Trump proclaims himself the winner without the necessary votes and threatens to appeal to the Supreme Court to stop the recount
There are no official results, but the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has already declared himself the winner of the presidential elections. The decision of the Americans remains in the air due to the delay in the recount in several decisive states such as Michigan, Arizona or Pennsylvania and, although the number of electoral votes of the two candidates remains very close, neither has reached the 270 necessary to conquer the White House.
In a speech from Washington, the Republican has without evidence accused the Democratic Party of the attempt to "theft of the elections" and has threatened to appeal to the Supreme Court to stop the counting of votes sent by mail after months of doubting a voting method that he uses himself.
"It is a fraud to the American public, an embarrassment to the country. We were preparing to win this election and, frankly, we have won it. Our goal is to ensure the integrity of our nation and we will go to the Supreme Court. We want everyone to stop. votes, we do not want to find ballots at 4 in the morning, "he declared. Even Twitter has warned users that posts on the social network could be misleading.
Against the electoral system
Trump has won in decisive states such as Florida, Ohio or Texas and leads the count in Pennsylvania, North Carolina or Georgia, but the record in the vote by mail could end up tilting the balance on the Democratic side. Nothing is guaranteed and no scenario can be ruled out in the next few hours.
But that has not stopped the president from claiming victory in some territories that have not yet counted all their ballots. "We were winning everything and suddenly it was paralyzed. We have won Florida by a large margin, also the great state of Ohio, Texas, or Georgia and [the Democrats] are never going to catch up with us," he predicted.
"They knew they could not win [...] Millions of people have voted for us and a very sad group of people is trying to take away their right to vote and we will not tolerate it," he added.
The president had already warned on Tuesday that losing "would not be easy" and had been casting doubts about the reliability of early voting for months. But the judicialization of the elections through the Supreme Court would only destabilize a highly polarized country.
Hours later, Trump has continued to delve into the conspiracy theory, again without providing evidence. "Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key states. Then, one by one, they began to magically disappear as surprise ballots were counted," he noted on Twitter. His campaign has already got to work in court: he will ask for the recount in Wisconsin after Biden's victory, and he is trying to stop the recount of votes in Michigan, one of the decisive states where the Democrat has the advantage. It has also launched maneuvers in Georgia and Pennsylvania.
Democratic defense
The possibility of the president rejecting the electoral result has been flying over the campaign for weeks. And far from giving up, Democrats also threaten to dispute all of the Republican's efforts to subvert the bottom line.
"The statement tonight of the president, who tries to stop the counting of votes duly cast, has been outrageous, unprecedented and incorrect," Biden's campaign manager said in a statement sent to the press.
"If she goes ahead with her threat to impede the correct counting of votes, we have legal teams prepared to resist those efforts," adds Jen O'Malley Dillon's note.
Trump thus questions the same electoral system that gave him victory in 2016, a strategy that his Republican ranks do not share. "There is no basis to make that argument tonight. There simply is not," former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie told ABC News. Be that as it may, the only certainty is that the political pulse will be delayed, at least, several days.
