From the Liveblog of
Sunday, November 8, 2020
Trump still claiming to have won the election
US President Donald Trump is still claiming to have won the election.
In an all-caps tweet, his first since returning from a round of golf, during which the networks called the race for Joe Biden, Trump again falsely claims that observers were not allowed into the counting rooms.
“I WON THE ELECTION, GOT 71,000,000 LEGAL VOTES. BAD THINGS HAPPENED WHICH OUR OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE,” he tweets.
THE OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTING ROOMS. I WON THE ELECTION, GOT 71,000,000 LEGAL VOTES. BAD THINGS HAPPENED WHICH OUR OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE. NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WERE SENT TO PEOPLE WHO NEVER ASKED FOR THEM!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2020
A follow-up tweet notes “71,000,000 Legal Votes. The most EVER for a sitting President!”
Joe Biden received almost 75 million votes.
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