Daily US Times: As more votes are counted in a handful of key battleground states, President Trump’s re-election chances fading. But Trump campaign launched an extraordinary assault on the country’s democratic process and election integrity from the White House on Thursday, falsely claiming the election was being “stolen” from him.
Without giving any evidence, President Trump lambasted election workers and alleged fraud in the key battleground states where results from a dwindling set of uncounted votes are pushing Democrat Joe Biden nearer to victory.
The President said: “This is a case where they’re trying to steal an election.”
The former vice president Joe Biden was steadily eating away the Republican President’s leads in Georgia and Pennsylvania even as he maintained narrow advantages in Arizona and Nevada, moving closer to securing the 270 votes in the state-by-state Electoral College that determines the winner.
In Pennsylvania, the Republican incumbent’s lead had shrunk from 319,000 on Wednesday afternoon to around 50,000 by Thursday night , while his margin in Georgia fell from 68,000 to 2,500. Those numbers were expected to continue to move in the Democratic candidate Biden’s favor, with many of the outstanding ballots from areas that typically vote Democratic, including the cities of Philadelphia and Atlanta.
Meanwhile, Biden saw his lead in Arizona contract from 93,000 to around 48,000; he was ahead in Nevada by only 11,000 votes.
Biden would become the next President by winning Pennsylvania, or by winning two out of the trio of Arizona, Georgia and Nevada. Trump’s likeliest path appeared narrower – he needed to hang onto Georgia and Pennsylvania while overtaking Biden in either Arizona and Nevada.
Most major television networks gave Joe Biden a 253 to 214 lead in Electoral College votes, after he captured the crucial states of Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday.
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