Trump: ‘I won the election!’

US President Donald Trump has again claimed that he “won” the November 3 disputed presidential election.

“I won the Election!” Trump tweeted on Monday, a day after saying that his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, “won because the election was rigged.”

I won the Election!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2020

“The Fake recount going on in Georgia means nothing because they are not allowing signatures to be looked at and verified. Break the unconstitutional Consent Decree!” he said in another tweet on Monday.

The Fake recount going on in Georgia means nothing because they are not allowing signatures to be looked at and verified. Break the unconstitutional Consent Decree!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2020

Georgia, which was won by Biden by a margin of .3 percent, is auditing 5 million ballots by hand. Meanwhile, Biden’s lawyers have said that the recounting isn’t making any substantial difference in the final vote count.

On Sunday, Trump tweeted, “He won because the election was rigged. No vote watchers or observers allowed, vote tabulated by a radical left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I won by a lot!), the Fake & Silent Media, & more!”

"All of the mechanical 'glitches' that took place on Election Night were really them getting caught trying to steal votes. They succeeded plenty, however, without getting caught," he added in a subsequent tweet. "Mail-in elections are a sick joke!"

The tweets, like many of Trump’s recent posts about the election, were flagged by Twitter as containing disputed claims about election fraud.

According to media reports, Biden won the presidential election and solidified his victory on Friday with a projected win in the state of Georgia, becoming the first Democratic candidate to take the state since 1992.

Biden now enjoys 306 votes in the Electoral College and far exceeds the 270 threshold to win presidency.

However, Trump has so far refused to concede defeat to his Democratic rival and launched a series of legal challenges in key states, making unsubstantiated allegations of widespread electoral fraud though his efforts have yet to yield any fruit.

Several US states have over the past two weeks been the scene of rival protests on a daily basis, which has led to the further deepening of a political chasm among American politicians long defending the US election system and polarizing the chaos-ridden US society.

Trump campaign drops parts of Pennsylvania election lawsuit

US President Donald Trump

The Trump campaign on Sunday dropped a major part of a lawsuit challenging the election results in Pennsylvania.

In an amended complaint filed in federal court, Trump’s attorneys lodged a revised version of the lawsuit, scrapping a claim that election officials violated his campaign’s constitutional rights by unlawfully blocking observers from watching the counting of mail-in ballots in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

The Republican president and his personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani have repeatedly said over 600,000 votes in the two cities should be invalidated because of this issue.

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