The US general election continues to unfold neck-to-neck, as the two candidates race to secure 270 electoral college votes in order to win the presidency. With many key states still counting millions of mail-in and absentee ballots, the race is still too close to call.
However, incumbent Donald Trump prematurely declared victory on early Wednesday morning itself, baselessly labeling the legitimate vote-counting efforts as “fraud” and vowed to take his case to the US Supreme Court. Later in the day, Trump and his aides doubled down on their false claims that they had won in battleground states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina (which are still tallying votes) and accused the Democrats of stealing the election by having people vote after Election Day. In truth, polls have closed, and no more votes are being cast, only tallied.
The Trump campaign has aggressively pushed its “voter fraud” message and said today that it was pursuing legal action to halt the counting of ballots in Michigan (MI) and Pennsylvania (PA), in order to get increased access to observe the tallying process at numerous locations in those battleground states. An hour ago, it also announced that it would appeal to the Supreme Court in an attempt to circumvent the state supreme court and stop mail-in ballots that arrive over the next few days from being counted in PA. The states have a combined 36 Electoral College votes at stake. Numerous news channels have already called Michigan in favor of Biden, and Pennsylvania is still a close race.
Democratic challenger Joe Biden spoke earlier today, calling on the people to remain calm and patient for the vote counting to be completed. He sought to reassure the American public and said that their democracy would “not be taken away” from them in any circumstance and that the fight will not be over until every last vote is counted.
In the House and Senate races, Democrats are expected to keep the House of Representatives, with Republicans leading in the fight for the Senate. Prominent GOP Senators Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins are all expected to win in their home states.
US Presidential Race to 270 Still Too Close to Call
This story will be updated regularly.
November 5, 2020
SOURCE: YAHOO NEWS