“The most dishonest speech of all”. Trump’s speech was interrupted by several television channels when he announced his victory in the elections.

At least five American television channels interrupted the transmission of the speech of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, when he spoke of counting “illegal votes” and “manipulating” elections on the part of the Democrats, writes The Verge.

The White House incumbent, who is again running for Republican office, began his speech by saying that he “easily wins” the election if “legal votes” are counted. At this point, the hosts of the television channels MSNBC, ABC, CBS, CNBC and NBC interrupted him.

“There are no illegal votes that we know of, there is not a single Trump victory that we know of,” Brian Williams said on air. MSNBC, interrupting Trump’s speech, recording this excerpt from the program made public on Twitter, CNN reporter Oliver Darcy.

CBS instead of Trump’s words included presenters in their studio, who verified the president’s words and emphasized that there was no confirmation of his words.

Journalist CNBC Shepard smith arrested broadcasting Trump’s speech, saying, “We are interrupting this because what the president is saying is, for the most part, an outright lie.”

Triumph aware An excerpt from this Twitter chat, but social media tagged it as “controversial content that may be misleading. ”

CNN and Fox News did not interrupt Trump’s speech, but CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale on Twitter wrotethat the president’s speech was “the most dishonest he has ever made.”

The Verge notes that when Trump spoke of “illegal votes,” he was probably referring to a vote by mail, the results of which have yet to be established.

IN THE USA On November 3 the main vote took place in the presidential elections. More than 10 candidates are running for office, the main competitors are considered the candidate of the Republican Party Trump and the former vice president of the American Democrat Joe Biden. Turnout in these elections was a 120-year record – some 160 million Americans participated in them.

Vox wrote that the election result will probably will be determined by voters in six key states: Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, Arizona, and North Carolina.

According to CNN Y Fox NewsTrump already won in Florida. Fox News analysts believe Biden won in Wisconsin, Arizona and Michigan (CNN has yet to release final figures for these states). IN North Carolina, according to these channels, is led by Trump (the count is still ongoing). In Pennsylvania – Biden.

Trump’s campaign headquarters, citing an alleged lack of access to track the vote count, demanded a halt in three states: Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Subsequently, the Georgia and Michigan courts rejected Trump’s headquarters claim. In Pennsylvania, the court partially satisfied the claim, but this did not affect the vote count.

To win the election, you must win the support of 270 voters (they generally cast their votes in the same way that the majority of voters in their state voted). There are 538 people in the electoral college. According to CNN, Biden has already secured the support of 253 voters, and Trump: 213. Fox News and Bloomberg cite other data: 264 votes for Biden and 214 for Trump.

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