Unbothered that several networks and news agencies that declared his defeat in the presidential election, Donald Trump has continued to rage against supposed fraud and election meddling in swing states that he claims cost him his victory – citing the US’s “history of election problems”
Donald Trump refused to formally concede the US election on Sunday, even as senior Republicans began to distance themselves from him, and as recriminations were reported among aides to a man doomed to go down as an impeached, one-term president.
This is coming a day after a stream of world leaders have congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory in the 2020 US presidential election.
Today, Trump continued to tweet his defiance and to attract censure for making baseless claims about voter fraud and his supposed victory.
“We should look at the votes. We’re just beginning the tabulation stage. We should look at these allegations. We’re seeing a number of affidavits that there has been voter fraud. We have a history in this country of election problems. In Pennsylvania you had an order by a…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2020
….how these ballots were authenticated, because if there’s a problem in the system about authentication, that would seriously affect the ENTIRE ELECTION – And what concerns me is that we had over a hundred million mail-in ballot in cites like Philladelphia…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2020
…and Detroit with a long series of election problems (to put it mildly).” @JonathanTurley
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2020