‘We won’, declares Trump, vows to move Supreme Court to stop counting

President Donald Trump sought to declare victory at the same time as thousands and thousands of votes remained to be counted in key battleground states, saying in a speech from the White House on Wednesday he can be going to the Supreme Court to ask for “all voting to stop”, alleging fraud.

“Frankly, we did win this election,” he mentioned, when he was nowhere close to the 270 electoral faculty votes he wanted to win. Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, was forward with 225votes to Trump’s 213 in Associate Press tracker on the time of writing of this report.

The president had received Florida, Iowa and Ohio as voting had continued into early Wednesday morning and Biden expressed confidence about choosing up Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and mentioned he was “on track” to win the election.

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Neither of them had flipped a state but, though Biden was closest to it, having held a gradual lead in Arizona, a Republican-leaning state Trump had received in 2016. Fox News referred to as it for Biden after which retracted below fireplace from the Trump marketing campaign for leaping the gun. But an indignant Trump referenced it at size in his controversial White House speech.

“We feel good about where we are,” Biden had mentioned earlier. “We really do. I’m here to tell you tonight we believe we’re on track to win this election.”

He added: “We are feeling really good about Wisconsin and Michigan. And by the way it’s going to take time to count the votes but we’re going to win Pennsylvania.”

Around the identical time, Trump first sought to insert his false claims and grievances into the election course of with a tweet, which was flagged by Twitter as disputed or deceptive content material, that he was “up Big” and wrongly claimed “they are trying to STEAL the Election”.

Trump and Biden had been locked in shut fights in battleground states as counting of votes progressed haltingly in some battleground states due to the excessive volumes of early votes, particularly these mailed in.

But Trump didn’t lose in a landslide as some pundits had forecast, and Biden didn’t shut the competition early as some had mentioned he may.

Trump had picked up Florida, Iowa and Ohio among the many battleground states he had received in 2016, and was main in North Carolina. He additionally held on to Texas and Georgia, the solidly Republican states that Democrats had hoped to flip in a late marketing campaign push.

Trump was additionally main in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, the three Democratic states — the Blue Wall states — he had flipped in 2016 to win the presidency. But his leads in these states had been anticipated to alter as massive variety of early votes — particularly mail-in ballots — remained to be counted.

Michigan authorities have mentioned they won’t be able to make an official announcement of the end result until late Wednesday. Pennsylvania may also not have a outcome to announce till then.

Just as Biden had made a play for Georgia and Texas to an prolong and failed, Trump had made a go for New Hampshire and Minnesota, each states received by Hillary Clinton in 2016, and failed. Biden received them each.

But Trump appeared to have held his personal to date regardless of having trailed Biden in polls for a lot of the race, and succeeded in mobilising his supporters with frenetic tempo of campaigning within the finals days when he was a number of rallies throughout a number of states daily.

Jason Miller, a senior member of Trump’s re-election marketing campaign, instructed reporters on a convention name, earlier on Tuesday: “We feel very, very good about our ground game, we feel very good about where we’re turning out.”