Donald Trump Claims Victory, Questions Recently Counted Mail-In Ballots
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are currently in a heated battle for the White House. As of right now, Biden leads the Electoral Vote count 253 to 214, and as it stands, Biden is just 3,000 votes away from flipping Georgia blue, while Pennsylvania is expected to flip for Biden as well. Regardless, Trump isn’t going down without a fight and just moments ago, he took to the stage at the White House where he called the fairness of the election into question and claims he won.
“If you count the legal vote, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us,” Trump told the group of reporters at the White House. The President also went on to say that the pollsters purposely tried to make it seem like he would lose as a means to take his momentum away. By all accounts, there is no current evidence of fraudulent ballots and there is no real basis for saying pollsters had any sort of nefarious intentions while polling in key states. Main-in ballots were expected to skew heavily towards the Democrats, especially given Trump’s pre-election rhetoric which told his supporters to avoid voting by mail.
These are all sentiments that Trump echoed on the night of the election when he took the podium at the White House and claimed that he would ultimately prove to be…