PRESIDENT Donald Trump has declared victory over Joe Biden and said he would ask the Supreme Court to intervene, even as several battleground states continue to count votes.
“This is a fraud on the American public,” Trump said after noting that he holds leads in several states that have not been called in his favour, including Pennsylvania and Michigan.
“Frankly we did win this election,” he said.
“So we’ll be going to the U.S. Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop.”
It wasn’t immediately clear what Trump meant, as states including Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia and others are counting legally cast votes. It is routine for states to continue counting votes after Election Day.
Trump delivered his remarks from the East Room of the White House, shortly before 2.30am in New York, to a crowd of more than 100 supporters, including his family.
Few if any of the people
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