# Trump threatens to take election fight to Supreme Court after claiming victory. The Biden camp says that’s ‘outrageous’ and ‘incorrect’
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Trump threatens to take election fight to Supreme Court after claiming victory. The Biden camp says that’s ‘outrageous’ and ‘incorrect’
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s camp hit out at President Trump’s calls for vote counting to stop and threats to go to the Supreme Court.
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President Donald Trump falsely claimed to have already won the election early Wednesday with millions of votes in key battleground states yet to be counted in a tight race.
Trump also vowed to take the election battle to the Supreme Court in a White House speech that immediately sent U.S. stock futures
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lower, before recovering. The President called for “all voting to stop” as he described the vote tabulation as a “major fraud in this country.”
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Shortly after 7 a.m. Eastern, around four hours after Trump’s address, both candidates remained short of the 270 electoral votes needed to win. Biden had 238 electoral votes compared to Trump’s 213, according to the Associated Press.
A number of critical battleground states, including Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are yet to be called, while another, Arizona, has gone to Biden.
However, Trump declared victory and said, “We want all voting to stop.”
Watch: Trump speaks on election night as vote count continues
“This is a fraud on the American public, this is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly we did win this election,” he said. “So our goal now is to ensure the integrity for the good of this nation,” he added. The President did not specify what legal action he was threatening to take to the Supreme Court.
Speaking after Trump, Vice President Mike Pence used softer language. “While the votes continue to be counted, we’re going to remain vigilant, as the president said,” said Pence.
Earlier in the evening, former Vice President Joe Biden called for patience, however, telling supporters in Delaware the election “ain’t over until every vote is counted, every ballot is counted.
He added: “It’s not my place or Donald Trump’s place to declare who’s won this election. That’s the decision of the American people.”
His campaign manager O’Malley echoed those sentiments later on in the night in the aftermath of Trump’s comments. “The counting will not stop. It will continue until every duly cast vote is counted. Because that is what our laws — the laws that protect every Americans’ constitutional right to vote — require,” she said.
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