Trump Claims Victory, Says He’s Going To Supreme Court

New Delhi/ Washington:

US President Donald Trump claimed early Wednesday that he had gained the US election and, accusing rival Joe Biden’s Democrats of “fraud”, declared that he would go to the Supreme Court to dispute the counting of votes. “We were just about to win, in fact, we have already won,” Trump mentioned in a rare speech from the White House at 2.30 am.

The Biden camp referred to as Trump’s bid to cease vote counting “outrageous and unprecedented”. The Democrat nominee’s authorized groups are “ready to deploy” if Trump tries to halt vote depend, mentioned his marketing campaign.

The President mentioned the Republicans have been about to rejoice a “beautiful” victory when “suddenly something happened”.

“We were winning in many other states and we were just about to declare it and then suddenly this fraud happened there. A fraud on the American people. And we will not let this happen,” mentioned President Trump, asserting that he would go to courtroom and “we want all voting to stop.” He appeared to imply stopping the counting of mail-in ballots, which may be legally accepted by state election boards after Tuesday’s election, supplied they have been despatched in time.

“So, we are going to go to the US Supreme Court and ensure that suddenly new ballots are not mysteriously found at 4 am and added to their tally. Quite frankly this is a shame to America and to the millions of Americans,” he mentioned, talking from the East Room of the White House with Vice President Mike Pence and First Lady Melania Trump by his facet.

“We will not let them get away with this. The results have been phenomenal… we are surely going to win. We are far ahead in the states where numbers are still coming in. They will never ever catch up with us,” he mentioned.

He added that the Republicans have been profitable nearly all states the place counting was on and that too could be an enormous margin. “We don’t even need all of them, but we are still winning.”

Election outcomes from some battleground states, together with Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia, are nonetheless not clear and projections from main networks present Trump, 74, nonetheless wanting the 270 electoral votes must win re-election. Trump gained the important thing states of Florida, Ohio and Texas, erasing Biden’s hopes for a decisive early victory. Biden gained Arizona, Virginia and New Hampshire amongst others.

Biden, 77, was eyeing the so-called “blue wall” states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that despatched Trump to the White House in 2016 for attainable breakthroughs.

Earlier, the Democratic presidential nominee asserted that he is on observe to win the election, warning supporters that it could take time to complete counting the votes. “Keep the faith guys. We are going to win this (election),” Biden advised a crowd in his hometown of Delaware.