The formal electoral college certification of the US presidential election results, in favour of president-elect Joe Biden, is scheduled today. However, President Donald Trump, who has been calling the election "rigged" and alleging massive voter fraud, refused to concede. He said that his fight to challenge the results of the November 3 presidential polls is not over. Trump said that even though the Supreme Court rejected a case brought by Texas against several swing states over their elections, he still has other challenges in play.
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a bid from Texas' attorney general and backed by Trump to block the ballots of millions of voters in battleground states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that went in favour of Biden.
"No, it's not over. We keep going. And we're going to continue to go forward," Trump told Fox and Friends in an interview when asked about the dismissal of the lawsuit filed by Texas and 17 others states seeking to overthrow the election results in four battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. Trump claimed that he won Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia while noting that he has an ongoing case in Wisconsin. "MOST CORRUPT ELECTION IN US HISTORY!" Trump said in a tweet. "How do states and politicians confirm an election where corruption and irregularities are documented throughout? A swing state hustle," he said in another tweet.
Thousands of Trump supporters had returned to Washington for weekend rallies to back his efforts to challenge the elections. Sporadic fights broke out between pro-Trump and anti-Trump demonstrators after sundown Saturday. WRC-TV reported that four people were taken to a hospital with stab wounds, and the Metropolitan Police Department told the station that 23 people were arrested.
The gatherings of mostly unmasked Trump loyalists were intended as a show of force just two days before the electoral college meets to formally elect Biden as the 46th president. Trump, whose term will end on January 20, refused to concede, while clinging to claims of fraud that have been rejected by state and federal courts, and Friday by the Supreme Court.
-Inputs from agencies
