United States President-in-Office Donald Trump, who lost his attempted re-election after the Pennsylvania counting ended, has made it clear that he still does not accept the result and wrote on Twitter hours before the victory message from Joe Biden, which is scheduled for 8 pm (when it is 1 am Sunday in Portugal), who won the electoral act by obtaining 71 million “legal votes”, which surpasses the best result of an incumbent.
THE OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTING ROOMS. I WON THE ELECTION, GOT 71,000,000 LEGAL VOTES. BAD THINGS HAPPENED WHICH OUR OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE. NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WERE SENT TO PEOPLE WHO NEVER ASKED FOR THEM!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2020
The Republican candidate, who is unlikely to exceed 232 votes in the electoral college even though he maintains the advantage in North Carolina and Alaska – the two states where no winner has yet been declared – appears to maintain faith in the possibility of reversing the results announced in some states where he claims electoral fraud will have been committed. But such allegations have failed to convince the justice of these states, the only relative victory of Trump being Supreme Court Judge Samuel Alito’s subpoena for Pennsylvania counties to separate the votes that arrived in the mail after 8:00 pm on November 3.
In that sense, the still occupying the White House, who just could not be challenged by Twitter on the assertion that he was the incumbent with the highest number of votes in the history of the United States – no one had ever gotten so many, but Joe Biden overcame him, approaching him if out of the 75 million -, he repeated on the social network that access to republican observers in the vote counting rooms was not allowed, “which had never happened before”. He added that “millions of ballot papers were sent by mail to people who never asked for them.”
Although most Americans who took to the streets were celebrating the victory of the former United States vice president, who at 77 became the oldest ever to win the White House, there were also demonstrations by Trump supporters . In Phoenix, Arizona’s capital, hundreds of people, some of whom were armed, gathered near the state capitol, and there were also gatherings around the Harrisburg capitol in Pennsylvania and Georgia.
Among the Republicans who have already congratulated Biden on his victory in the presidential election are Senator Mitt Romney, defeated by Barack Obama in 2012, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, brother and children of Presidents George W. Bush and George H. Bush.
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