Democrat Joe Biden asks supporters to be patient with vote count and says the election is not over until all votes are counted.
“I’m optimistic about this outcome,” Biden said in Wilmington, Delaware. “We’re confident about Arizona” and Minnesota.
“We’re still in the game in Georgia, although that’s not one we expected ... and we’re feeling real good about Wisconsin and Michigan," he stressed.
Biden also said he is optimistic “we’re going to win Pennsylvania.”
There are millions of legitimate absentee and mail-in ballots that have not been counted yet, especially in the key states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. These are three states that count in-person votes first, then absentee votes.
“We knew because of the unprecedented mail-in vote and the early vote that it was going to take a while,” said Biden, “and we have to be patient, and it’s not over until every vote is counted.”
According to NBC News, Biden had secured 205 electoral votes, while President Donald Trump had won 171.
CNBC says that Trump has spent months shaping legal and political instruments to challenge the results in half a dozen states that count absentee ballots past Election Day.
While Biden was speaking, Trump accused Democrats of attempting to “steal the election.”
“We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after the Polls are closed!” he tweeted.
Trump claims victory
Trump also claimed victory even while ballots are still being counted and a half-dozen battleground states were not yet called.
“A very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise [people who voted for me] and we won’t stand for this,” Trump told supporters in the White House before 2:30 in the morning.
Democrat Joe Biden told supporters an hour earlier that he is optimistic about winning the presidential election and called on Americans to be patient.
On the other hand, Trump claims victory: “We were getting ready for a big celebration. We were winning everything, and all of a sudden it was just called off.”
“We’ll be going to the U.S. Supreme Court, we want all voting to stop,” Trump stressed more than an hour following the closing of the final U.S. polls in Alaska. “We don’t want them to find any ballots at 4 o’clock in the morning and add them to the list.”
CNBC states that what Trump meant by “going to the Supreme Court” remains unclear since that the country’s highest court is hardly the first judicial authority for a case, but rather, it evaluates lower court rulings.
The Trump campaign was not able to respond to CNBC’s query. “This is a fraud on the American public. This is an embarrassment to our country,” Trump stated in his rambling statement.
“It’s a very sad moment to me, a very sad moment, and we are going to win this,” he stressed. “As far as I’m concerned, we already have won this, so I want to thank all of our supporters and I want to thank everybody that worked with us.”
According to CNBC, ever since the coronavirus pandemic compelled Americans to vote by mail, Trump seemingly sowed doubts in the integrity of the process. He claimed that votes cast by mail are rife with “fraud.”
