Donald Trump is refusing to accept the voters decision that he will be a one-term president.
Last night, he launched an astonishing, 17-minute tirade from the White House briefing room where he claimed to be the victim of a conspiracy by big tech, big money, the Democrats and the media.
He has vowed not to accept the final results, and his own children are telling the country to ‘fight to the death’ not to accept them either.
In a series of tweets sent at 2.30am, Trump continued his tirade – attacking social media regulation, making baseless claims of fraud, casting doubt over several close Senate races, and calling on the Supreme Court to intervene.
In a statement this morning, his campaign team said the election was ‘far from over’.
They said it was a ‘false projection’ that Biden would win.
But that is not true.
According to projections made by JimHeath.TV, Biden has won Pennsylvania and Nevada today, bringing his electoral vote total to 290, well above the 270 he needs to win.
Based on the counting of legal ballots cast before or on election day, Joe Biden is the president-elect of the United States.
In addition, Joe Biden has won the most nationwide votes of any presidential candidate in American history.
Trump, never expected to be gracious in defeat, released this statement this morning through his campaign attorney:
Yesterday, Biden called for calm and patience while the votes are counted.
‘Democracy is sometimes messy. It sometimes requires a little patience as well,’ the former vice president said. ‘So I ask everyone to stay calm, all people to stay calm. The process is working. No one is going to take our democracy away from us.’
Biden is expected to address the nation later this evening.
Meanwhile Donald Trump Jr gave a speech in Georgia last night, where Biden leads by about 1,000 votes, calling for his father to ‘fight to the death’ and urging him to ‘go to war’ to ‘expose all of the fraud that has been going on for far too long.’
‘Americans need to know that this is not a banana republic and right now very few people have faith that’s not the case,’ he added.
At the podium in the briefing room last night, Trump read from from a script and listed his grievances at Biden’s campaign, ‘suppression polls’ and ‘fraud.’
He left without taking a question as CNN’s White House reporter Jim Acosta shouted: ‘Are you a sore loser?’ – then his press secretary Kayleigh McEnany had to scuttle back to the podium because he had forgotten to take his notes with him.
Trump’s condemnation of the entire democratic system and his growing list of enemies was switched off rapidly by TV network after TV network.
MSNBC anchor Brian Williams said as they turned away less than a minute in: ‘Here we go again.’
CNN was among the few channels to air the president’s full speech, after which Anderson Cooper said Trump was ‘like an obese turtle flailing in the sun.’
‘That is the President of the United States,’ Anderson commented. ‘That is the most powerful person in the world and we see him like an obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun realizing his time is over. But he just hasn’t accepted it and he wants to take everybody down with him, including this country.’
Republicans also turned on him within minutes with Larry Hogan, the Maryland governor, saying: ‘There is no defense. No person or election is more important than our democracy.’
GOP rep Adam Klinzinger called it ‘insane.’