US President Donald Trump has claimed that a "major fraud" is being perpetrated on the American people and said he will fight the election in the Supreme Court, even as the counting of votes were in progress in the battleground states. Addressing a select gathering of his supporters in the East Room of the White House at 2 am on Wednesday, Trump asserted that he has won the 2020 presidential election.Trump, a Republican, is being challenged by Democratic Party's nominee Joe Biden. "All of a sudden everything just stopped. This is a fraud on the American public. This is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election," Trump said, without citing any evidence of a fraud in the electoral process.
Biden calling the President's bid to stop vote counting "outrageous" and "unprecedented," and saying its legal teams were ready to fight him in the courts."The counting will not stop. It will continue until every duly cast vote is counted," said the Biden campaign. Trump has won the battlegrounds of Florida, Ohio and Texas, erasing Biden's hopes for a decisive early victory. Biden has won Arizona and his hopes are pinned on the so-called "blue wall" states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that sent Trump to the White House in 2016.
Polls have closed and voting has stopped across the country, but election laws in US states require all votes to be counted, and many states routinely take days to finish counting legal ballots. More votes stood to be counted this year than in the past as people voted early by mail and in person because of the coronavirus pandemic. According to reports Biden leads 238 to 213 over Trump in the fight for 270 Electoral College votes at 1930 indian time.
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