Trump locked in tight race with Biden, says he will fight election in U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump is vowing to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on the inconclusive election.
Trump appeared before supporters at the White House early Wednesday morning and cried foul over the election results, calling the process “a major fraud on our nation.” But there’s no evidence of foul play in the cliffhanger.
The night ended with hundreds of thousands of votes still to be counted, and the outcome still unclear in key states he needs if he is to win against Democrat Joe Biden.
Nevertheless, Trump cast the night as a disenfranchisement of his voters. He said: “We will win this and as far as I’m concerned we already have won it.”
Trump added: “We’ll be going to the U.S. Supreme Court — we want all voting to stop.” In fact, there is no more voting — just counting.
Biden’s campaign responded by saying it will fight any efforts by Trump’s campaign to go to the Supreme Court to prevent ballots from being tabulated.
In a statement early Wednesday, Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon called Trump’s statement that he will “be going to the U.S. Supreme Court” and that he wants “all voting to stop” “outrageous, unprecedented and incorrect.”
O’Malley Dillon said the Biden campaign has “legal teams standing by ready to deploy to resist that effort.” And she predicted, “They will prevail.”
Speaking a short time before Trump did, the former vice president himself told supporters: "Keep the faith guys, we're going to win this."
Both The Associated Press and ABC News have not declared a winner in the presidential race, which hinges on a handful of uncalled battleground states.
