US Election Outcome: Trump and Biden are locked in a tight race for the White House.
New Delhi / Washington:
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday morning that he had won the US election and, accusing his rival Joe Biden’s Democrats of “fraud,” said he would go to the Supreme Court to challenge the vote count. “We were on the verge of winning, in fact we have already won,” Trump said in an extraordinary White House speech at 2:30 a.m.
“We were winning in many other states and we were about to report it and then suddenly this fraud happened there. A fraud on the American people. And we won’t let that happen.” President Trump said, saying he would go to court and “we want all votes to stop.” He appears to mean to stop counting mail-in ballots, which can be legally accepted by state election commissions after Tuesday’s election, provided they are sent on time.
“So we’re going to go to the United States Supreme Court and make sure that suddenly new ballots aren’t mysteriously discovered at 4 a.m. and added to their count. Frankly, it’s a shame for the ‘America and millions of Americans,’ he said. , speaking from the East Room of the White House with Vice President Mike Pence and First Lady Melania Trump by his side.
The president said Republicans were about to celebrate a “nice” victory when “suddenly something happened”.
“But we won’t let them get away with this. We were about to celebrate such a beautiful thing. The results were phenomenal … we will surely win. We are way ahead in the states where the numbers are coming. again. in. They will never catch up with us, ”he said.
He added that Republicans were winning almost every state to count and that would also be a huge margin. “We don’t even need all of them, but we’re still winning.”
Election results in some battlefield states, including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia, are still unclear and projections from major networks show Trump, 74, still falling short of 270 votes. electoral requirements to be re-elected. Trump won the key states of Florida, Ohio and Texas, wiping out Biden’s hopes for a decisive early victory. Biden won Arizona, Virginia and New Hampshire among others.
Biden, 77, was eyeing the so-called “blue wall” states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that sent Trump to the White House in 2016 for possible breakthroughs.
Previously, the Democratic presidential candidate had claimed he was on track to win the election, warning his supporters that it would take time to finish counting the votes. “Keep the faith guys. We’re going to win this (election),” Biden told a crowd in his hometown of Delaware.
