Trump takes fighting stance as election swings towards Biden

Washington, November 6

As former Vice President Joe Biden moved nearer to profitable the White House, President Donald Trump adopted a preventing posture on Thursday, making false claims to undermine a vote that was not going his method.

While Biden, a Democrat, known as for calm and persistence, Republican Trump, with out providing proof, stated his opponents had been partaking in fraud and election theft, accusations he has been making lengthy earlier than Election Day.

“If you count the legal votes I easily win,” Trump stated throughout remarks on the White House, his first public look since Wednesday morning. “This is a case where they’re trying to steal an election. They’re trying to rig an election, and we can’t let that happen.”

Trump prompt he had received states which were known as in favour of Biden and sharply criticised polling earlier than the election that he stated was designed to suppress the vote as a result of it favoured the Democrat.

Polls this 12 months, just like the 2016 election that he received, predicted a a lot weaker electoral efficiency by Trump than he achieved.

The president, a former actuality TV star who recurrently performs to cameras and crowds, took no questions from reporters in his first look since early Wednesday morning.

The president’s feedback got here because the election outcomes continued to swing in direction of his Democratic rival.

A somber temper prevailed on the White House. Aides to the president stated they remained cautiously optimistic that he nonetheless had a path to re-election, whereas conceding that he might lose.

Trump labored from the Oval Office on Thursday in what was in any other case largely an empty West Wing. Many of his senior employees had been huddled on the marketing campaign’s headquarters in close by Virginia.

“He’s very engaged, he’s monitoring, talking to all the states. It doesn’t look good, but this guy wants to keep fighting,” stated one Trump confidante, talking on the situation of anonymity. “He’s in a fighting mood right now. He’s not melancholy or dejected. But the path is getting harder and harder.”

The president’s marketing campaign has launched a number of authorized challenges within the states the place votes are nonetheless being counted.

One White House official stated he was assured the technique of authorized challenges would prevail, even when tv networks name the race for Biden as soon as closing vote counts in states equivalent to Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania are available.

Another lamented the lack of help amongst suburban girls that helped doom Trump’s possibilities in Wisconsin, whereas lauding the president for altering the Republican Party for many years to return by attracting extra Latino and African-American votes. Reuters