In undecided US election, Trump claims premature victory
Al JazeeraJoe Biden calls for ‘patience’ and counting every vote, as Associated Press says race remains undecided. “Millions and millions of people voted for us today,” Trump said in an early Wednesday morning address from the White House, “and a very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise that group of people, and we won’t stand for it.” Trump also said – without providing any proof – that he is winning in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, critical swing states that have just begun to count mail-in ballots likely to favour Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. “It ain’t over ’til every vote is counted, every ballot is counted,” Biden said. They can’t catch us.” Trump said he plans to challenge the continuing counts of mail ballots in the US Supreme Court, although the legal grounds he will claim are not clear. Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement: “The president’s statement tonight about trying to shut down the counting of duly cast ballots was outrageous, unprecedented, and incorrect.” “The counting will not stop.