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.

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<p>As the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/us-election">US election</a>&nbsp;results are drawing near,&nbsp;the&nbsp;current President&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.wionews.com/topics/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>&nbsp;</strong>is repeatedly accusing&nbsp;his opponent&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.wionews.com/topics/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>&nbsp;</strong>of manipulating the voting results, and has claimed that all votes being counted now fall under 'fraudulent activity'.</p>

<p>Donald Trump has alleged that all ballots being counted now are "magically appearing" and has, therefore, decided to file a lawsuit now in Nevada, after losing legal battles in&nbsp;Georgia and Michigan.&nbsp;</p>

<p>"You know, those ballots are going to magically show up just like they did right you saw that line on the curve up north in a 100 percent of votes. We went to sleep. I woke up two hours later after not sleeping for 3 days with this amazing a hundred thirty thousand about that one of them for Donald Trump," he said.</p>

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<p>Trump has been claiming that the elections are rigged since the night of elections when the mail-in ballots were being counted. He claims Joe Biden has rigged the elections. "If you count the legal votes, I easily win," he claimed. "They're trying to rig an election. And we can't let that happen." Interestingly, Trump started accusing Biden of rigging the elections only after Joe Biden started leading.</p>

<p>He has been urging the citizens to be aware and has asked his legal team to file lawsuits in all the states where Biden has shown lead after November 03 night. In the Georgia case, his&nbsp;campaign team accused 53 late-arriving ballots were mixed with the ballots that came on time. In Michigan, too, he tried to stop the votes from being counted. However, his team lost both the cases as both the judges from the states,&nbsp;Judge James Bass and&nbsp;Judge Cynthia Stephens, said there was no evidence or basis of these allegations.</p>

<p><strong>Also read|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/did-democrat-bernie-sanders-predict-trumps-election-fraud-claim-watch-this-viral-prediction-video-340724" hreflang="en">Did Bernie Sanders predict Trump's election fraud claim? Video goes viral</a></strong></p>

<p>Meanwhile, a judge has ordered twice daily sweeps at US Postal Service (USPS) facilities specifically in&nbsp;Nevada and North Carolina, where the votes are still being counted.&nbsp;</p>

<p>While Donald Trump is trying his best to get the judges to rule in his favour, Joe Biden has accepted his win and is urging people to "keep the faith, folks". Biden has been actively posting on his official Twitter account urging people to stay calm and trust the system. "No one is going to take our democracy away from us. Not now, not ever," he tweeted. "America has come too far, fought too many battles, and endured too much to let that happen."</p>


As the US election results are drawing near, the current President Donald Trump is repeatedly accusing his opponent Joe Biden of manipulating the voting results, and has claimed that all votes being counted now fall under 'fraudulent activity'.

As the US election results are drawing near, the current President Donald Trump is repeatedly accusing his opponent Joe Biden of manipulating the voting results, and has claimed that all votes being counted now fall under 'fraudulent activity'. Donald Trump has alleged that all ballots being counted now are "magically appearing" and has, therefore, decided to file a lawsuit now in Nevada, after losing legal battles in Georgia and Michigan. "You know, those ballots are going to magically show up just like they did right you saw that line on the curve up north in a 100 percent of votes. We went to sleep. I woke up two hours later after not sleeping for 3 days with this amazing a hundred thirty thousand about that one of them for Donald Trump," he said. US election 2020 result LIVE updates: Biden nears victory, Trump claims would win unless Democrats 'steal' polls STOP THE FRAUD! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2020 × Trump has been claiming that the elections are rigged since the night of elections when the mail-in ballots were being counted. He claims Joe Biden has rigged the elections. "If you count the legal votes, I easily win," he claimed. "They're trying to rig an election. And we can't let that happen." Interestingly, Trump started accusing Biden of rigging the elections only after Joe Biden started leading. He has been urging the citizens to be aware and has asked his legal team to file lawsuits in all the states where Biden has shown lead after November 03 night. In the Georgia case, his campaign team accused 53 late-arriving ballots were mixed with the ballots that came on time. In Michigan, too, he tried to stop the votes from being counted. However, his team lost both the cases as both the judges from the states, Judge James Bass and Judge Cynthia Stephens, said there was no evidence or basis of these allegations. Also read| Did Bernie Sanders predict Trump's election fraud claim? Video goes viral Meanwhile, a judge has ordered twice daily sweeps at US Postal Service (USPS) facilities specifically in Nevada and North Carolina, where the votes are still being counted. While Donald Trump is trying his best to get the judges to rule in his favour, Joe Biden has accepted his win and is urging people to "keep the faith, folks". Biden has been actively posting on his official Twitter account urging people to stay calm and trust the system. "No one is going to take our democracy away from us. Not now, not ever," he tweeted. "America has come too far, fought too many battles, and endured too much to let that happen."

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<p>Poll workers in Derry, New Hampshire, learned the hard way earlier this year that hand sanitizer and paper ballots do not mix. So on Election Day, they carefully repositioned the gallon tubs of sanitizer from the entrance of their polling place to the exit, hoping to keep voters from gunking up their ballots.</p>

<p>But their effort could not stop the woman who brought her own bottle of hand sanitizer and applied a heavy lather as she voted, dampening the paper so much that the AccuVote ballot reader refused to accept it. When the soggy ballot was finally yanked out of the jammed contraption, there was no mistaking what had happened: Everyone could see the voter’s wet handprint on the paper.</p>

<p>“I don’t know what it is about hand sanitizer, maybe it’s the alcoholic content, but if you ever tried to pour hand sanitizer on nicer paper, it almost — I don’t want to say it disintegrates, but it makes it weaker,” said Tina Guilford, the top election official in Derry, who has come to learn how to process those accidentally sanitized ballots.</p>

<p>In a year when interference by foreign governments, armed protesters and voter suppression were considered the main threats at the polls, some Election Day holdups were the result of everyday municipal malfunctions.</p>

<p>Those setbacks highlight the decentralized nature of national elections, which rely on hundreds of thousands of everyday people to work the polls. And they bring attention to what some advocates have been urging for years: the need for better basic infrastructure in some voting locations, including new polling places to reduce crowding and improved systems to register online or vote by mail.</p>

<p>Lawrence Norden, the director of the election reform program at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, said election officials seemed better prepared this year, in part because of the microscope the coronavirus pandemic and fears of meddling placed over the 2020 election. Congress also sent $400 million to the states as part of the economic stimulus bill signed by President Donald Trump in March to help them make adjustments for safe elections, although some Democrats said at the time that more money was needed.</p>

<p>“There’s no question that our election infrastructure is chronically underfunded,” Norden said, although he noted that more money, private and public, had flowed to election planning in recent years.</p>

<p>In the 2018 midterm elections, voters cast ballots at about 230,871 polling places, where more than 637,000 poll workers — two-thirds of whom were older than 60 — signed them in, guided them to their ballots and counted their votes. That patchwork of election districts and poll workers makes mishaps impossible to avoid, experts said, but can also keep an incident at one polling place from affecting a broader region.</p>

<p>“The fact that we do fundamentally run elections by volunteer citizens in their local communities, that keeps a minor or even a major problem happening in one place from bringing down our democracy,” said Maggie Toulouse Oliver, the New Mexico secretary of state and president of the National Association of Secretaries of State.</p>

<p>This week saw a variety of such small-scale interruptions. In Atlanta, the culprit was leaky plumbing. Inside the arena where the Atlanta Hawks play basketball — converted into a polling place — the early-morning discovery that a burst pipe was leaking water into a room with absentee ballots delayed the count by a couple of hours. An arena staff member quickly fixed the leak, and none of the ballots were damaged, officials said.</p>

<p>Several polling places in Louisiana were running on generators after lingering power failures caused by Hurricane Zeta, which led to a feud between local and state officials over who was responsible for sending the generators to election sites. Officials ultimately moved two polling locations to a nearby middle school, and there were no serious delays.</p>

<p>In Hidalgo County in South Texas, just across the border from Mexico, it was a technical glitch. New laptops that had been distributed to polling sites before Election Day to help accommodate the region’s record-breaking turnout did not work, causing delays of up to 90 minutes Tuesday morning.</p>

<p>“They were not allowing the software program to open up to check in voters,” Yvonne Ramon, the county elections administrator, said. “And because they were scattered throughout the county, my field service technicians took off to the nearest locations. We’re a large county, so going from location to location is not an easy thing.”</p>

<p>Ramon noted that hiccups with new technology were not unusual. But the county kept polling places open an additional hour Tuesday night to make up for the earlier delays, and everyone who had come out to cast a ballot was ultimately able to do so, she said.</p>

<p>In the battleground state of Wisconsin, the last few hundred votes went unreported for several hours because the Richland County clerk could not reach the clerk in the town of Willow, who had said she felt sick and then could not be reached, according to The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Willow’s 274 votes were eventually reported. In Green Bay, the count of absentee votes was briefly delayed while an election official ran over to City Hall to get more ink for the vote-counting machines.</p>

<p>Poll workers face unexpected glitches every year, but warnings about distorted tallies or delayed counts made voters and observers more on edge than usual about any oddities. None of the complications this week led to serious problems, elections officials said. Some, like the hand sanitizer incident, were the result of an election severely altered by coronavirus precautions.</p>

<p>Until this year, “Hand sanitizer was never a thing at a polling place,” said Guilford, the official in Derry, where just over 18,000 people voted. The ballot that jammed the machine was ultimately hand counted, and the ballot reader was taken out of service, she said.</p>

<p>Hand sanitizer had tripped up other ballot machines in New Hampshire earlier this year, and on Tuesday in Iowa, requiring one of the machines to be fixed.</p>

<p>Daniel Healey, the town clerk in Derry, said election officials had done what they could to keep it from happening again, but that they could not stop everything.</p>

<p>“There was way less hand sanitizer this time,” he said, but some people brought their own. “There’s no way to stop it entirely.”<br />
&nbsp;</p>


Poll workers in Derry, New Hampshire, learned the hard way earlier this year that hand sanitizer and paper ballots do not mix. So on Election Day, they carefully repositioned the gallon tubs of sanitizer from the entrance of their polling place to the exit, hoping to keep voters from gunking up their ballots.

Poll workers in Derry, New Hampshire, learned the hard way earlier this year that hand sanitizer and paper ballots do not mix. So on Election Day, they carefully repositioned the gallon tubs of sanitizer from the entrance of their polling place to the exit, hoping to keep voters from gunking up their ballots. But their effort could not stop the woman who brought her own bottle of hand sanitizer and applied a heavy lather as she voted, dampening the paper so much that the AccuVote ballot reader refused to accept it. When the soggy ballot was finally yanked out of the jammed contraption, there was no mistaking what had happened: Everyone could see the voter’s wet handprint on the paper. “I don’t know what it is about hand sanitizer, maybe it’s the alcoholic content, but if you ever tried to pour hand sanitizer on nicer paper, it almost — I don’t want to say it disintegrates, but it makes it weaker,” said Tina Guilford, the top election official in Derry, who has come to learn how to process those accidentally sanitized ballots. In a year when interference by foreign governments, armed protesters and voter suppression were considered the main threats at the polls, some Election Day holdups were the result of everyday municipal malfunctions. Those setbacks highlight the decentralized nature of national elections, which rely on hundreds of thousands of everyday people to work the polls. And they bring attention to what some advocates have been urging for years: the need for better basic infrastructure in some voting locations, including new polling places to reduce crowding and improved systems to register online or vote by mail. Lawrence Norden, the director of the election reform program at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, said election officials seemed better prepared this year, in part because of the microscope the coronavirus pandemic and fears of meddling placed over the 2020 election. Congress also sent $400 million to the states as part of the economic stimulus bill signed by President Donald Trump in March to help them make adjustments for safe elections, although some Democrats said at the time that more money was needed. “There’s no question that our election infrastructure is chronically underfunded,” Norden said, although he noted that more money, private and public, had flowed to election planning in recent years. In the 2018 midterm elections, voters cast ballots at about 230,871 polling places, where more than 637,000 poll workers — two-thirds of whom were older than 60 — signed them in, guided them to their ballots and counted their votes. That patchwork of election districts and poll workers makes mishaps impossible to avoid, experts said, but can also keep an incident at one polling place from affecting a broader region. “The fact that we do fundamentally run elections by volunteer citizens in their local communities, that keeps a minor or even a major problem happening in one place from bringing down our democracy,” said Maggie Toulouse Oliver, the New Mexico secretary of state and president of the National Association of Secretaries of State. This week saw a variety of such small-scale interruptions. In Atlanta, the culprit was leaky plumbing. Inside the arena where the Atlanta Hawks play basketball — converted into a polling place — the early-morning discovery that a burst pipe was leaking water into a room with absentee ballots delayed the count by a couple of hours. An arena staff member quickly fixed the leak, and none of the ballots were damaged, officials said. Several polling places in Louisiana were running on generators after lingering power failures caused by Hurricane Zeta, which led to a feud between local and state officials over who was responsible for sending the generators to election sites. Officials ultimately moved two polling locations to a nearby middle school, and there were no serious delays. In Hidalgo County in South Texas, just across the border from Mexico, it was a technical glitch. New laptops that had been distributed to polling sites before Election Day to help accommodate the region’s record-breaking turnout did not work, causing delays of up to 90 minutes Tuesday morning. “They were not allowing the software program to open up to check in voters,” Yvonne Ramon, the county elections administrator, said. “And because they were scattered throughout the county, my field service technicians took off to the nearest locations. We’re a large county, so going from location to location is not an easy thing.” Ramon noted that hiccups with new technology were not unusual. But the county kept polling places open an additional hour Tuesday night to make up for the earlier delays, and everyone who had come out to cast a ballot was ultimately able to do so, she said. In the battleground state of Wisconsin, the last few hundred votes went unreported for several hours because the Richland County clerk could not reach the clerk in the town of Willow, who had said she felt sick and then could not be reached, according to The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Willow’s 274 votes were eventually reported. In Green Bay, the count of absentee votes was briefly delayed while an election official ran over to City Hall to get more ink for the vote-counting machines. Poll workers face unexpected glitches every year, but warnings about distorted tallies or delayed counts made voters and observers more on edge than usual about any oddities. None of the complications this week led to serious problems, elections officials said. Some, like the hand sanitizer incident, were the result of an election severely altered by coronavirus precautions. Until this year, “Hand sanitizer was never a thing at a polling place,” said Guilford, the official in Derry, where just over 18,000 people voted. The ballot that jammed the machine was ultimately hand counted, and the ballot reader was taken out of service, she said. Hand sanitizer had tripped up other ballot machines in New Hampshire earlier this year, and on Tuesday in Iowa, requiring one of the machines to be fixed. Daniel Healey, the town clerk in Derry, said election officials had done what they could to keep it from happening again, but that they could not stop everything. “There was way less hand sanitizer this time,” he said, but some people brought their own. “There’s no way to stop it entirely.”

The unforeseen threats to the 2020 election: Hand sanitizer and bad plumbing

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<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>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>
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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>
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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!

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<p>Police in the city of Portland made arrests and seized fireworks, hammers and a rifle after late night demonstrations, as Oregon Governor Kate Brown activated the state`s National Guard in response to "widespread violence" on the night after voting in the US presidential election.</p>

<p>Portland Police said it arrested ten people in the demonstrations after declaring riots in the city's downtown area while the New York Police Department (NYPD) said it made about 50 arrests in protests that spread in the city late on Wednesday.</p>

<p>"All of the gatherings that were declared riots were downtown. We have made 10 arrests", a Portland Police spokesman told Reuters in an emailed statement.</p>

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<p>Demonstrations were also seen in a few other US&nbsp;cities on Wednesday night as activists demanding that vote counts proceed unimpeded rallied in several cities, including Atlanta, Detroit, New York, and Oakland.</p>

<p>Earlier on Wednesday, about 100 people gathered for an interfaith event before a planned march through downtown Detroit, in the battleground state of Michigan, to demand a full vote count and what they called a peaceful transition of power.</p>

<p>Local partners of Protect the Results — a coalition of more than 165 grassroots organisations, advocacy groups and labor unions — have organised over 100 events planned across the country between Wednesday and Saturday.</p>

<p><strong>Also read|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/at-least-three-people-injured-in-a-stabbing-incident-in-washington-dc-on-us-election-results-night-340660" hreflang="en">At least three people injured in a stabbing incident in Washington DC on US election results night</a></strong></p>

<p>Heading into the Nov. 3 elections, the United States had seen months of protests following the death in May of George Floyd, an African-American who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.</p>

<p>The protests once again picked up momentum following the police shooting later in the year of an African-American named Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin and more recently of 27-year-old Walter Wallace Jr. who was gunned down by two officers in Philadelphia.</p>

<p>Portland has seen several demonstrations since Floyd's death, particularly in the city`s downtown area, with protests occasionally turning into clashes between demonstrators and police as well as between right- and left-wing groups.</p>

<p>The anti-racism protests have demanded an end to police brutality and racial inequality while the more recent demonstrations surrounding the November&nbsp;3 vote have demanded for a full count of the votes cast on Tuesday.</p>


Police in the city of Portland made arrests and seized fireworks, hammers and a rifle after late night demonstrations, as Oregon Governor Kate Brown activated the state`s National Guard in response to "widespread violence" on the night after voting in the US presidential election.

Police in the city of Portland made arrests and seized fireworks, hammers and a rifle after late night demonstrations, as Oregon Governor Kate Brown activated the state`s National Guard in response to "widespread violence" on the night after voting in the US presidential election. Portland Police said it arrested ten people in the demonstrations after declaring riots in the city's downtown area while the New York Police Department (NYPD) said it made about 50 arrests in protests that spread in the city late on Wednesday. "All of the gatherings that were declared riots were downtown. We have made 10 arrests", a Portland Police spokesman told Reuters in an emailed statement. US election results 2020 LIVE: At least three injured in stabbing incident in Washington on results night Demonstrations were also seen in a few other US cities on Wednesday night as activists demanding that vote counts proceed unimpeded rallied in several cities, including Atlanta, Detroit, New York, and Oakland. Earlier on Wednesday, about 100 people gathered for an interfaith event before a planned march through downtown Detroit, in the battleground state of Michigan, to demand a full vote count and what they called a peaceful transition of power. Local partners of Protect the Results — a coalition of more than 165 grassroots organisations, advocacy groups and labor unions — have organised over 100 events planned across the country between Wednesday and Saturday. Also read| At least three people injured in a stabbing incident in Washington DC on US election results night Heading into the Nov. 3 elections, the United States had seen months of protests following the death in May of George Floyd, an African-American who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. The protests once again picked up momentum following the police shooting later in the year of an African-American named Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin and more recently of 27-year-old Walter Wallace Jr. who was gunned down by two officers in Philadelphia. Portland has seen several demonstrations since Floyd's death, particularly in the city`s downtown area, with protests occasionally turning into clashes between demonstrators and police as well as between right- and left-wing groups. The anti-racism protests have demanded an end to police brutality and racial inequality while the more recent demonstrations surrounding the November 3 vote have demanded for a full count of the votes cast on Tuesday.

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