His campaign fought to keep Trump’s chances alive with a lawsuits in Michigan and Pennsylvania to stop vote counting. Other closely contested states including Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina were still counting votes, leaving the national election outcome uncertain. In the nationwide popular vote, Biden on Wednesday was comfortably ahead of Trump, with about 3 million more votes. Ahead of the election, Trump had said he wanted his latest U.S. Supreme Court appointee, Amy Coney Barrett, confirmed by the Senate in case the court had to hear any electoral dispute. Frankly, we did win this election,” Trump said before launching an extraordinary attack on the electoral process by a sitting president.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 05, 2020 04:44 UTC