Biden Takes Leads In Pa., Ga., Putting Him On Cusp Of Electoral College Win

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Lehigh County workers count ballots as vote counting in the general election continues on Thursday in Allentown, Pa.





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President Donald Trump walks away after speaking at the White House on Thursday night.





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President Donald Trump walks away after speaking at the White House on Thursday night.


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Underlying all of this, the Trump campaign continues to sow doubts about the integrity of the election without evidence. Surrogates have held press conferences in several key states to announce charges of election fraud, without evidence. The campaign has filed lawsuits in several states, too, though judges in many cases have quickly tossed the suits.

Not long after Biden appeared in Wilmington on Thursday night to urge patience as mail ballots continue to be counted, the president went to the lectern in the White House briefing room to baselessly declare that his campaign was the victim of election fraud.

Election experts long said counting the unprecedented number of mail ballots cast this year would take time, and determining a winner would not come quickly in many states where the margins were close.

That did not stop Trump from claiming falsely, «If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us.

Mail ballots still being counted are legal votes. Trump has lost Wisconsin and Michigan, according to the Associated Press.

A handful Republicans now are scrambling to renounce the president’s comments about the integrity of the election, as the country remains on edge about who will win the presidency, and whether the president will accept defeat should he lose.