Trump Tweets ’I Won’ After Saying ’Fake Results’ of 2020 Mail-in Vote Shouldn’t be Allowed to Stand

By Staff, Agencies

US President Donald Trump has refused to concede to president-elect Joe Biden, projected the winner by the media after the 3 November elections, with the Trump campaign insisting on vote recounts and filing lawsuits in battleground states, citing "irregularities" when large amounts of votes for Biden emerged in several key areas towards the end of the counting process.

Trump said he won the 2020 election, also publishing a series of tweets, where he criticized "Radical Left-owned Dominion Voting Systems", and said that the US "cannot allow the Fake results of the 2020 Mail-In Election to stand."

A day before, Trump tweeted that Biden won "because the Election was Rigged", adding in a separate post that he "concedes nothing", as the Democratic contender only won "in the eyes of [the] fake news media."

On Wednesday, Trump's team said it had launched a lawsuit alleging irregularities, incompetence, and unlawful vote counting in the state of Michigan. Vote recounts are expected in Wisconsin and Georgia, while authorities in Pennsylvania refused to launch the procedure, saying that the margin between the contenders is too large.

The vote count for the November 3rd elections was expected to take additional time this year, as the coronavirus pandemic caused an unprecedented number of mail-in votes.

On the 7th of November, major American TV networks declared Biden the winner of the presidential race, although the count is still ongoing.