Trump accepts poll outcome only to backtrack hour later

Washington, November 15

President Donald Trump backtracked after showing on Sunday to acknowledge for the primary time that Joe Biden received the November Three election, saying he conceded “nothing” and repeating his “unfounded” claims of widespread voting fraud.

Biden defeated Donald Trump by profitable a collection of battleground states that the Republican incumbent had received in 2016. The Democratic former Vice President additionally received the nationwide standard vote by greater than 5.5 million votes, or 3.6 share factors.

Trump made his conflicting statements in a collection of Twitter posts. “He won because the Election was Rigged,” Trump wrote on Sunday morning, not referring to Biden by identify.

About an hour later, Trump wrote, “He only won in the eyes of the FAKE NEWS MEDIA. I concede NOTHING! We have a long way to go. This was a RIGGED ELECTION!”

Trump’s marketing campaign has filed lawsuits looking for to overturn the ends in a number of states, although with out success, and authorized specialists say the litigation stands little probability of altering the ballot consequence.

Meanwhile, hundreds of Trump supporters protested in Washington. The march was largely peaceable, however scuffles broke out between Trump supporters and counter-protesters later. — Reuters

Democrats’ tally reaches 306

Biden has received 306 votes within the state-by-state Electoral College system that determines the presidential winner, based on Edison Research, excess of the 270 wanted to safe a majority. Trump earned the identical variety of electoral votes in 2016.

Biden but to dial modi

New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi is in line for a telephonic dialog after South Block turned one of many first nations aside from its allies to congratulate each Biden and Kamala Harris. Leaders of Japan, Australia and South Korea have obtained telephone calls from Biden about five-six days after their congratulatory messages, the MEA right here mentioned a Modi-Biden telephone dialog would happen in the end at a mutually handy time. TNS