If you count the legal votes I easily win – Donald Trump
Biden to Trump: “No one is going to take our democracy away from us”
Georgia recount likely as Biden catches up with Trump
Biden closes up on White House, Trump panicky
Joe Biden has reacted to allegations made by President Donald Trump that the presidential election is being rigged in his favour.
Trump said if the legal votes were counted, he truly won the election, but noted the illegal votes were being counted which should stop.
But Biden, reacting to Trump’s allegation said “No one is going to take our democracy away from us. Not now, not ever.“
“America has come too far, fought too many battles, and endured too much to let that happen,” he tweeted.
Trump had in his address to the nation from the White House said US presidential election is being rigged in favour of Joe Biden, saying “If you count the legal votes I easily win.”
Trump, who addressed the nation from White House, said the mail-in votes were adopted to rig the election in favour of the Democrats.
He said he is being deprived of victory by fraud perpetrated by the Democrats through mail-in votes.
“If you count the legal votes I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us,” Trump alleges.
The President said he was advocating for a halt in counting of “votes that came in late,” and went on to tout races that had already been called for him.
“I’ve already decisively won many critical states, including massive victories,” he claimed.
Georgia recount likely as Biden catches up with Trump
A possible call for a recount of votes in the presidential election in the US state of Georgia, is imminent as Joe Biden reduced President Trump’s lead to 3,486.
The gap between the two candidates narrowed on Thursday night, after the 17,000 votes from Chatham County took the total votes cast in the state to 4,948,610.
Trump now has a narrow lead with 2,446,850 votes, while Biden has 2,443,364 votes.
There are still thousands of mailed and absentee ballots to be counted in the state. And these include military and overseas ballots, expected to arrive on Friday.
Either candidate can ask for a recount.
Republican Secretary of the State of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger,
had hinted earlier about a possible recount, if the gap between the presidential candidates is less than 0.5 percent.
In Georgia, a candidate can ask for a recount when the margin is less than .5% of the total votes cast for the office.
The request must be made within two days following the certification of election results and is ultimately up to the discretion of the secretary of state.
Biden closes up on White House, Trump panicky
With his challenger Joe Biden at the brink of winning the US presidency, incumbent Donald Trump launched an extraordinary assault on the country’s democratic process.
In words and deeds, Trump showed desperation and panic as his re-election chances faded away, with more votes being counted in a handful of battleground states.
At a press briefing at the White House on Thursday, Trump falsely claimed the election was being “stolen” from him, as he also lost legal challenges to stop counting.
Offering no evidence, he lambasted election workers and alleged fraud in the states where results from a dwindling set of uncounted votes are pushing Democrat Joe Biden nearer to victory.
“This is a case where they’re trying to steal an election,” Trump said.
He spoke for about 15 minutes in the White House briefing room before leaving without taking questions.
In Georgia and Michigan on Thursday, Trump’s campaign lost court rulings to challenge the counting of votes.
Undeterred by the setback, the campaign vowed to bring a new lawsuit challenging what it called voting irregularities in Nevada.
In the Georgia case, the campaign alleged 53 late-arriving ballots were mixed with on-time ballots. In Michigan, it had sought to stop votes from being counted and obtain greater access to the tabulation process.
State judges tossed out both the suits on Thursday.
Judge James Bass, a superior court judge in Georgia, said there was “no evidence” that the ballots in question were invalid.
In the Michigan case, Judge Cynthia Stephens said: “I have no basis to find that there is a substantial likelihood of success on the merits.”
Trump allies alleged that there had been voting irregularities in Nevada’s populous Clark County, which includes Las Vegas.
Biden, the former vice president, was steadily eating away the Republican incumbent’s leads in Pennsylvania and Georgia.
He also maintains narrow advantages in Nevada and Arizona, moving closer to securing the 270 votes in the state-by-state Electoral College that determines the winner.
In Pennsylvania, Trump’s lead had shrunk from 319,000 on Wednesday afternoon to less than 64,000 a day later.
His margin in Georgia fell from 68,000 to fewer than 3,500
Those numbers were expected to continue to move in Biden’s favour, with many of the outstanding ballots from areas that typically vote Democratic, including the cities of Philadelphia and Atlanta.
Biden, meanwhile, saw his lead in Arizona contract from 93,000 to 65,000; he was ahead in Nevada by only 11,000 votes.
Biden would become the next president by winning Pennsylvania, or by winning two out of the trio of Georgia, Nevada and Arizona.
Trump’s likeliest path appeared narrower – he needed to hang onto Pennsylvania and Georgia while overtaking Biden in either Nevada or Arizona.
Most major television networks gave Biden a 253 to 214 lead in Electoral College votes, which are largely determined by state population, after he captured the crucial states of Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday.
The Associated Press gave Biden 264 votes, calling out Arizona.
As demonstrators marched in several U.S. cities for a second straight day, the election lay in the hands of civil employees who were methodically counting hundreds of thousands of ballots, many of which were sent by mail amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump is a goner if he loses Pennsylvania
President Donald Trump will lose his re-election bid if he loses the key battleground of Pennsylvania to challenger, Joe Biden.
Pennsylvania has 20 electoral college votes and Trump must win this state to have any hope of a come back.
The President has seen his over 500,000 votes lead in the state narrowed to around 78,000 votes by Biden, with more votes still to be counted.
Only seven percent of votes remains to be counted in Pennsylvania and it amounted to over 300,000 votes.
Most of the remaining ballots are mail-in votes, mostly dubbed Democratic votes swinging in favour of Biden in the ratio of 4:1.
Earlier in the day, a frustrated president called for stoppage of counting so that he doesn’t lose Pennsylvania.
But Biden, in a chat with newsmen on Thursday said all votes must be counted, which is the tenet of democracy.
Right now, Trump holds a lean margin in Pennsylvania, with 3,260,054 votes (50%) and Biden, 3,181,740 votes (48.8%).
