President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign insisted on Friday that the presidential election is “not over,” working to stave off defeat even as Democratic nominee Joe Biden pulled ahead in two states that would hand him the White House.
Entering Friday morning, the former vice president needed to win only one more state of the five that have yet to be called. At about 9 a.m., Biden took the lead over Trump in Pennsylvania, pulling ahead there hours after he similarly grabbed a narrow advantage in Georgia. Biden also leads in Nevada, where he has remained ahead since Election Day.
“This election is not over. The false projection of Joe Biden as the winner is based on results in four states that are far from final,” Trump 2020 general counsel Matt Morgan asserted in a statement.
While Morgan is correct that the counts in each state are not yet final, the outstanding absentee ballots in each to-be-called state come largely from Democratic-leaning or heavily Democratic areas and have generally tilted toward Biden regardless of where they were cast.
But Morgan, like Trump and other allies, contended that fraud or other irregularities were to blame for the president’s sliding numbers as legal absentee ballots continue to be tallied.
Morgan argued that in Georgia, where Biden currently leads by a little over 1,000 votes, the race “is headed for a recount,” claiming the campaign is “confident we will find ballots improperly harvested” and that “President Trump will ultimately prevail” there. He offered no proof or evidence to back his claim.
In a news conference at the state capitol Thursday, Georgia voting system implementation manager Gabriel Sterling preemptively noted the state had not seen any evidence of widespread fraud or irregularities while counting votes.
“We’re investigating any credible accusation with any real evidence behind it,” he said. “But let me tell you one thing. When you have a narrow margin, little small things can make a difference. So everything will be investigated to protect the integrity of the vote.”
Morgan went on to claim that in Pennsylvania, where Biden now leads by around 6,800 votes, “there were many irregularities” and alluded to the campaign’s few successful legal challenges to allow their poll watchers closer access to ballot counting in Philadelphia and a deal likely to let more volunteers from the campaign observe the process.
But Morgan contended that in spite of those minor victories, the campaign was “deprived of valuable time and denied the transparency we are entitled to under state law,” though there has thus far been no evidence of fraud in the state.
In Nevada, where the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit on Thursday, “there appear to be thousands of individuals who improperly cast mail ballots,” Morgan alleged, though he did not provide evidence of that claim and Trump supporters refused to answer questions from reporters at a news conference Thursday announcing the suit.
Nevada’s attorney general dismissed the suit as a “Hail Mary attempt at undermining the vote,” according to The Nevada Independent, and the Registrar of Voters of Clark County, the Las Vegas county home to most of the state’s outstanding absentee ballots, said in a news conference Thursday that he was not aware of any ballots improperly cast.
In Arizona, where Biden currently leads by around 47,000 votes, Morgan claimed that Trump “is on course” to win the state “outright” and blasted Fox News and the Associated Press, which are the only major news outlets to have called Arizona for Biden.
A single win in either Georgia, Nevada or Pennsylvania would hand Biden the presidency. And while the former vice president has not claimed victory, as Trump falsely has, Biden has said over the past few days that he is confident in his standing once the tallies are finalized.
Still, Morgan accused Biden of laying a “phony claim on the White House,” vowing that “once the election is final, President Trump will be re-elected.”
I believe this article and Trump has to stop this Democrats corruption. Just look at this video of workers committing fraud by making false ballots. https://twitter.com/theca13/status/1324535036348145665?s=20
The election is NOT over! . . . There are COURT BATTLES over the ELECTION FRAUD going on and it needs to be INVESTIGATED, even a REVOTE under CLOSELY WATCHED situations needs to be done in affected states, to PREVENT this from happening AGAIN. The VOTER CHEATS need to be sent to FEDERAL PRISON for a LONG time. One WARY and SUSPICIOUS Patriot. Team Trump and his allies 2020.
Mail in ballots should not be allowed, because it increases the opportunity for greater fraud and how many people that voted were not eligible through lies and deceit. The list is miles long that encourages voter fraud
and cheating.
The wish of each State now rests with Republican Legislators. Not Big City machines. They send their Reps to Mitch McConnel in Open Chamber. in December. the final body is the House, each State has 1 vote. Most states are Republican. Much better than recounts and fraud.
Of COURSE there looks like they haven’t seen any ‘irregularities” in GOERGIA! . . . when you look a BLIND EYE to it and all the OTHER suspicious states and counties submitting their BALLOTS. Send the ELECTION CHEATS to FEDERAL PRISON – for a LONG time. This voter FRAUD is WAY too noticeable and APPARENT. One Wary And SUSPICIOUS Patriot. Team Trump and his allies 2020.
The United States may not survive as a nation with Joe Bite Me in the Oval Office. The democrat/communist party with their supporters in the news media will push to make abortion mandatory, religions will be forced to change their beliefs in order to make homosexual/lesbian behavior to be normal and let Satanism be equal to Jesus Christ. They don’t want there to be any opposition to their evil and baseless desires. May the Lord curse them for the evil desires they have and the sins that they will compel the average person to commit. Our desire to be free will not be crushed forever.
Please understand the state must send 2 names to the senate to represent their state at the Meeting of the electors. Most states have Republican legislators The House will break at tie with one vote per state. Much better then Fraud pursuit.
Why should this election be any different from the past four yrs, Democrats lied made up stories tried any and everything to get President Trump out of office. So why would we trust anything a Democrat would do or say.
Each state legislators now pick their 2 delegates to send to the Senate leader Mitch McConnell. The Electors then vote the will of their state. . If still tied it goes to the House where each state has 1 vote. The Republicans then have a simple majority of each chamber who legally follow the US Constitution. much better chance than recounts and fraud.
There has been tons of evidence from the past election and this election, Omar has been implicated in a ballot harvesting operation. The polling places kept republicans from observing the proceedings, 50 feet away from the action is not allowing them to observe. The law requires close observance so you can actually see whats happening. Not to mention the fact that Trump was ahead in 3 battleground states with no chance of Biden catching him in the wee hours of the morning and then Biden somehow magically surged ahead. I think not, something stinks in ballotville and it smells treasonous.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS MY PRESIDENT..