Despite the fact that Joe Biden has already been congratulated on the election victory by several foreign heads of state, incumbent President Donald Trump will not agree that the battle is lost.
In several messages on Twitter on Saturday night, he continues to make accusations of election fraud.
– Observers were not allowed into the counting rooms. I won the election, got 71,000,000 legal votes. Bad things happened that observers were not allowed to see. Never happened before. Millions of postal votes were sent to people who had never asked for them, outgoing President Donald Trump writes on Twitter.
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Donald Trump has so far received 70.4 million votes, the second most in history: 74.5 million Americans have voted for Biden as their next president.
71,000,000 legal votes. Most ever for a sitting president, he tweeted shortly after.
Just minutes after the messages were published, one message was marked by Twitter as debated.
The head of the federal election commission in the USA, Ellen Weintraub, says there is no evidence of election fraud in the presidential election, reports CNN.
– There is no evidence of any form of electoral fraud. No evidence that illegal votes have been cast, she said.
The count is still ongoing in some states, but Biden has secured at least 279 voters, while Trump has so far secured 214.
At the same time it became clear that US media nominated Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election, Donald Trump could be seen leaving the White House and going to his own Trump National Golf Club in the state of Virginia. It reports Reuters, CNN and AFP.
By then, his presidential campaign had already tweeted a statement in which Trump says, among other things:
– The simple fact is that this election is far from over.
He remained on the golf course for several hours, before CNN on Saturday night announced he was back in the White House.
According to CNN, Trump has not contacted incoming President Biden, as is common for a losing president to do, and who Hillary Clinton did when Trump won in 2016.
The votes are still counted, and the media have different practices for when they consider a state decided. VG’s figures are provided by DPA, as user CNN as main source:
Published: 07.11.20 at 22:32
Updated: 08.11.20 at 00:53
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