Trump supporters swarmed a vote-counting centre in Detroit to 'stop the count'. The anti-Trump camp has launched its own protests, with some demanding a concession from US President Donald Trump. Palki Sharma Upadhyay tells you more about the chaos in America.

Gravitas: Chaos in the United States after results are delayed

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden took a narrow lead over President Donald Trump in the battleground state of Georgia for the first time early on Friday, putting the White House within his reach as it and other undecided states continue to count ballots.

Joe Biden moves into lead in Georgia, inches closer to White House

Donald Trump's campaign team have filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, where ballots are still being counted in races that are too close to call.

US ELECTION 2020 Update: Team Trump files lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia

<p>PHOENIX — In downtown Portland, Oregon, they shouted, “Count every vote!” At the Detroit convention center, they urged those tallying ballots to stop. And outside a Philadelphia vote-counting site, they said they just wanted to watch.</p>

<p>In a year defined by protests — for women’s rights and Black lives, against coronavirus lockdowns and police brutality — the presidential election brought even more demonstrators to the streets across America this week as days passed without a clear winner.</p>

<p>As former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to gain ground over President Donald Trump in the race to reach 270 electoral votes, protests broke out in hotly contested areas including Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Phoenix, where demonstrators said they were convinced the election was being stolen — a baseless claim that has circulated fiercely on social media, including on Trump's Twitter feed.</p>

<p>Protests also took place in areas where the results were settled, like New York, Portland, Washington and Miami, where the organizers — Latino Republican groups — offered a warning on a Facebook page called Stop the Steal: “They’re trying to steal this election from the President Donald J. Trump and we’re not going to let it happen.”</p>

<p>While sometimes tense — in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, the registrar said he had requested extra security at the election headquarters — the protests attracted a modest turnout.</p>

<p>But the effort may be just ramping up: The Stop the Steal Facebook page, a public group started by Trump supporters, mushroomed to more than 360,000 members within hours before it was shut down by Facebook. It had been teeming with conspiracy theories and demands to halt the vote-counting process.</p>

<p>Trump has long been laying the groundwork for doubts about the election results, saying without evidence that mail-in ballots were fraudulent and that the election would be rigged. Several protesters spoke of “illegal votes” and said they simply did not believe that Biden could have won in their state.</p>

<p>Republicans have complained that observers have been kept too far from counters to inspect ballots and ensure accuracy. In Philadelphia, Trump surrogates won a minor victory when a state appellate court ordered that observers be allowed to watch from 6 feet away instead of the previous 20 feet at the main Philadelphia canvassing area. Counterprotesters outside danced and wore shirts that said “Count Every Vote.”</p>

<p>In Atlanta, some 60 people gathered downtown with signs that read “No cheating” and “Four more years.” Drivers in cars passing by held their horns down in support and waved flags out of their windows.</p>

<p>“We want every legal vote to be counted,” said Chandler Crump, 16, a high school student from Atlanta. “I feel amazing being here. There’s a lot of patriotic proud American energy here.”</p>

<p>Simone Michaud, a stay-at-home mother from Marietta, an Atlanta suburb, said she was there to “represent women of color and females in general,” adding, “we have one of the best presidents.”</p>

<p>In Phoenix, about 50 protesters hoisted Trump signs and chanted “Stop the steal” outside City Hall. Several in the crowd were openly carrying rifles and handguns as police officers looked on.</p>

<p>“I’m here to tell the left there’s no way in hell they’re taking my guns,” said Josh Dawl, 35, who had both a .22-caliber rifle and a Winchester Model 1894 rifle. “Trump supports our constitutional rights. Biden does not.”</p>

<p>The protest in Phoenix on Thursday came as election officials scrambled to finish counting ballots. It followed a demonstration Wednesday night that was convened by Mike Cernovich, a far-right blogger and YouTube personality. At that protest, armed right-wing demonstrators repeatedly threatened journalists, to the point where sheriff’s deputies moved television crews inside the Maricopa County Elections Center.</p>

<p>On Thursday, Dale Williams, 70, a retired real estate broker, said he showed up to voice opposition to what he described as a Democratic attempt to steal the election, a claim that is not supported by facts.</p>

<p>“I absolutely believe Donald Trump won Arizona and won the country,” said Williams, who was carrying a concealed handgun that he brandished to a reporter. “We cannot let Democrats get away with fraud.”</p>

<p>Outside the convention center in Detroit, where absentee ballots were being counted, a lone Black Lives Matter protester took a knee in the street, blocking an SUV that was decked out in Trump flags and towing a human-sized Statue of Liberty, with a sign that said, “Build the wall.”</p>

<p>The kneeler, Angelo Austin, who wore a mask that said “Detroit,” exchanged heated words with the demonstrators and blocked the SUV until the police asked him to move.</p>

<p>“We’re still fighting to breathe,” he said, yelling at the group while some Trump supporters called him racist and raised their voices, telling him: “It’s not about race.”</p>

<p>Austin, who is Black, scoffed. “My grandparents helped build this city,” he said, adding that most of the people who showed up to contest the votes were from outside of Detroit.</p>

<p>Many at the rally said that as they watched the votes come in from Detroit on Wednesday — helping flip the state of Michigan to Biden — they increasingly thought election fraud had been committed.</p>

<p>“The MAGA army is not going to let our vote, democracy, be stolen,” said Mark Conway, 61, who had driven from Macomb County on Wednesday after hearing on the radio that Republican poll watchers were needed.</p>

<p>He stayed at the center for several hours before leaving and returning with his son, only to be told that he could not re-enter. “They said that because of COVID, the capacity was reached,” he said.</p>

<p>Entry was “temporarily frozen” with more than 550 election challengers, half of them Republicans, already inside the center, a city official said.</p>

<p>Conway remained outside until about 9 p.m. Wednesday. After dark, the challengers demanded that the poll workers stop counting the votes, and sporadic chants of “Let us in” broke out.</p>

<p>Conway returned Thursday morning to continue to support Trump. “We want every legal vote counted, and I believe that he got more legal votes than anybody has ever gotten,” Conway said, adding that the shift in Biden’s favor overnight, as more votes were counted, wasn’t “credible.”</p>

<p>“The polls were fake, the news was fake, the votes are fake, and the candidate is fake,” he said.</p>

<p>Becky De Nooy came to the rally from Grand Rapids with her daughter, Emma, and said she, too, was distrustful of what she viewed as a surge of ballots suddenly showing up for Democrats.</p>

<p>“That should be suggesting that there’s something amiss,” De Nooy, 49, said. Her daughter added: “Not having a fair election, we cease to be a democratic republic.”</p>

<p>Across the country, there were also people who took to the streets out of alarm for Trump’s claim of victory before the votes had been counted.</p>

<p>In Washington, there were newly installed concrete vehicle barriers at the Black Lives Matter plaza near the White House, signaling that the city was preparing for larger crowds in an area where demonstrators have been watching results trickle in on a large screen.</p>

<p>A brief standoff broke out Thursday afternoon outside of the Republican National Committee headquarters between dozens of Trump supporters and a small group chanting “Black lives matter.”</p>

<p>As the police set up a barricade, the president’s supporters responded by yelling “Legal votes matter,” “All lives matter” and “Does your life matter?”</p>

<p>Flor Cerrato, an accountant from Los Angeles in a pink Trump cap and red Trump mask, said she came to the protest because she believed that the president had “already won by landslide.”</p>

<p>“Why don’t they just let it go,” she said while holding a “Latinos-Americans 4 Trump” sign. “They’re trying to switch the numbers around.”</p>

<p>Republican leaders appeared at some protests reviving oft-used claims of irregularities that have in the past been debunked or shown to be greatly exaggerated. Outside a nondescript warehouse in North Las Vegas where most of the uncounted votes in Clark County remain, they erected a podium in the street.</p>

<p>Broadcasting on a hastily announced livestream, the former Nevada attorney general, Adam Laxalt, said Republicans had filed a lawsuit after discovering evidence of dead people and out-of-state voters illegally casting ballots in Nevada — but he did not provide any specifics to support those claims.</p>

<p>“We’re asking the judge to, due to all of these irregularities, to stop the counting of improper votes,” he said.</p>

<p>Laxalt was joined by Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, and Ric Grenell, former acting director of national intelligence.</p>

<p>Dozens of flag-waving Trump supporters looked on, and trucks with Trump flags circled the block, some gunning their engines and honking their horns.</p>

<p>Grenell refused to answer questions, telling reporters, “Listen, you are here to take in information.” As reporters shouted questions, the speakers got into a van and drove away.</p>


PHOENIX — In downtown Portland, Oregon, they shouted, “Count every vote!” At the Detroit convention center, they urged those tallying ballots to stop. And outside a Philadelphia vote-counting site, they said they just wanted to watch.

PHOENIX — In downtown Portland, Oregon, they shouted, “Count every vote!” At the Detroit convention center, they urged those tallying ballots to stop. And outside a Philadelphia vote-counting site, they said they just wanted to watch. In a year defined by protests — for women’s rights and Black lives, against coronavirus lockdowns and police brutality — the presidential election brought even more demonstrators to the streets across America this week as days passed without a clear winner. As former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to gain ground over President Donald Trump in the race to reach 270 electoral votes, protests broke out in hotly contested areas including Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Phoenix, where demonstrators said they were convinced the election was being stolen — a baseless claim that has circulated fiercely on social media, including on Trump's Twitter feed. Protests also took place in areas where the results were settled, like New York, Portland, Washington and Miami, where the organizers — Latino Republican groups — offered a warning on a Facebook page called Stop the Steal: “They’re trying to steal this election from the President Donald J. Trump and we’re not going to let it happen.” While sometimes tense — in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, the registrar said he had requested extra security at the election headquarters — the protests attracted a modest turnout. But the effort may be just ramping up: The Stop the Steal Facebook page, a public group started by Trump supporters, mushroomed to more than 360,000 members within hours before it was shut down by Facebook. It had been teeming with conspiracy theories and demands to halt the vote-counting process. Trump has long been laying the groundwork for doubts about the election results, saying without evidence that mail-in ballots were fraudulent and that the election would be rigged. Several protesters spoke of “illegal votes” and said they simply did not believe that Biden could have won in their state. Republicans have complained that observers have been kept too far from counters to inspect ballots and ensure accuracy. In Philadelphia, Trump surrogates won a minor victory when a state appellate court ordered that observers be allowed to watch from 6 feet away instead of the previous 20 feet at the main Philadelphia canvassing area. Counterprotesters outside danced and wore shirts that said “Count Every Vote.” In Atlanta, some 60 people gathered downtown with signs that read “No cheating” and “Four more years.” Drivers in cars passing by held their horns down in support and waved flags out of their windows. “We want every legal vote to be counted,” said Chandler Crump, 16, a high school student from Atlanta. “I feel amazing being here. There’s a lot of patriotic proud American energy here.” Simone Michaud, a stay-at-home mother from Marietta, an Atlanta suburb, said she was there to “represent women of color and females in general,” adding, “we have one of the best presidents.” In Phoenix, about 50 protesters hoisted Trump signs and chanted “Stop the steal” outside City Hall. Several in the crowd were openly carrying rifles and handguns as police officers looked on. “I’m here to tell the left there’s no way in hell they’re taking my guns,” said Josh Dawl, 35, who had both a .22-caliber rifle and a Winchester Model 1894 rifle. “Trump supports our constitutional rights. Biden does not.” The protest in Phoenix on Thursday came as election officials scrambled to finish counting ballots. It followed a demonstration Wednesday night that was convened by Mike Cernovich, a far-right blogger and YouTube personality. At that protest, armed right-wing demonstrators repeatedly threatened journalists, to the point where sheriff’s deputies moved television crews inside the Maricopa County Elections Center. On Thursday, Dale Williams, 70, a retired real estate broker, said he showed up to voice opposition to what he described as a Democratic attempt to steal the election, a claim that is not supported by facts. “I absolutely believe Donald Trump won Arizona and won the country,” said Williams, who was carrying a concealed handgun that he brandished to a reporter. “We cannot let Democrats get away with fraud.” Outside the convention center in Detroit, where absentee ballots were being counted, a lone Black Lives Matter protester took a knee in the street, blocking an SUV that was decked out in Trump flags and towing a human-sized Statue of Liberty, with a sign that said, “Build the wall.” The kneeler, Angelo Austin, who wore a mask that said “Detroit,” exchanged heated words with the demonstrators and blocked the SUV until the police asked him to move. “We’re still fighting to breathe,” he said, yelling at the group while some Trump supporters called him racist and raised their voices, telling him: “It’s not about race.” Austin, who is Black, scoffed. “My grandparents helped build this city,” he said, adding that most of the people who showed up to contest the votes were from outside of Detroit. Many at the rally said that as they watched the votes come in from Detroit on Wednesday — helping flip the state of Michigan to Biden — they increasingly thought election fraud had been committed. “The MAGA army is not going to let our vote, democracy, be stolen,” said Mark Conway, 61, who had driven from Macomb County on Wednesday after hearing on the radio that Republican poll watchers were needed. He stayed at the center for several hours before leaving and returning with his son, only to be told that he could not re-enter. “They said that because of COVID, the capacity was reached,” he said. Entry was “temporarily frozen” with more than 550 election challengers, half of them Republicans, already inside the center, a city official said. Conway remained outside until about 9 p.m. Wednesday. After dark, the challengers demanded that the poll workers stop counting the votes, and sporadic chants of “Let us in” broke out. Conway returned Thursday morning to continue to support Trump. “We want every legal vote counted, and I believe that he got more legal votes than anybody has ever gotten,” Conway said, adding that the shift in Biden’s favor overnight, as more votes were counted, wasn’t “credible.” “The polls were fake, the news was fake, the votes are fake, and the candidate is fake,” he said. Becky De Nooy came to the rally from Grand Rapids with her daughter, Emma, and said she, too, was distrustful of what she viewed as a surge of ballots suddenly showing up for Democrats. “That should be suggesting that there’s something amiss,” De Nooy, 49, said. Her daughter added: “Not having a fair election, we cease to be a democratic republic.” Across the country, there were also people who took to the streets out of alarm for Trump’s claim of victory before the votes had been counted. In Washington, there were newly installed concrete vehicle barriers at the Black Lives Matter plaza near the White House, signaling that the city was preparing for larger crowds in an area where demonstrators have been watching results trickle in on a large screen. A brief standoff broke out Thursday afternoon outside of the Republican National Committee headquarters between dozens of Trump supporters and a small group chanting “Black lives matter.” As the police set up a barricade, the president’s supporters responded by yelling “Legal votes matter,” “All lives matter” and “Does your life matter?” Flor Cerrato, an accountant from Los Angeles in a pink Trump cap and red Trump mask, said she came to the protest because she believed that the president had “already won by landslide.” “Why don’t they just let it go,” she said while holding a “Latinos-Americans 4 Trump” sign. “They’re trying to switch the numbers around.” Republican leaders appeared at some protests reviving oft-used claims of irregularities that have in the past been debunked or shown to be greatly exaggerated. Outside a nondescript warehouse in North Las Vegas where most of the uncounted votes in Clark County remain, they erected a podium in the street. Broadcasting on a hastily announced livestream, the former Nevada attorney general, Adam Laxalt, said Republicans had filed a lawsuit after discovering evidence of dead people and out-of-state voters illegally casting ballots in Nevada — but he did not provide any specifics to support those claims. “We’re asking the judge to, due to all of these irregularities, to stop the counting of improper votes,” he said. Laxalt was joined by Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, and Ric Grenell, former acting director of national intelligence. Dozens of flag-waving Trump supporters looked on, and trucks with Trump flags circled the block, some gunning their engines and honking their horns. Grenell refused to answer questions, telling reporters, “Listen, you are here to take in information.” As reporters shouted questions, the speakers got into a van and drove away.

In a year of protest cries, now it’s ‘count every vote!’ and ‘stop the steal!’

Some Republicans in United States criticized President Donald Trump’s unsupported claim that Democrats are trying to steal the election.

US ELECTION 2020: Top Republicans distance themselves from Trump's statements

<p>Yup, I wanted a grand rebuke, too. I wanted Donald Trump demolished by 10 points. But elections are educational events. Voters are not always wise, but they are usually comprehensible. They know more about their own lives than we in our information bubbles do, and they almost always tell us something important.</p>

<p>The first thing we heard from most Americans — since Joe Biden’s popular vote victory seems all but certain — is that Trump is unacceptable. We live in a divided, dug-in nation, but millions more white evangelicals voted Democratic in 2020 than in 2016. Many people voted against partisan predilections to remove a man who is a unique menace to the foundations of this country. That is no meager accomplishment.</p>

<p>The second thing voters told us is this: Separate church and state. We’ve long had political polarization in this country and we still will. But over the last few years polarization has transmogrified into something worse: a religious war.</p>

<p>Trumpism and Wokeism are not equivalent phenomena, but they both serve as secular religions for their disciples. They offer a binary logic of good and evil, a cultlike membership experience, apocalyptic or utopian visions, witch trials for the excommunication of the impure and the sense of personal meaning that comes while fighting a holy war.</p>

<p>In different ways, voters told the two parties that they’d like our politics to be about practical issues. If you want a religious war, go have it somewhere else.</p>

<p>They told Republicans, for example, that you will be much stronger without the MAGA craziness. The Republican Party had a much better election than Trump. While Trump is losing, Republicans have picked up six House seats so far. The Democrats have yet to flip a single state legislature, meaning Republicans will draw the district lines for the next 10 years of electioneering.</p>

<p>The image of a possible future GOP emerged — a multiracial working-class party. Republicans made surprising gains among Latinos, African Americans and Muslims. Trump won the largest share of the nonwhite vote of any Republican candidate in 60 years. That wasn’t done by Trumpian race-baiting but because of the party’s reputation for championing personal agency and personal responsibility, and for boosting small businesses and economic growth. That can be built on.</p>

<p>Meanwhile, voters told Democrats that they, too, would benefit if they played up policy and played down cultural concerns of their Portlandia/graduate-schooled/defund-the-police wing.</p>

<p>If there was ever going to be a Democratic blowout election, this was it — against an immoral candidate with a criminally incompetent record. But Democrats failed to pull it off.</p>

<p>It’s not policies that cost Democrats. The core Biden policies are astoundingly popular. It’s that they’ve built a cultural blue wall that keeps the other half of the country out, no matter the circumstance.</p>

<p>They’ve done it by telling a certain sort of story. American politics, progressives commonly say, is all about the historical shift from homogeneity to diversity. They see America as divided between those enlightened cosmopolitans (Democrats) who welcome the coming diverse postindustrial world and those knuckle-dragging, racist troglodytes (Republicans) who don’t.</p>

<p>The first problem with this narrative is that it is perpetually surprised by events. Election after election, the emerging Democratic majority fails to emerge. The second problem is that it oversimplifies the different processes going on in America. Somehow, we have to have the racial reckoning, which is essential, while we understand the other mega-narratives people feel are driving their lives. Third, it’s just astonishingly smug, self-congratulatory and off-putting.</p>

<p>The voters have handed us a political system that will be led, probably, by Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell. These are not culture warriors. They are politicians and legislators.</p>

<p>We now have two parties whose best version of themselves is as working-class parties. Maybe the next few years can be a partisan competition over who is best for Americans without college degrees.</p>

<p>Would divided government devolve into gridlock? Maybe. McConnell will do whatever is in Republicans' best interests in 2022. But I’m not so sure. America is bitterly divided on cultural matters, but it is getting less divided over economic policy. Populism has weakened the GOP’s anti-government wing and opened senators like Marco Rubio, Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton and others to ideas that call for more federal involvement in industry. For some that includes worker training, for others, an infrastructure bank, wage subsidies or R&amp;amp;D industrial policy.</p>

<p>The voters reminded us yet again that the other side is not going away. We have to dispense with the fantasy that after the next miracle election our side will suddenly get everything it wants. We have to live with one another.</p>

<p>The key is loosening the grip the culture war has had on our politics and governance. Let’s fight our moral difference with books, sermons, movies and marches, not with political coercion.</p>


Yup, I wanted a grand rebuke, too. I wanted Donald Trump demolished by 10 points. But elections are educational events. Voters are not always wise, but they are usually comprehensible.

Yup, I wanted a grand rebuke, too. I wanted Donald Trump demolished by 10 points. But elections are educational events. Voters are not always wise, but they are usually comprehensible. They know more about their own lives than we in our information bubbles do, and they almost always tell us something important. The first thing we heard from most Americans — since Joe Biden’s popular vote victory seems all but certain — is that Trump is unacceptable. We live in a divided, dug-in nation, but millions more white evangelicals voted Democratic in 2020 than in 2016. Many people voted against partisan predilections to remove a man who is a unique menace to the foundations of this country. That is no meager accomplishment. The second thing voters told us is this: Separate church and state. We’ve long had political polarization in this country and we still will. But over the last few years polarization has transmogrified into something worse: a religious war. Trumpism and Wokeism are not equivalent phenomena, but they both serve as secular religions for their disciples. They offer a binary logic of good and evil, a cultlike membership experience, apocalyptic or utopian visions, witch trials for the excommunication of the impure and the sense of personal meaning that comes while fighting a holy war. In different ways, voters told the two parties that they’d like our politics to be about practical issues. If you want a religious war, go have it somewhere else. They told Republicans, for example, that you will be much stronger without the MAGA craziness. The Republican Party had a much better election than Trump. While Trump is losing, Republicans have picked up six House seats so far. The Democrats have yet to flip a single state legislature, meaning Republicans will draw the district lines for the next 10 years of electioneering. The image of a possible future GOP emerged — a multiracial working-class party. Republicans made surprising gains among Latinos, African Americans and Muslims. Trump won the largest share of the nonwhite vote of any Republican candidate in 60 years. That wasn’t done by Trumpian race-baiting but because of the party’s reputation for championing personal agency and personal responsibility, and for boosting small businesses and economic growth. That can be built on. Meanwhile, voters told Democrats that they, too, would benefit if they played up policy and played down cultural concerns of their Portlandia/graduate-schooled/defund-the-police wing. If there was ever going to be a Democratic blowout election, this was it — against an immoral candidate with a criminally incompetent record. But Democrats failed to pull it off. It’s not policies that cost Democrats. The core Biden policies are astoundingly popular. It’s that they’ve built a cultural blue wall that keeps the other half of the country out, no matter the circumstance. They’ve done it by telling a certain sort of story. American politics, progressives commonly say, is all about the historical shift from homogeneity to diversity. They see America as divided between those enlightened cosmopolitans (Democrats) who welcome the coming diverse postindustrial world and those knuckle-dragging, racist troglodytes (Republicans) who don’t. The first problem with this narrative is that it is perpetually surprised by events. Election after election, the emerging Democratic majority fails to emerge. The second problem is that it oversimplifies the different processes going on in America. Somehow, we have to have the racial reckoning, which is essential, while we understand the other mega-narratives people feel are driving their lives. Third, it’s just astonishingly smug, self-congratulatory and off-putting. The voters have handed us a political system that will be led, probably, by Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell. These are not culture warriors. They are politicians and legislators. We now have two parties whose best version of themselves is as working-class parties. Maybe the next few years can be a partisan competition over who is best for Americans without college degrees. Would divided government devolve into gridlock? Maybe. McConnell will do whatever is in Republicans' best interests in 2022. But I’m not so sure. America is bitterly divided on cultural matters, but it is getting less divided over economic policy. Populism has weakened the GOP’s anti-government wing and opened senators like Marco Rubio, Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton and others to ideas that call for more federal involvement in industry. For some that includes worker training, for others, an infrastructure bank, wage subsidies or R&amp;D industrial policy. The voters reminded us yet again that the other side is not going away. We have to dispense with the fantasy that after the next miracle election our side will suddenly get everything it wants. We have to live with one another. The key is loosening the grip the culture war has had on our politics and governance. Let’s fight our moral difference with books, sermons, movies and marches, not with political coercion.

What the voters are trying to tell us

The first public appearance since early morning hours after election days, Donald Trump claimed that the Democrats are stealing the election.

US ELECTION 2020 Results Update: Trump lashes out with fraud claims as Biden nears victory

Facebook has said that it has taken down rapidly growing Pro-Trump group from their site for posting violent, rhetoric & also baseless claims that the democrats are stealing the election.

US ELECTION 2020: Facebook bans 'Stop the steal' group over calls for violence

The presidential election predictions from the key states sparks protests & demonstrations in several cities of the United States. WION brings you a report.

US ELECTION 2020: Protests over vote counting as US awaits result

President Donald Trump's campaign lost court rulings in the closely contested states of Georgia and Michigan, even as it vowed to bring a new lawsuit challenging what it called voting irregularities in Nevada.

US ELECTION 2020: Trump loses court battles in Georgia & Michigan

The first public appearance since early morning hours after election days, Donald Trump claimed that the Democrats are not winning but stealing the election. According to Trump if they count only legal votes then it's quite clear that he is the one who is winning.

US ELECTION 2020: Bleak odds for Trump winning presidency

<p>The US President Donald Trump took the news world by surprise as he gave an address that people called “false” as he spoke of Democrats using "illegal votes" to "steal the election from us." In a strong reaction to his 17-minute address, many US Tv channels halted the live coverage of the president which was his first public appearance since the election night.</p>

<p>Apart from the TV channels, Hollywood celebs too slammed Trump for his “false statements” as one star said it was "come-to-life toilet spew" and "stunning, unhinged, breathtaking" as the presidential race was still too close to call.</p>

<p>In the speech from the White House, Trump said there were "illegal" votes in the 2020 presidential contest and that he had won the election. He said that Republicans were pulling ahead "despite historic election interference from big media, big money, big tech" and that pollsters "got it knowingly wrong." He added that pollsters' erroneous work was "suppression."</p>

<p>Soon after the address was telecast, ‘Avengers’ star Mark Ruffalo tweeted, "There is not a single shred of evidence to anything Trump is claiming. It's all lies and it's not going to go anywhere with the courts he has lost all but one lawsuit because he has no credible claims." He added, "Trump just whined, then lied, then whined, then lied, &nbsp;and then ran away. #TrumpMeltdown."</p>

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<p>‘Captain America’ star Chris Evans also wrote, "Wow. Hey Republicans, are you listening to this come-to-life toilet spew complete lies about the integrity of our democratic process?"</p>

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<p>Michael Moore called the speech "stunning, unhinged, breathtaking." He tweeted, "Wild accusations. Saying 'Detroit' the way White people do. A danger to America &amp; the world, a menace to society. The next time you see him, his name will be Lame Duck. Quack."</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Stunning, unhinged, breathtaking appearance just now at the WH. Wild accusations. Saying “Detroit” the way White people do. A danger to America &amp; the world, a menace to society. The next time you see him, his name will be Lame Duck. Quack.<br />
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<p>‘Beauty and the Beast’ actor Josh Gad said, "He began by calling Mexicans rapists. How did you think it would end?" Of the speech, The View co-host Sunny Hostin wrote, "Sad to see the President of the United States attacking the very foundation of our democracy and attempting to drag the country down with him."</p>

<p>Paul Feig thanked the poll workers and wrote, "The President might not appreciate your selfless work but the rest of us do. You are all true patriots and we can never thank you enough.”</p>

<p>Some media outlets, including ABC, NBC, MSNBC and USA Today, stopped airing his address mid-speech.&nbsp;</p>

<p>‘Star Trek’ actor George Takei praised NBC for their decision to cut away from the address, tweeting, "That's how you cover him, then you cut away. Thanks NBC!"</p>


The US President Donald Trump took the news world by surprise as he gave an address that people called “false” as he spoke of Democrats using "illegal votes" to "steal the election from us.

The US President Donald Trump took the news world by surprise as he gave an address that people called “false” as he spoke of Democrats using "illegal votes" to "steal the election from us." In a strong reaction to his 17-minute address, many US Tv channels halted the live coverage of the president which was his first public appearance since the election night. Apart from the TV channels, Hollywood celebs too slammed Trump for his “false statements” as one star said it was "come-to-life toilet spew" and "stunning, unhinged, breathtaking" as the presidential race was still too close to call. In the speech from the White House, Trump said there were "illegal" votes in the 2020 presidential contest and that he had won the election. He said that Republicans were pulling ahead "despite historic election interference from big media, big money, big tech" and that pollsters "got it knowingly wrong." He added that pollsters' erroneous work was "suppression." Soon after the address was telecast, ‘Avengers’ star Mark Ruffalo tweeted, "There is not a single shred of evidence to anything Trump is claiming. It's all lies and it's not going to go anywhere with the courts he has lost all but one lawsuit because he has no credible claims." He added, "Trump just whined, then lied, then whined, then lied, and then ran away. #TrumpMeltdown." There is not a single shred of evidence to anything Trump is claiming. It's all lies and it's not going to go anywhere with the courts he has lost all but one lawsuit because he has no credible claims. — Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) November 6, 2020 × Trump just whined, then lied, then whined, then lied, and then ran away. #TrumpMeltdown — Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) November 6, 2020 × ‘Captain America’ star Chris Evans also wrote, "Wow. Hey Republicans, are you listening to this come-to-life toilet spew complete lies about the integrity of our democratic process?" Wow. Hey Republicans, are you listening to this come-to-life toilet spew complete lies about the integrity of our democratic process? — Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) November 6, 2020 × Michael Moore called the speech "stunning, unhinged, breathtaking." He tweeted, "Wild accusations. Saying 'Detroit' the way White people do. A danger to America & the world, a menace to society. The next time you see him, his name will be Lame Duck. Quack." Stunning, unhinged, breathtaking appearance just now at the WH. Wild accusations. Saying “Detroit” the way White people do. A danger to America & the world, a menace to society. The next time you see him, his name will be Lame Duck. Quack. (Photo just taken) credit:AP/@evanvucci pic.twitter.com/t5JFYFRCnv — Michael Moore (@MMFlint) November 6, 2020 × ‘Beauty and the Beast’ actor Josh Gad said, "He began by calling Mexicans rapists. How did you think it would end?" Of the speech, The View co-host Sunny Hostin wrote, "Sad to see the President of the United States attacking the very foundation of our democracy and attempting to drag the country down with him." Paul Feig thanked the poll workers and wrote, "The President might not appreciate your selfless work but the rest of us do. You are all true patriots and we can never thank you enough.” Some media outlets, including ABC, NBC, MSNBC and USA Today, stopped airing his address mid-speech. ‘Star Trek’ actor George Takei praised NBC for their decision to cut away from the address, tweeting, "That's how you cover him, then you cut away. Thanks NBC!"

Hollywood stars slam Trump for 'false' speech on US elections 2020

<p>Social media is our digital <em>paan ki dukaan</em>. People go there for “masala,” news, gossip. Some rue the state of the world. Others pontificate on the way forward. Everyone is an expert on everything. Some are perpetual fixtures, smoking on daily happenings and ruminating. Others make regular visits.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The new topic of discussion is the US election. Unfortunately for some, only Americans get the voting rights.&nbsp;</p>

<p>If tweets from India were votes, Donald Trump would have won hands down. Troll armies from one side have dedicated their energies into projecting Trump as India’s best friend. It doesn’t matter that he called India’s air filthy (because he’s right, but don’t talk about banning Diwali crackers!). It doesn’t matter that he offered to mediate in the Kashmir issue, despite Delhi repeatedly saying 'thanks, but no thanks'.</p>

<p>It doesn’t even matter that he mocked India’s contribution in Afghanistan (“India only built a library”). It doesn’t matter that he’s blocking H1B visas or picking fights over taxes on Harley Davidson.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Like Salman Khan, once we’ve decided we like Trump, we don’t even listen to ourselves. So we campaign for Trump. Call Biden a crook, pore over evidence against Hunter Biden, and slam American media that doesn’t appreciate the greatness Trump <em>ji</em> is trying to usher in.</p>

<p>Election day comes. Americans vote. And count. And keep counting for what feels like forever. Indian social media busies itself with another debate to kill time. This oldest democracy is a joke, learn from us, we say. America is floundering, because they learned counting on Sesame street.&nbsp;</p>

<p>India’s election commission is underrated, but the best in the world. Pronto, the other side jumps in. They’re taking so long because they’re fair. Every vote is being counted. Trump says stop the counting. Biden says count every vote. Indians are still debating who counts better. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Day Two -- Trump cries election fraud. Some American channels pull out of the president’s speech. Such moral rectitude! Can Indian channels ever pull this off?</p>

<p>Most of those asking this question are senior journalists themselves. Others say the US press is party to a political battle.</p>

<p>If you’re on social media you have only two options. Either put all things American on a pedestal. Or trash all. Those doing a little bit of both will be beaten up by both sides.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The fact is that America has the most partisan media in the world. Acting as cheerleaders of any presidential hopeful is not “evolved” journalism. Calling your president “an obese turtle” is not proof of fairness. And cutting out of a presidential speech is, at best, dramatic.</p>

<p>India media takes sides too. Picks and chooses which speech to broadcast and for how long. Journalists in India trash and praise leaders of all descriptions, some more than the other.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Commentary is alright. Denigrating the other side isn’t. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Some have such a volume of opinion that it won’t fit in a tweet or a thread. They need a whole write up to achieve catharsis.&nbsp;</p>

<p>If you’ve made it thus far in this piece, do know that I’m a regular visitor of the aforesaid paan shop, addicted to its wares, and trying to make sense of the madness. It’s a place crawling with <em>Abdullahs</em> of the <em>begaani-shaadi-mein-Abdullah-diwana </em>fame.&nbsp;</p>


Social media is our digital paan ki dukaan. People go there for “masala,” news, gossip. Some rue the state of the world. Others pontificate on the way forward. Everyone is an expert on everything.

Social media is our digital paan ki dukaan. People go there for “masala,” news, gossip. Some rue the state of the world. Others pontificate on the way forward. Everyone is an expert on everything. Some are perpetual fixtures, smoking on daily happenings and ruminating. Others make regular visits. The new topic of discussion is the US election. Unfortunately for some, only Americans get the voting rights. If tweets from India were votes, Donald Trump would have won hands down. Troll armies from one side have dedicated their energies into projecting Trump as India’s best friend. It doesn’t matter that he called India’s air filthy (because he’s right, but don’t talk about banning Diwali crackers!). It doesn’t matter that he offered to mediate in the Kashmir issue, despite Delhi repeatedly saying 'thanks, but no thanks'. It doesn’t even matter that he mocked India’s contribution in Afghanistan (“India only built a library”). It doesn’t matter that he’s blocking H1B visas or picking fights over taxes on Harley Davidson. Like Salman Khan, once we’ve decided we like Trump, we don’t even listen to ourselves. So we campaign for Trump. Call Biden a crook, pore over evidence against Hunter Biden, and slam American media that doesn’t appreciate the greatness Trump ji is trying to usher in. Election day comes. Americans vote. And count. And keep counting for what feels like forever. Indian social media busies itself with another debate to kill time. This oldest democracy is a joke, learn from us, we say. America is floundering, because they learned counting on Sesame street. India’s election commission is underrated, but the best in the world. Pronto, the other side jumps in. They’re taking so long because they’re fair. Every vote is being counted. Trump says stop the counting. Biden says count every vote. Indians are still debating who counts better. Day Two -- Trump cries election fraud. Some American channels pull out of the president’s speech. Such moral rectitude! Can Indian channels ever pull this off? Most of those asking this question are senior journalists themselves. Others say the US press is party to a political battle. If you’re on social media you have only two options. Either put all things American on a pedestal. Or trash all. Those doing a little bit of both will be beaten up by both sides. The fact is that America has the most partisan media in the world. Acting as cheerleaders of any presidential hopeful is not “evolved” journalism. Calling your president “an obese turtle” is not proof of fairness. And cutting out of a presidential speech is, at best, dramatic. India media takes sides too. Picks and chooses which speech to broadcast and for how long. Journalists in India trash and praise leaders of all descriptions, some more than the other. Commentary is alright. Denigrating the other side isn’t. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Some have such a volume of opinion that it won’t fit in a tweet or a thread. They need a whole write up to achieve catharsis. If you’ve made it thus far in this piece, do know that I’m a regular visitor of the aforesaid paan shop, addicted to its wares, and trying to make sense of the madness. It’s a place crawling with Abdullahs of the begaani-shaadi-mein-Abdullah-diwana fame.

The US election on Indian social media

The situation of the election in the United States continues to remain tense and the world is waiting eagerly to see the next president of the United States. Over the last several months, the world's largest economy has seen it all: from becoming the world's worst-hit coronavirus country, widespread protests, riots and violence related to racism and President Donald Trump's erratic presidency and unverified claims.

The situation of the election in the United States continues to remain tense and the world is waiting eagerly to see the next president of the United States. Over the last several months, the world's largest economy has seen it all: from becoming the world's worst-hit coronavirus country, widespread protests, riots and violence related to racism and President Donald Trump's erratic presidency and unverified claims. The record voting through postal ballots meant that the declaration of results will take a considerable amount of time and that is why even after nearly three days, we don't know who the next president would be. However, social media has kept Americans busy as the medium is helping them crack some jokes and lessen the intensity of a tightly-fought election. In a reference to the worn-out method of files getting downloaded in times when internet speed used to be slow in the era of internet explorer, an Instagram account by the name of Oatmeal shared an image of votes getting counted and time remaining is several minutes. View this post on Instagram A post shared by theoatmeal (@theoatmeal) on Nov 4, 2020 at 8:58am PST × Good morning! Looking forward to another day of this.😭#ElectionResults2020 #Elections2020 #thursdaymorning pic.twitter.com/a4FnKtCOQp — Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) November 5, 2020 × Nevada AG Aaron Ford responds to people sharing a meme joking that the Zootopia sloth is who is counting ballots in Nevada: "my friend @Bakari_Sellers tweeted about it and I told him he aint right about that." Adds "we're doing to the best we can," "it's going to take some time" pic.twitter.com/scbtNSDk3t — Cheyenne Haslett (@cheyennehaslett) November 5, 2020 × Many users also trolled Nevada, which is one of the key states that has not completed its counting, with one person sharing a video making fun of election officials and the background music running: "I don't really want to work today". View this post on Instagram Nevada left the chat A post shared by Saint Hoax (@sainthoax) on Nov 4, 2020 at 6:54pm PST × nevada after counting 1 ballot an hour pic.twitter.com/2i8JycJtLt — joe (@jxeker) November 5, 2020 × me driving to nevada to count those votes myself #Elections2020 pic.twitter.com/u6h5CBEMUt — rosina :p (@r0sinab) November 4, 2020 × The counting remains on the states of Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Alaska and since none of the contenders has an outright lead, these states will decide the next American president.

Americans share hilarious posts as election counting saga continues

<p>The hugely contentious US presidential election has come down to four states -- Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia and Nevada -- deciding the victor.</p>

<p>Since the November 3 vote, the incumbent president, Donald Trump, at his post-election rallies, has called for ballot counting to be stopped, and contended without proof there has been voter fraud -- so much so that several US TV networks late Thursday halted live coverage of his first public appearance since election night.</p>

<p>The networks conclude that the president was spreading disinformation.</p>

<p>Trump spoke as late vote counting in battleground states showed Democrat Joe Biden steadily closing in on victory.&nbsp;</p>

<p>"They are trying to steal the election," an increasingly isolated Trump said in an extraordinary appearance at the White House on Thursday, two days after polls closed.</p>

<p>At the event, CNN's Jim Acosta taunted Trump as he stormed off stage following his 17-minute tirade about being cheated out of winning the election.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Trump didn't answer a single question as several reporters demanded answers from him, including Acosta who asked: 'Are you being a sore loser?'&nbsp;</p>

<p>Trump ignored Acosta's question and walked out the door following the press conference -- after claiming the entire election process was rigged against him from start to finish.</p>

<p>Trump, whose campaign has launched lawsuits in several battleground states, noted the polls got the election wrong -- just like the 'phony polls' did in 2016.</p>

<p>The incumbent president has even cried foul on Twitter. But his tweets have often been masked with notices telling people the claims are misleading.</p>

<p>Trump's meltdown on Twitter has also met with some interesting responses.</p>

<p><em><strong>(Warning: Light content. Feel free to laugh, only if Trump isn't watching :))</strong></em></p>

<p>Must say Greta Thunberg knows how to give it back ;)</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">So ridiculous. Donald must work on his Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Donald, Chill! <a href="https://t.co/4RNVBqRYBA">https://t.co/4RNVBqRYBA</a></p>
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1324439705522524162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">HOW IT STARTED / HOW ITS GOING <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpMeltdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpMeltdown</a> <a href="https://t.co/J8jpmCc2zo">pic.twitter.com/J8jpmCc2zo</a></p>
— Zain (@souvenirsexile) <a href="https://twitter.com/souvenirsexile/status/1324545254352162817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p><em><strong>I'm not crying. You are :'(</strong></em></p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">This video encapsulates everything going on with Donald Trump at the moment. Epic!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpMeltdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpMeltdown</a> <a href="https://t.co/WOb2uVddOw">pic.twitter.com/WOb2uVddOw</a></p>
— Emmanuel (@Emmanue41720182) <a href="https://twitter.com/Emmanue41720182/status/1324546280421548039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">49% of Americans saw that <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpMeltdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpMeltdown</a> and thought, yup that’s my guy. This country is broken and it will take many generations after Trump is gone to fix it.</p>
— Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1324525852537708544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p>Ummm!</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">25th Amendment Now<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpMeltdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpMeltdown</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpPressConference?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpPressConference</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpIsALaughingStock?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpIsALaughingStock</a> <a href="https://t.co/QdCG4NwoY8">pic.twitter.com/QdCG4NwoY8</a></p>
— David Leavitt (@David_Leavitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/David_Leavitt/status/1324525037815300101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p>A great person once said, "Whiners are wieners!"</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">"When the Republicans send us their Presidents, they're not sending their best! Some are racists, some are rapists; and some, I guess, are whiners."<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpMeltdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpMeltdown</a> <a href="https://t.co/wEJFWIuZ5x">pic.twitter.com/wEJFWIuZ5x</a></p>
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomiahonen/status/1324573293308006400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p>All votes matter. Don't they? They do. Don't they?</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The irony, right? 🤷🏼 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CountAllTheVotes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CountAllTheVotes</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpMeltdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpMeltdown</a> <a href="https://t.co/A9AzIFaNx9">pic.twitter.com/A9AzIFaNx9</a></p>
— Bobby Berk (@bobbyberk) <a href="https://twitter.com/bobbyberk/status/1324563715719487490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p>Ain't no stoppin' then now?</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">While Trump is having a meltdown in the WH the Black folks in Philly are doing this....(and I know why 😁) <a href="https://t.co/FlinDuEVl0">https://t.co/FlinDuEVl0</a></p>
— LaTosha Brown (@MsLaToshaBrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/MsLaToshaBrown/status/1324531299542093824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p>Yes or yes?</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpMeltdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpMeltdown</a><br />
By: <a href="https://twitter.com/adamtots?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@adamtots</a> on IG or FB <a href="https://t.co/usq8LDYPrq">pic.twitter.com/usq8LDYPrq</a></p>
— Tony Capasso (@tonylovesdnb) <a href="https://twitter.com/tonylovesdnb/status/1324531334233116673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p>Haha!</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">It gotta a thousand meaning. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpMeltdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpMeltdown</a> <a href="https://t.co/HG52Y0XnQv">pic.twitter.com/HG52Y0XnQv</a></p>
— Kanyi (@Kanyinash) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kanyinash/status/1324553483303964676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p><em>That had to hurt :O</em>&nbsp;</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">"I'm the most loved president in history."<br />
"I don't know someone told me." <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Election2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Election2020</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ElectionResults2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ElectionResults2020</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpMeltdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpMeltdown</a> <a href="https://t.co/T2m2xXU6Zn">pic.twitter.com/T2m2xXU6Zn</a></p>
— Ziya Malik (@IamZiyaMalik) <a href="https://twitter.com/IamZiyaMalik/status/1324564823879884801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p><em><strong>All hail the sore-loser glory!</strong></em><br />
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The hugely contentious US presidential election has come down to four states -- Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia and Nevada -- deciding the victor. Since the November 3 vote, the incumbent president, Donald Trump, at his post-election rallies, has called for ballot counting to be stopped, and contended without proof there has been voter fraud -- so much so that several US TV networks late Thursday halted live coverage of his first public appearance since election night.

The hugely contentious US presidential election has come down to four states -- Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia and Nevada -- deciding the victor. Since the November 3 vote, the incumbent president, Donald Trump, at his post-election rallies, has called for ballot counting to be stopped, and contended without proof there has been voter fraud -- so much so that several US TV networks late Thursday halted live coverage of his first public appearance since election night. The networks conclude that the president was spreading disinformation. Trump spoke as late vote counting in battleground states showed Democrat Joe Biden steadily closing in on victory. "They are trying to steal the election," an increasingly isolated Trump said in an extraordinary appearance at the White House on Thursday, two days after polls closed. At the event, CNN's Jim Acosta taunted Trump as he stormed off stage following his 17-minute tirade about being cheated out of winning the election. Trump didn't answer a single question as several reporters demanded answers from him, including Acosta who asked: 'Are you being a sore loser?' Trump ignored Acosta's question and walked out the door following the press conference -- after claiming the entire election process was rigged against him from start to finish. Trump, whose campaign has launched lawsuits in several battleground states, noted the polls got the election wrong -- just like the 'phony polls' did in 2016. The incumbent president has even cried foul on Twitter. But his tweets have often been masked with notices telling people the claims are misleading. Trump's meltdown on Twitter has also met with some interesting responses. (Warning: Light content. Feel free to laugh, only if Trump isn't watching :)) Must say Greta Thunberg knows how to give it back ;) So ridiculous. Donald must work on his Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Donald, Chill! https://t.co/4RNVBqRYBA — Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) November 5, 2020 × HOW IT STARTED / HOW ITS GOING #TrumpMeltdown pic.twitter.com/J8jpmCc2zo — Zain (@souvenirsexile) November 6, 2020 × I'm not crying. You are :'( This video encapsulates everything going on with Donald Trump at the moment. Epic!#TrumpMeltdown pic.twitter.com/WOb2uVddOw — Emmanuel (@Emmanue41720182) November 6, 2020 × 49% of Americans saw that #TrumpMeltdown and thought, yup that’s my guy. This country is broken and it will take many generations after Trump is gone to fix it. — Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) November 6, 2020 × Ummm! 25th Amendment Now#TrumpMeltdown #TrumpPressConference #TrumpIsALaughingStock pic.twitter.com/QdCG4NwoY8 — David Leavitt (@David_Leavitt) November 6, 2020 × A great person once said, "Whiners are wieners!" "When the Republicans send us their Presidents, they're not sending their best! Some are racists, some are rapists; and some, I guess, are whiners."#TrumpMeltdown pic.twitter.com/wEJFWIuZ5x — Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) November 6, 2020 × All votes matter. Don't they? They do. Don't they? The irony, right? 🤷🏼 #CountAllTheVotes #TrumpMeltdown pic.twitter.com/A9AzIFaNx9 — Bobby Berk (@bobbyberk) November 6, 2020 × Ain't no stoppin' then now? While Trump is having a meltdown in the WH the Black folks in Philly are doing this....(and I know why 😁) https://t.co/FlinDuEVl0 — LaTosha Brown (@MsLaToshaBrown) November 6, 2020 × Yes or yes? #TrumpMeltdown By: @adamtots on IG or FB pic.twitter.com/usq8LDYPrq — Tony Capasso (@tonylovesdnb) November 6, 2020 × Haha! It gotta a thousand meaning. #TrumpMeltdown pic.twitter.com/HG52Y0XnQv — Kanyi (@Kanyinash) November 6, 2020 × That had to hurt :O "I'm the most loved president in history." "I don't know someone told me." #Election2020 #ElectionResults2020 #TrumpMeltdown pic.twitter.com/T2m2xXU6Zn — Ziya Malik (@IamZiyaMalik) November 6, 2020 × All hail the sore-loser glory!

Of sore losers, and votes that matter: How the US is reacting to #TrumpMeltdown

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<p>If President Donald Trump loses his bid for reelection, as looked increasingly likely Wednesday, it would be the first defeat of an incumbent president in 28 years. But one thing seemed certain: Win or lose, he will not go quietly away.</p>

<p>Trailing former Vice President Joe Biden, Trump spent the day trying to discredit the election based on invented fraud claims, hoping either to hang onto power or explain away a loss. He could find a narrow path to reelection among states still counting, but he has made clear that he would not shrink from the scene should he lose.</p>

<p>At the very least, he has 76 days left in office to use his power as he sees fit and to seek revenge on some of his perceived adversaries. Angry at a defeat, he may fire or sideline a variety of senior officials who failed to carry out his wishes as he saw it, including Christopher Wray, the FBI director, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious diseases specialist in the middle of a pandemic.</p>

<p><strong>Also read:&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/trump-voters-in-battleground-arizona-fear-their-votes-are-invalid-due-to-sharpie-pens-is-sharpiegate-real-340659" hreflang="en">Trump voters in battleground Arizona fear their votes are invalid due to Sharpie pens. Is 'Sharpiegate' real?</a></p>

<p>And if he is forced to vacate the White House on Jan. 20, Trump is likely to prove more resilient than expected and almost surely will remain a powerful and disruptive force in American life. He received at least 68 million votes, or 5 million more votes than he did in 2016 and commanded about 48% of the popular vote, meaning he retained the support of nearly half of the public despite four years of scandal, setbacks, impeachment and the brutal coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 233,000 Americans.</p>

<p>That gives him a power base to play a role that other defeated one-term presidents like Jimmy Carter and George Bush have not played. Trump has long toyed with starting his own television network to compete with Fox News, and in private lately he has broached the idea of running again in 2024, although he would be 78 by then. Even if his own days as a candidate are over, his 88-million-strong Twitter following gives him a bullhorn to be an influential voice on the right, potentially making him a kingmaker among rising Republicans.</p>

<p>“If anything is clear from the election results, it is that the president has a huge following, and he doesn’t intend to exit the stage anytime soon,” said former Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, one of the few Republican officeholders to break with Trump over the past four years.</p>

<p>That following may yet enable Trump to eke out a second term and four years to try to rebuild the economy and reshape the Republican Party in his image. But even from out of office, he could try to pressure Republican senators who preserved their majority to resist Biden at every turn, forcing them to choose between conciliation or crossing his political base.</p>

<p><strong>Also read:&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/as-trump-demands-vote-count-to-stop-in-battleground-states-counteveryvote-trends-340625" hreflang="en">As Trump demands vote count to stop in battleground states, #CountEveryVote trends</a></p>

<p>Until a new generation of Republicans steps forward, Trump could position himself as the de facto leader of the party, wielding an extraordinary database of information about his supporters that future candidates would love to rent or otherwise access. Allies imagined other Republicans making a pilgrimage to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, seeking his blessing.</p>

<p>“It isn’t like his Twitter account or his ability to control a news cycle will stop,” said Brad Parscale, the president’s first campaign manager in this election cycle. “President Trump also has the largest amount of data ever collected by a politician. This will impact races and policies for years to come.”</p>

<p>Exit polls showed that regardless of prominent Republican defectors like Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah and the Never Trumpers of the Lincoln Project, Trump enjoyed strong support within his own party, winning 93% of Republican voters. He also did somewhat better with Black voters (12%) and Hispanic voters (32%) than he did four years ago despite his often racist rhetoric. And after his high-energy blitz across battleground states, late-deciding voters broke his way.</p>

<p>Some of Trump’s arguments carried considerable weight with members of his party. Despite the coronavirus pandemic and the related economic toll, 41% of voters said they were doing better than when he took office, compared with only 20% who described themselves as worse off. Adopting his priorities, 35% of voters named the economy as the most important issue, twice as many who cited the pandemic. Fully 49% said the economy was good or excellent, and 48% approved of his government’s handling of the virus.</p>

<p>“If he is defeated, the president will retain the undying loyalty of the party’s voters and the new voters he brought into the party,” said Sam Nunberg, who was a strategist on Trump’s 2016 campaign. “President Trump will remain a hero within the Republican electorate. The winner of the 2024 Republican presidential primary will either be President Trump or the candidate who most closely resembles him.”</p>

<p>Not all Republicans share that view. While Trump will no doubt continue to speak out and assert himself on the public stage, they said the party would be happy to try to move beyond him if he loses and he would be remembered as an aberration.</p>

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<p>“There will never be another Trump,” said former Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Florida. “Copycats will fail. He will gradually fade, but the scars from this tumultuous period in American history will never disappear.”</p>

<p>Indeed, Trump failed to reproduce his fluky 2016 success when he secured an Electoral College victory even while losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. For all of the tools of incumbency, he failed to pick up a single state that he did not win last time, and as of Wednesday, he had lost two or three, with a couple of others still on the edge.</p>

<p>Other presidents evicted after a single term or less — like Gerald Ford in 1976, Carter in 1980 and Bush in 1992 — tended to fade back into the political shadows. Ford briefly contemplated a comeback, Carter occasionally criticized his successors, and Bush campaigned for his sons, but none of them remained major political forces within their party for long. Politically, at least, each of them was seen to various degrees as a spent force.</p>

<p>The last defeated president to try to play a power-broker role after leaving office was Herbert Hoover, who positioned himself to run again after his loss in 1932 to Franklin D. Roosevelt and became an outspoken leader of the conservative wing of the Republican Party. While he wielded significant influence for years, it did not regain him the nomination nor change the verdict of history.</p>

<p>For Trump, who cares about “winning, winning, winning” more than almost anything, being known as a loser would be intolerable. On Election Day, during a visit to his campaign headquarters, he mused aloud about that. “Winning is easy,” he told reporters and staff members. “Losing is never easy. Not for me it’s not.”</p>

<p>To avoid such a fate, the president sought Wednesday to convince supporters that the election was being stolen simply because state and local authorities were counting legally cast ballots. The fact that it was not true evidently mattered little to him. He was setting up a narrative to justify legal challenges that even Republican lawyers called groundless and, should those fail, to set himself up as a martyr who was not repudiated by the voters but somehow robbed by unseen nefarious forces.</p>

<p>Trump himself has a long history on the other end of fraud allegations. His sister asserted that he got someone else to take his college-entrance exam. The daughters of a Queens, New York, foot doctor claimed that their late father gave Trump a diagnosis of bone spurs to protect him from the draft for the Vietnam War as a favor to Fred Trump, his father. And his business dealings have often ensnared him in allegations and law suits.</p>

<p>The younger Trump paid $25 million to students of his Trump University to settle fraud accusations. His charitable foundation was shut down after authorities found a “shocking pattern of illegality.” He participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, according to a New York Times investigation. And Michael Cohen, his estranged lawyer and fixer, wrote in a recent book that he rigged two online polls on Trump’s behalf.</p>

<p>The president has survived all of that and a string of bankruptcies and other failures through a life of celebrity and populist appeals that gave him the aura of a winner that he nurtured. From his time in real estate and reality television, he has been part of the country’s pop culture firmament for 30 years, a recurring figure in movies, television shows and his own books.</p>

<p>He has been, for millions, a symbol of gold-gilded aspiration and wealth. He was the star of a popular television series for 14 seasons, one that introduced him to the country long before he ran for office. And once he did, his boisterous rallies bonded his supporters to him in a way that underscored how much of a cultural phenomenon he is.</p>

<p>For months, as his chances of being reelected dwindled, Trump told advisers — sometimes joking, sometimes not — that should he lose he would promptly announce that he was running again in 2024. Two advisers said they anticipate he will make good on that declaration if his legal challenges fail and is defeated, a move that if nothing else would allow him to raise money to finance the rallies that sustain him.</p>

<p>When he appeared likely to lose his original campaign in 2016, he and some of his family members talked about starting a media property, loosely conceived of as “Trump TV.” Some of those discussions have continued into this year, according to people familiar with them.</p>

<p>“There’s no question that he is one of the greatest polarizing political figures of modern history,” said Tony Fabrizio, one of Trump’s pollsters. “His supporters adore him, and his opponents revile him. There is no middle ground on Donald Trump.”</p>


If President Donald Trump loses his bid for reelection, as looked increasingly likely Wednesday, it would be the first defeat of an incumbent president in 28 years.

If President Donald Trump loses his bid for reelection, as looked increasingly likely Wednesday, it would be the first defeat of an incumbent president in 28 years. But one thing seemed certain: Win or lose, he will not go quietly away. Trailing former Vice President Joe Biden, Trump spent the day trying to discredit the election based on invented fraud claims, hoping either to hang onto power or explain away a loss. He could find a narrow path to reelection among states still counting, but he has made clear that he would not shrink from the scene should he lose. At the very least, he has 76 days left in office to use his power as he sees fit and to seek revenge on some of his perceived adversaries. Angry at a defeat, he may fire or sideline a variety of senior officials who failed to carry out his wishes as he saw it, including Christopher Wray, the FBI director, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious diseases specialist in the middle of a pandemic. Also read: Trump voters in battleground Arizona fear their votes are invalid due to Sharpie pens. Is 'Sharpiegate' real? And if he is forced to vacate the White House on Jan. 20, Trump is likely to prove more resilient than expected and almost surely will remain a powerful and disruptive force in American life. He received at least 68 million votes, or 5 million more votes than he did in 2016 and commanded about 48% of the popular vote, meaning he retained the support of nearly half of the public despite four years of scandal, setbacks, impeachment and the brutal coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 233,000 Americans. That gives him a power base to play a role that other defeated one-term presidents like Jimmy Carter and George Bush have not played. Trump has long toyed with starting his own television network to compete with Fox News, and in private lately he has broached the idea of running again in 2024, although he would be 78 by then. Even if his own days as a candidate are over, his 88-million-strong Twitter following gives him a bullhorn to be an influential voice on the right, potentially making him a kingmaker among rising Republicans. “If anything is clear from the election results, it is that the president has a huge following, and he doesn’t intend to exit the stage anytime soon,” said former Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, one of the few Republican officeholders to break with Trump over the past four years. That following may yet enable Trump to eke out a second term and four years to try to rebuild the economy and reshape the Republican Party in his image. But even from out of office, he could try to pressure Republican senators who preserved their majority to resist Biden at every turn, forcing them to choose between conciliation or crossing his political base. Also read: As Trump demands vote count to stop in battleground states, #CountEveryVote trends Until a new generation of Republicans steps forward, Trump could position himself as the de facto leader of the party, wielding an extraordinary database of information about his supporters that future candidates would love to rent or otherwise access. Allies imagined other Republicans making a pilgrimage to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, seeking his blessing. “It isn’t like his Twitter account or his ability to control a news cycle will stop,” said Brad Parscale, the president’s first campaign manager in this election cycle. “President Trump also has the largest amount of data ever collected by a politician. This will impact races and policies for years to come.” Exit polls showed that regardless of prominent Republican defectors like Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah and the Never Trumpers of the Lincoln Project, Trump enjoyed strong support within his own party, winning 93% of Republican voters. He also did somewhat better with Black voters (12%) and Hispanic voters (32%) than he did four years ago despite his often racist rhetoric. And after his high-energy blitz across battleground states, late-deciding voters broke his way. Some of Trump’s arguments carried considerable weight with members of his party. Despite the coronavirus pandemic and the related economic toll, 41% of voters said they were doing better than when he took office, compared with only 20% who described themselves as worse off. Adopting his priorities, 35% of voters named the economy as the most important issue, twice as many who cited the pandemic. Fully 49% said the economy was good or excellent, and 48% approved of his government’s handling of the virus. “If he is defeated, the president will retain the undying loyalty of the party’s voters and the new voters he brought into the party,” said Sam Nunberg, who was a strategist on Trump’s 2016 campaign. “President Trump will remain a hero within the Republican electorate. The winner of the 2024 Republican presidential primary will either be President Trump or the candidate who most closely resembles him.” Not all Republicans share that view. While Trump will no doubt continue to speak out and assert himself on the public stage, they said the party would be happy to try to move beyond him if he loses and he would be remembered as an aberration. Also read: US election 2020: Can United States Supreme Court be the final arbiter? “There will never be another Trump,” said former Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Florida. “Copycats will fail. He will gradually fade, but the scars from this tumultuous period in American history will never disappear.” Indeed, Trump failed to reproduce his fluky 2016 success when he secured an Electoral College victory even while losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. For all of the tools of incumbency, he failed to pick up a single state that he did not win last time, and as of Wednesday, he had lost two or three, with a couple of others still on the edge. Other presidents evicted after a single term or less — like Gerald Ford in 1976, Carter in 1980 and Bush in 1992 — tended to fade back into the political shadows. Ford briefly contemplated a comeback, Carter occasionally criticized his successors, and Bush campaigned for his sons, but none of them remained major political forces within their party for long. Politically, at least, each of them was seen to various degrees as a spent force. The last defeated president to try to play a power-broker role after leaving office was Herbert Hoover, who positioned himself to run again after his loss in 1932 to Franklin D. Roosevelt and became an outspoken leader of the conservative wing of the Republican Party. While he wielded significant influence for years, it did not regain him the nomination nor change the verdict of history. For Trump, who cares about “winning, winning, winning” more than almost anything, being known as a loser would be intolerable. On Election Day, during a visit to his campaign headquarters, he mused aloud about that. “Winning is easy,” he told reporters and staff members. “Losing is never easy. Not for me it’s not.” To avoid such a fate, the president sought Wednesday to convince supporters that the election was being stolen simply because state and local authorities were counting legally cast ballots. The fact that it was not true evidently mattered little to him. He was setting up a narrative to justify legal challenges that even Republican lawyers called groundless and, should those fail, to set himself up as a martyr who was not repudiated by the voters but somehow robbed by unseen nefarious forces. Trump himself has a long history on the other end of fraud allegations. His sister asserted that he got someone else to take his college-entrance exam. The daughters of a Queens, New York, foot doctor claimed that their late father gave Trump a diagnosis of bone spurs to protect him from the draft for the Vietnam War as a favor to Fred Trump, his father. And his business dealings have often ensnared him in allegations and law suits. The younger Trump paid $25 million to students of his Trump University to settle fraud accusations. His charitable foundation was shut down after authorities found a “shocking pattern of illegality.” He participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, according to a New York Times investigation. And Michael Cohen, his estranged lawyer and fixer, wrote in a recent book that he rigged two online polls on Trump’s behalf. The president has survived all of that and a string of bankruptcies and other failures through a life of celebrity and populist appeals that gave him the aura of a winner that he nurtured. From his time in real estate and reality television, he has been part of the country’s pop culture firmament for 30 years, a recurring figure in movies, television shows and his own books. He has been, for millions, a symbol of gold-gilded aspiration and wealth. He was the star of a popular television series for 14 seasons, one that introduced him to the country long before he ran for office. And once he did, his boisterous rallies bonded his supporters to him in a way that underscored how much of a cultural phenomenon he is. For months, as his chances of being reelected dwindled, Trump told advisers — sometimes joking, sometimes not — that should he lose he would promptly announce that he was running again in 2024. Two advisers said they anticipate he will make good on that declaration if his legal challenges fail and is defeated, a move that if nothing else would allow him to raise money to finance the rallies that sustain him. When he appeared likely to lose his original campaign in 2016, he and some of his family members talked about starting a media property, loosely conceived of as “Trump TV.” Some of those discussions have continued into this year, according to people familiar with them. “There’s no question that he is one of the greatest polarizing political figures of modern history,” said Tony Fabrizio, one of Trump’s pollsters. “His supporters adore him, and his opponents revile him. There is no middle ground on Donald Trump.”

Win or lose, Trump will remain a powerful and disruptive force

Votes are still being counted in several crucial battleground states in the U.S. election, making it unclear whether it will be Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden leading the world’s most powerful nation until 2024.

US Election 2020: Ballot counting continues in several pivotal states

<p>The outcome of the U.S. presidential election hung in the balance on Wednesday as several states continued to count their ballots, including some of the most competitive battlegrounds where the tally could take days to complete.&nbsp;|&nbsp;<strong><em>Live election updates&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/us-election-2020-results-live-result-updates-donald-trump-joe-biden-votes-tally-how-to-follow-the-2020-us-election-results-from-india-donald-trump-joe-biden-president-white-house-340694">here</a></em></strong></p>

<p>Democratic nominee Joe Biden has a slight edge over Republican President Donald Trump with 227 to 213 electoral votes. That leaves 98 electoral votes to be allocated, and possible paths to victory for both candidates. The winner needs to secure 270 votes.</p>

<p>Here is the state of play in nine states. The vote counts are supplied by Edison Research.</p>

<p><strong>Alaska</strong></p>

<p>Trump has a wide lead and is broadly expected to carry the state. Still, just 56% of the expected vote has been counted, with Trump ahead by 62.9% to 33%.</p>

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<p><strong>Arizona</strong></p>

<p>Biden has a significant lead, and the Associated Press and Fox News have already called the state for the Democrat. With 86% of the expected vote counted, Biden leads with 50.7% against 47.9% for Trump, according to Edison Research.</p>

<p>Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs told ABC News that Maricopa County, which includes heavily populated Phoenix, had about 400,000 outstanding ballots to be counted and would release more results later on Wednesday.</p>

<p><strong>Also read:&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/as-trump-demands-vote-count-to-stop-in-battleground-states-counteveryvote-trends-340625" hreflang="en">As Trump demands vote count to stop in battleground states, #CountEveryVote trends</a></p>

<p><strong>Georgia</strong></p>

<p>Trump is holding onto a narrow lead, but several of the large counties around Atlanta that lean Democratic have substantial numbers of ballots still to count. With 95% of the expected vote counted, Trump is ahead with 49.7% versus 49% for Biden.</p>

<p>Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said he hoped to have a result by the end of Wednesday.</p>

<p>Under Georgia law, if the margin between the candidates is less than or equal to 0.5 percentage point, a candidate may request a recount within two business days following the certification of results.</p>

<p>Trump's campaign filed a lawsuit to require that Chatham County, which includes Savannah, separate and secure late-arriving ballots to ensure they are not counted. The campaign said it had received information that late-arriving ballots in the county were improperly mingled with valid ballots.</p>

<p><strong>Maine</strong></p>

<p>Maine is one of two states that divide their Electoral College votes between the winner of the statewide popular vote and the winner in each of its congressional districts.</p>

<p>Edison Research has allocated Biden two votes for the statewide outcome, which he leads by 53.8% to 43.2% with 87% of the state's expected votes counted. It also called the state's 1st Congressional District for Biden, giving him a third electoral vote from the state.</p>

<p>Trump has a lead of 51.4% to 45.1% in the state's 2nd Congressional District. The Associated Press projected Trump the winner of the state's fourth vote on Wednesday, with only 53.7% of the expected vote in.</p>

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<p><strong>Michigan</strong></p>

<p>Biden has a growing margin, with CNN and NBC projecting Biden the winner there just before 4.30 p.m. EST (2130 GMT) on Wednesday. Biden leads Trump by 50.3% to 48.1% with 99% of the state's expected votes counted.</p>

<p>Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said on Wednesday night that all valid ballots in the state had been counted, and that a lawsuit by Trump seeking to halt counting of votes there was "frivolous."</p>

<p><strong>Nevada</strong></p>

<p>Long seen as a solid Biden-leaning state, Nevada now appears in play. Edison Research data shows 86% of the expected vote is in and Biden's lead is just 49.3% to 48.7% for Trump.</p>

<p>State officials expect the remaining votes - largely mail-in ballots - to be counted by 9 a.m. PST (1700 GMT) on Thursday. Clark County, the state's largest and home to Las Vegas, has tallied 84% of expected votes so far and Biden is ahead there 52.9% versus 45.4% for Trump.</p>

<p><strong>North Carolina</strong></p>

<p>The margin between Trump and Biden is less than 2 percentage points as the president clings to a lead of 50.1% to 48.7% for the Democrat, with 95% of the expected vote counted.</p>

<p>The state allows mail-in ballots postmarked by Tuesday to be counted if they are received by Nov. 12. On Wednesday morning, the Biden campaign said it expected a final result to take several days, and state officials said later on Wednesday that a full result would not be known until next week.</p>

<p><strong>Pennsylvania</strong></p>

<p>Of the battleground states, Pennsylvania has the furthest to go in counting votes, and Trump so far maintains a lead. With 88% of the expected vote counted, Trump is up 50.8% to 47.9% for Biden.</p>

<p>Officials there can accept mailed-in ballots up to three days after the election if they are postmarked by Tuesday. About 1 million votes remain to be counted, Governor Tom Wolf, a Democrat, said on Wednesday.</p>

<p>If the margin of victory is within half of 1%, state law requires a recount.</p>

<p>The Trump campaign said on Wednesday it was suing to temporarily halt vote counting in Pennsylvania and also asked to intervene in a U.S. Supreme Court case over mail-in ballots in the state, which could determine the winner of the election.</p>

<p><strong>Wisconsin</strong></p>

<p>The Trump campaign said on Wednesday it would request a recount of votes in Wisconsin, where the margin between the candidates is less than 1 percentage point.</p>

<p>Biden is up 49.4% to 48.8% for Trump with 99% of the expected vote tallied, according to Edison Research. Edison said that it would not call a race in Wisconsin or any state where the margin is narrow enough to allow a candidate to demand a recount under state law. Some media outlets, including NBC and the Associated Press, projected Biden the winner.</p>

<p><strong>Note: </strong>Vote counts supplied by Edison Research, which provides exit polls and voting data to the National Election Pool media consortium. Reuters has not independently tabulated the ballots.</p>


The outcome of the U.S. presidential election hung in the balance on Wednesday as several states continued to count their ballots, including some of the most competitive battlegrounds where the tally could take days to complete.

The outcome of the U.S. presidential election hung in the balance on Wednesday as several states continued to count their ballots, including some of the most competitive battlegrounds where the tally could take days to complete. | Live election updates here Democratic nominee Joe Biden has a slight edge over Republican President Donald Trump with 227 to 213 electoral votes. That leaves 98 electoral votes to be allocated, and possible paths to victory for both candidates. The winner needs to secure 270 votes. Here is the state of play in nine states. The vote counts are supplied by Edison Research. Alaska Trump has a wide lead and is broadly expected to carry the state. Still, just 56% of the expected vote has been counted, with Trump ahead by 62.9% to 33%. Also read: Trump voters in battleground Arizona fear their votes are invalid due to Sharpie pens. Is 'Sharpiegate' real? Arizona Biden has a significant lead, and the Associated Press and Fox News have already called the state for the Democrat. With 86% of the expected vote counted, Biden leads with 50.7% against 47.9% for Trump, according to Edison Research. Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs told ABC News that Maricopa County, which includes heavily populated Phoenix, had about 400,000 outstanding ballots to be counted and would release more results later on Wednesday. Also read: As Trump demands vote count to stop in battleground states, #CountEveryVote trends Georgia Trump is holding onto a narrow lead, but several of the large counties around Atlanta that lean Democratic have substantial numbers of ballots still to count. With 95% of the expected vote counted, Trump is ahead with 49.7% versus 49% for Biden. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said he hoped to have a result by the end of Wednesday. Under Georgia law, if the margin between the candidates is less than or equal to 0.5 percentage point, a candidate may request a recount within two business days following the certification of results. Trump's campaign filed a lawsuit to require that Chatham County, which includes Savannah, separate and secure late-arriving ballots to ensure they are not counted. The campaign said it had received information that late-arriving ballots in the county were improperly mingled with valid ballots. Maine Maine is one of two states that divide their Electoral College votes between the winner of the statewide popular vote and the winner in each of its congressional districts. Edison Research has allocated Biden two votes for the statewide outcome, which he leads by 53.8% to 43.2% with 87% of the state's expected votes counted. It also called the state's 1st Congressional District for Biden, giving him a third electoral vote from the state. Trump has a lead of 51.4% to 45.1% in the state's 2nd Congressional District. The Associated Press projected Trump the winner of the state's fourth vote on Wednesday, with only 53.7% of the expected vote in. Also read: US election 2020: Can United States Supreme Court be the final arbiter? Michigan Biden has a growing margin, with CNN and NBC projecting Biden the winner there just before 4.30 p.m. EST (2130 GMT) on Wednesday. Biden leads Trump by 50.3% to 48.1% with 99% of the state's expected votes counted. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said on Wednesday night that all valid ballots in the state had been counted, and that a lawsuit by Trump seeking to halt counting of votes there was "frivolous." Nevada Long seen as a solid Biden-leaning state, Nevada now appears in play. Edison Research data shows 86% of the expected vote is in and Biden's lead is just 49.3% to 48.7% for Trump. State officials expect the remaining votes - largely mail-in ballots - to be counted by 9 a.m. PST (1700 GMT) on Thursday. Clark County, the state's largest and home to Las Vegas, has tallied 84% of expected votes so far and Biden is ahead there 52.9% versus 45.4% for Trump. North Carolina The margin between Trump and Biden is less than 2 percentage points as the president clings to a lead of 50.1% to 48.7% for the Democrat, with 95% of the expected vote counted. The state allows mail-in ballots postmarked by Tuesday to be counted if they are received by Nov. 12. On Wednesday morning, the Biden campaign said it expected a final result to take several days, and state officials said later on Wednesday that a full result would not be known until next week. Pennsylvania Of the battleground states, Pennsylvania has the furthest to go in counting votes, and Trump so far maintains a lead. With 88% of the expected vote counted, Trump is up 50.8% to 47.9% for Biden. Officials there can accept mailed-in ballots up to three days after the election if they are postmarked by Tuesday. About 1 million votes remain to be counted, Governor Tom Wolf, a Democrat, said on Wednesday. If the margin of victory is within half of 1%, state law requires a recount. The Trump campaign said on Wednesday it was suing to temporarily halt vote counting in Pennsylvania and also asked to intervene in a U.S. Supreme Court case over mail-in ballots in the state, which could determine the winner of the election. Wisconsin The Trump campaign said on Wednesday it would request a recount of votes in Wisconsin, where the margin between the candidates is less than 1 percentage point. Biden is up 49.4% to 48.8% for Trump with 99% of the expected vote tallied, according to Edison Research. Edison said that it would not call a race in Wisconsin or any state where the margin is narrow enough to allow a candidate to demand a recount under state law. Some media outlets, including NBC and the Associated Press, projected Biden the winner. Note: Vote counts supplied by Edison Research, which provides exit polls and voting data to the National Election Pool media consortium. Reuters has not independently tabulated the ballots.

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<p>Rapper Lil Wayne has broken up with his girlfriend&nbsp;model Denise Bidot and it seems his closeness with President Donald Trump caused the break-up.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Very near to the US Election 2020, the rapper met the POTUS to talk about criminal reform and encouraging the community to take up more onus. They did a photo op and Wayne, shared the photo on his Twitter. He wrote, "Just had a great meeting with @realdonaldtrump @potus besides what he’s done so far with criminal reform, the platinum plan is going to give the community real ownership. He listened to what we had to say today and assured he will and can get it done."</p>

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After the post, Wayne's&nbsp;girlfriend, Bidot shared a cryptic tweet, " Sometimes love just isn't enough…&nbsp;"and unfollowed Wayne on Instagram. She later confirmed the breakup in a video and deleted her Instagram account.&nbsp;On November 4, Wayne seemed to nod toward the break up, tweeting, "I live the way I love and love the way I live. I'm a lover, not a lighter bekuz they burn out. I am an eternal fire and burning love, either leave with a tan, a 3rd degree burn, or stay and die in love. You're sweating. Sincerely, the fireman."</p>

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Rapper Lil Wayne has broken up with his girlfriend model Denise Bidot and it seems his closeness with President Donald Trump caused the break-up. Very near to the US Election 2020, the rapper met the POTUS to talk about criminal reform and encouraging the community to take up more onus.

Rapper Lil Wayne has broken up with his girlfriend model Denise Bidot and it seems his closeness with President Donald Trump caused the break-up. Very near to the US Election 2020, the rapper met the POTUS to talk about criminal reform and encouraging the community to take up more onus. They did a photo op and Wayne, shared the photo on his Twitter. He wrote, "Just had a great meeting with @realdonaldtrump @potus besides what he’s done so far with criminal reform, the platinum plan is going to give the community real ownership. He listened to what we had to say today and assured he will and can get it done." Just had a great meeting with @realdonaldtrump @potus besides what he’s done so far with criminal reform, the platinum plan is going to give the community real ownership. He listened to what we had to say today and assured he will and can get it done. 🤙🏾 pic.twitter.com/Q9c5k1yMWf — Lil Wayne WEEZY F (@LilTunechi) October 29, 2020 × After the post, Wayne's girlfriend, Bidot shared a cryptic tweet, " Sometimes love just isn't enough… "and unfollowed Wayne on Instagram. She later confirmed the breakup in a video and deleted her Instagram account. On November 4, Wayne seemed to nod toward the break up, tweeting, "I live the way I love and love the way I live. I'm a lover, not a lighter bekuz they burn out. I am an eternal fire and burning love, either leave with a tan, a 3rd degree burn, or stay and die in love. You're sweating. Sincerely, the fireman." I live the way I love and love the way I live. I’m a lover not a lighter bekuz they burn out. I am an eternal fire and burning love, either leave with a tan, a 3rd degree burn, or stay and die in love. You’re sweating. Sincerely, the fireman. — Lil Wayne WEEZY F (@LilTunechi) November 4, 2020 × While Bidot is no longer on Instagram, Wayne has not yet deleted the posts featuring her from his own account.

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