and silence” the president.
President Trump has secured 38 votes from the Texas Electoral College for his campaign, despite polls leading up to today’s election suggest Joe Biden could win the state.
The news ensures that elections are likely to hinge on battle states in the Midwest, including Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Twitter has reacted to Donald Trump’s astonishing claim that the US elections are being stolen in typical fashion: Users create memes that describe their reactions.
Trump claims elections are being stolen
In a tweet moments after Joe Biden finished addressing a crowd of supporters in Delaware, President Trump said: “We are BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the election.
“We will never let them do it. No votes can be cast after the Poles (sic) are closed! “
It is not clear who Trump claims is stealing the election.
He later removed the typo and resubmitted the tweet.
Trump also promised to make a statement in person later this morning.
