Joe Biden has narrow leads in Pennsylvania and Georgia, as Donald Trump doubles down on election ‘fraud’ allegations.
By Joseph Stepansky, Linah Alsaafin, Jihan Abdalla6 Nov 2020
- Americans continue to watch and wait to see who will be declared the winner of Tuesday’s presidential elections.
- Currently, Joe Biden is projected to have won 264 Electoral votes and President Donald Trump 214. The race goes to the contender with 270 votes.
- Trump on Thursday repeated voting fraud claims without evidence in his first address since Tuesday’s elections.
- Alaska, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania are still counting ballots and winners have not been projected in those states.
- Biden, who has urged patience, has taken the lead in Georgia and Pennsylvania.
- Arizona has been projected for Biden, but officials say mail-in ballots are still being counted.
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Protesters converge on Philadelphia vote counting centre
Pro-Trump protesters rallied outside the Philadelphia Convention Center Friday, responding to groundless accusations from Trump that the Democrats were trying to steal the White House.
Supporters of Democrat challenger Joe Biden held a counter-demonstration, some holding placards that read “Trump must concede”.
Vote counting for the US election was ongoing inside the center to determine the winner of key battleground state Pennsylvania. Pro-Trump protesters also gathered at the Maricopa County ballot counting centre in Arizona, another battleground where Biden maintains a lead
Trump tweets Biden should ‘not wrongfully claim the office of the president
Trump, who erroneously said he had won the election with only early results in on Wednesday morning, tweeted on Friday that Biden “should not wrongfully claim the office of the president”.
“I could make that claim also,” Trump said. “Legal proceedings are just now beginning!”
No winner has been projected so far in the contest, although Biden was leading in several key battleground states.
The Biden campaign has taken a cautious approach to the vote count, with no indication they planned to claim victory before it is certain there is no path to victory for Trump. Biden was set to address the country later on Friday night.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1324846580147642369&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com%2Fnews%2F2020%2F11%2F6%2Fbiden-calls-for-calm-trump-repeats-unproven-fraud-claim-live&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=550px
Twitter flags ‘president-elect Biden’ posts as premature
Twitter has flagged as premature posts referring to Joe Biden as “president-elect”, as the vote count continues in several battleground states.
Tweets referring to the former vice president with the victor’s title and his running mate Kamala Harris as “vice president-elect” were tagged with messages saying counts were not yet final. The Associated Press and other news agencies had not projected a winner of the election. Biden currently holds narrow leads in several key battleground states.
Official sources may not have called the race when this was tweeted,” read a Twitter message below a post from Democratic Coalition co-founder and podcaster Scott Dworkin using the two titles for Biden and Harris.
The notice came with a link to information about the status of the election. Twitter told the AFP news agency that the move was in line with its Civic Integrity Policy and in keeping with the position it has taken since the polls closed late on Tuesday.