After votes from Philadelphia edged Joe Biden just under 6,000 votes ahead of Donald Trump, setting him up for victory courtesy PA's 20 electoral college votes, Trump's campaign has vowed to contest results in several states.
“Georgia is headed for a recount, where we are confident we will find ballots improperly harvested, and where President Trump will ultimately prevail," Trump campaign's general counsel Matt Morgan said in a statement.
"There were many irregularities in Pennsylvania, including having election officials prevent our volunteer legal observers from having meaningful access to vote counting locations. We prevailed in court on our challenge, but were deprived of valuable time and denied the transparency we are entitled to under state law. In Nevada, there appear to be thousands of individuals who improperly cast mail ballots," Morgan added.
"Finally, the President is on course to win Arizona outright, despite the irresponsible and erroneous ‘calling’ of the state for Biden by Fox News and the Associated Press," he said.
Trump’s claims about the election have been challenged as erroneous. Numerous news networks cut their live feeds of Trump’s White House briefing to state that his claims were unfounded and filled with falsehoods. CNN’s Daniel Dale even called it the “most dishonest speech” Trump had ever given.
AP has also published a fact check on Trump’s claims of election irregularities, noting that he has furnished no evidence so far to back his claims. His chief complaint, which is that counting extended past Election Day, is based on a false reading of US election history—never have all votes been counted on the same day as the election.
Following the news that he had lost his lead in Pennsylvania due to new votes from Philadelphia, Trump issued an angry tweet, misspelling Philadelphia in the process.
“Philadelpiha has got a rotten history on election integrity,” he tweeted, tagging Varneyco and Fox Business.
