As polls closed Tuesday night across the United States in the 2020 presidential election, one thing became clear: The conclusion will not be a swift one.
President Donald Trump has secured the swing states of Ohio, Iowa, Texas and, crucially, Florida, according to The Associated Press.
Tallying the states that have been called so far, Biden holds 238 electoral votes, while Trump has 213, with 87 electoral votes yet to be called. A candidate needs 270 votes to secure the presidency.
President Trump declared victory in multiple key battleground states early Wednesday, even though it remained unclear who had the votes to win, as Trump hinted the White House would push the Supreme Court to rule over disputed ballots, warning that a “very sad group of people” was trying to “disenfranchise” voters.
Earlier, Democratic nominee Joe Biden addressed his supporters.
“We believe we are on track to win this election,” Mr. Biden said in a brief speech after 12:30 a.m. Eastern, saying he was “optimistic” about the outcome once all the votes were counted.
VIDEO: Joe Biden speaks on election night
The president, speaking from the East Room of the White House, alongside first lady Melania Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and second lady Karen Pence, thanked his supporters and touted “record” turnout.
“I want to thank the American people for their tremendous support. Millions and millions of people voted for us tonight and a very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise that group of people and we will not stand for it,” Trump said. “We won’t stand for it.”
Jen O’Malley Dillon, Joe Biden’s campaign manager, said in a statement that Trump “does not decide the outcome of this election. Joe Biden does not decide the outcome of this election. The American people decide the outcome of this election. And the democratic process must and will continue until its conclusion.”
The president was able to declare victory late Tuesday in battleground states of Florida, Ohio, and Iowa, and was able to clinch a big electoral win in traditionally red Texas, among other states, Fox News projected.
But, a number of key battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and North Carolina, were too close to call.
“We won states we weren’t expecting to win,” Trump said. “Florida, we didn’t win it, we won it by a lot.”
“We won the great state of Ohio, we won Texas…It is also clear that we have won Georgia,” Trump said, despite that race not yet being called. “They’re never gonna catch us. They can’t catch us.”
The president said the same of North Carolina, saying he has “clearly won,” and again, that “they can’t catch us,” despite that race, too, not yet being called.
The president, and his campaign throughout the night, complained about the race in Arizona, which Fox News called for his rival, Democrat Joe Biden. The campaign, and the governor of Arizona, argued that some Election Day votes still needed to be counted.
“Arizona, we have a lot of life in that,” Trump said. “Somebody declared victory, and maybe it will be, but certainly there were a lot of votes out there that we could get. We’re now just getting into Trump territory and that could be overturned.”
The president shifted to Pennsylvania, and said he was “winning” in the state “by a tremendous amount of votes,” despite votes still being counted there.
“All of a sudden, I said, what happened to the election? It’s off,” Trump said. “You know what happened. They knew they couldn’t win, so they said, let’s go to court.”
Trump added that he predicted a legal battle, and said he has “been saying this since the day I heard there would be tens of millions of ballots sent,” referring to the unprecedented scale of mail-in voting amid the coronavirus pandemic.
VIDEO: President Trump speaks on election night
Just a forewarning to Collive readers: based on the current numbers and future projections, President Trump has almost no path to victory.
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The worst thing they did in the swing states was stop counting,if there is more votes biden maybe could have win Now trump has a reason to bring it to the Supreme Court saying he won because now he has the lead by 282 electoral votes,and that is what the election day results is. Trump is also gonna say the legislators is the only one allowed to chnge the laws of voting not judges. The domcrats will say we were trying to make sure every person votes count. And we will not get results for a long time,and waiting for… Read more »
With michigan i was listening to the count. Trump was way ahead. Then they said they were stopping the count. When they restarted they said biden had 388,000 more votes! That was impossible in that short amount of time and none were added for trump. Rampant fraud. This will be decided by supreme court
why the counting of illegal votes?????
All votes are valid, every voice counts.
“טראכט גוט וועט זיין גוט”
Michigan was way ahead for trump when 3:30am they suddenly “discovered” 130,000 more votes for biden from mail in ballots. Simply not believable. In pennslyvania a republican poll watcher wasnt allowed in and kamala harris flyers were illegally plastered all over the entrance of that polling place. I saw the video. Also 100 ballots for trump were thrown in the garbage there. It is being investigated. We wont know for weeks what the true result is with the mail in ballots and court challenges. Some states allow ballots to arrive nov 10 or nov 11 if mailed by election day
There is a video going around of polling stations handing out sharpie markers only, which the machines do not pick-up. So much corruption :(.
Sharpie markers are picked up by the machine. In my state for the past 30 years, the only pens at the voting booths have been sharpie-type felt tips. I’ve used a sharpie every time I vote and then, like everyone, feed the ballot into the machine while the poll worker confirms it has been read.
All the ballots need is that they be clearly marked with a dark pen or felt tip, like a sharpie.
the cheating was unreal!
The people have voted. All votes count. America is a democracy. We will listen to the voices of the people, not the voices of the candidates.
But the voices of the live people, one vote per person. Not those of dead people, or of fraudulently filled out or “found” ballots.
There is no evidence of fraud. Trump feared he would lose so he started spreading rumors about fraud. There is nothing unusual for election officials to release totals in big batches. The only thing different this year is a lot of mail-ins that were counted today (and in some states still being counted) because of the pandemic.
And let the disinformation begin.
The earth is flat.
American didn’t land on the moon
America didn’t kill Osama bin laden
Democrats are a secret cabal of pedepholiles conspiring to take down trump
There is a vast conspiracy amongst only democratic individuals in this country to steal the election from trump
Vaccines serve no purpose then to enrich large corparations
The coronavirus has no death rate. All deaths were coused by the hospitals
Finally someone with a clear head. Since when do yidden eat up and repeat every rumor on the street or on Fox news.