President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed he had won the US election, despite the final results not yet being given, and said he would go to the Supreme Court to dispute the counting of votes.

“We did win this election,” Trump said in an extraordinary speech from the ceremonial East Room of the White House. “This is a fraud on the American public.”

The Republican, who according to initial results is in a neck-and-neck race with Democrat Joe Biden, said he would go to court and “we want all voting to stop.”

He appeared to mean stopping the counting of mail-in ballots which can be legally accepted by state election boards after Tuesday’s election, provided they were sent in time.

The issue could become crucial in the states still tabulating votes in a very tight contest.

Democrats are widely thought to have cast mail-in ballots more than Trump’s supporters.

Trump made his premature victory claim — unprecedented for a US president — shortly after 2:20 a.m. (0720 GMT), as states across the huge country worked to count the votes.

A record number of ballots were cast before Election Day, totaling more than 100 million, due to fears of congregating in polling stations in person during the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump began with a sometimes rambling statement expressing disappointment that he had believed he was on a road to certain victory but that results then stopped coming in and the Republican-friendly state of Arizona was called for Biden.

“We were getting ready for a big celebration. We were winning everything and all of a sudden it was just called off,” Trump said without fully explaining what he meant.

“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,” he said.

Trump said “we will be going to the US Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop.”

There was immediate backlash from Trump’s own Republican backers.

“It’s a bad strategic decision. It’s a bad political decision,” Chris Christie, a Trump advisor said of the middle-of-the-night speech.


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Fahdiga:
Trump should not accept any rigged election that doesn't declare him winner

TecM0:
Trump had already prepared for this, that's why he barricaded white house, and added extra security

The real loser here are the Republican that handed over their Political structure to Trump

Fahdiga:
Trump should not accept any rigged election that doesn't declare him winner

SilverNorGold:
.. I keep on saying it.. Una too dey overhype the US for nothing.. Compare the peaceful, transparent and mature elections conducted in Nigeria, under the administration of president Mohammadu Buhari with the disastrous, immature and shady election currently going on in the US, and you will agree with me that Nigeria's electoral system is far more advanced than that of the United States of America, under Buhari's administration..

The US should humble herself and come to Nigeria and learn from the Alpha Male himself...

I will not take the opinion of unpatriotic elements seriously.

And to our foreign brothers and sisters here, welcome to the new Nigeria, the Pride of the world..

God bless President Mohammadu Buhari.
God bless Professor Osinbajo.
God bless all patriotic Nigerians.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

TecM0:
Trump had already prepared for this, that's why he barricaded white house, and added extra security

The real loser here are the Republican that handed over their Political structure to Trump

Dede1:


The local democratic party activists with their appointed judges are doing everything to deny the Trump the presidency but they will fail. The idiotic liberals are very hard to turn US into a backwater. They behave like Africans. Nobody continues balloting when the polls are closed. In some places, the counting of ballot has been stop to be continued another day a scenario of backwardness in country such as US.

TecM0:



The laws are simple , once you are on the line after polls end you get to vote

Anyways what Trump the con is worried about are the mail in votes and he knows people sending in mail in votes are people scared of covid 19 and they would definitely vote against him



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4four:
are afraid to mention daura man

Xisnin:

It is rare to find someone who dislikes Trump and Buhari's behavior. It is usually one or the other.

helinues:
Something they advised both of them not to do in order not to cause panic and tension.

Eish