The Muslim Times’ Editor’s note: This post was initially made for Friday November 6, but is coming true for today, November 7.
Source: Huffington Post
Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden entered Friday on the brink of victory, having overtaken President Donald Trump in Georgia and Pennsylvania. Vote totals released since election night have led to Trump’s leads collapsing in both critical swing states.
As an official projection of victory appeared ever more certain, Biden’s campaign announced that he and vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris would address the nation on Friday night.
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As states worked on their official tallies, Trump and his allies continued to lash out and accuse Democrats of fraud ― without offering any evidence. On Thursday evening, Trump hosted a brazenly dishonest press conference at which he baselessly insisted that Democrats were “trying to steal” and “rig” the election.
“If you count the legal votes, I easily win,” Trump falsely said.
The states are counting legal votes that are perfectly valid. And those legal votes are increasingly not going for Trump.
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Sen. Kamala Harris is expected to deliver remarks tonight ahead of Joe Biden’s planned prime-time speech, per a campaign aide.
It will be the first time we hear from the vice presidential hopeful since Election Day.
Philadelphia has about 40,000 ballots left to count, which could take several days to complete, Lisa Deeley, chair of the Philadelphia City Commissioners, said during a press conference Friday.
The ballots fall in three categories, “those that require review, provisionals, US military overseas ballots,” Deeley said.
Philadelphia City Commissioner Omar Sabir urged patience.
“Ignore a lot of the noise that’s going on, allow us to complete the counting process,” Sabir said.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-biden-election-results-11-06-20/h_1360ff2fa99ae944d1c8cf9b5015b42a
“Joe Biden seemed to be creeping along a narrow path to the White House after he took a small lead in the key swing states of Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday morning, shoving him closer to an overall victory after a stressful night of election results.
In Wisconsin, officials say all of the votes appear to have been counted but they are “triple checking”. Biden, at the moment, is leading by 20,000, the state’s election administrator said on Wednesday at noon.
Meanwhile, the President claimed it was a fraud and claimed his overnight majority had “magically disappeared” thanks to “surprise ballot dumps” in Democrat states.
Neither The President and Joe Biden have yet reached the 270 electoral college votes they need to claim the White House and ballot counting will continue throughout the day and even the week”
seems to have been superseded now…