Joe Biden all but declared election victory on Wednesday afternoon after winning Wisconsin and Michigan as President Trump cried fraud and desperately scrambled to undermine the results.
CNN has called Michigan for Biden, giving him another 16 electoral college votes which gives him 264 – just 6 away from the 270 he need to claims the White House. He won by some 67,000 votes.
Nevada, North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania all remain in play. Trump can now only win if he takes them all.
He is ahead by 76,000 votes in North Carolina, 67,000 votes in Georgia and 319,377 in Pennsylvania. He needs to win all three plus Nevada – where Biden is leading by 8,000 votes – to win a second term.
Biden only needs Nevada or any of the other states to triumph.
On Wednesday afternoon, as his chances at shrank, Trump claimed victory in Pennsylvania – despite there being 15 percent of the vote left to to count – Michigan, despite it being called for Biden – North Carolina and Georgia – where votes are still being counted.
He claims that votes for him ‘mysteriously vanished’ and that the counting is not being done properly, flatly rejecting the election result as he has been threatening to do for months.
The President is demanding a recount in Wisconsin and he has filed lawsuits in Michigan and Pennsylvania to halt counting, claiming his people have not been allowed to oversee the process and ensure it is being carried out fairly.
Biden at a press conference on Wednesday, was unperturbed by Trump’s last-ditch efforts to snatch back the likelihood of a second term.
‘After a long night of counting it’s clear we are winning enough states to win the presidency. I am not here to declare that we won but I am here to report that when the count is finished we believe we will be the winners