US election 2020: Trump repeats victory claim as Biden leads | READ DETAILS
chuks oti
Nov 06, 2020
United States President, Donald Trump has restated his declaration of victory.
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At the White House on Thursday night, Trump said by "legal votes", he won the election.
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The President reiterated his decision to file litigations to challenge results in some states.
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"If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us.
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"I challenge Joe and every Democrat to clarify that they only won legal votes, because they talk about votes, and I think they should use the word, 'legal'", he said.
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There has been no evidence that illegal or late votes were being counted.
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Official results show Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the lead.
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To be declared winner, a candidate must win 270 of the 538 electoral college votes.
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The former Senator has secured 253, while Trump trails with 214 as at 9am Nigerian time.
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In nationwide figures, Biden has polled more than 73.7 million votes (50.5%) and Trump 69,655,186 votes (47.7%), according to the New York Times.
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On Friday, the former Vice President told his supporters to "keep the faith"
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"The people will not be silenced, be bullied, or surrender. Every vote must be counted", he tweeted.
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Campaign manager, Jen O'Malley Dillon, said Biden now has won more votes than any presidential candidate in history.
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"Because he sees the same data we do and knows he's losing, Donald Trump continues to push a flailing strategy designed to prevent people's votes from being counted", Dillon said.
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Counting is ongoing in key states. This is due to the massive number of mail-in and provisional ballots.
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