Multiple U.S. networks are projecting Democratic Party leader Joe Biden will win the 2020 U.S. presidential election, unseating incumbent President Donald Trump.
With mail-in ballots making up hundreds and thousands of votes, the counting process continued for several days, coming to a nail-biting conclusion on Saturday.
After networks projected Pennsylvania will turn blue for the Democrats, it became clear that Biden would attain the 270 electoral votes needed to win the election.
While Trump and his campaign team declared victory in several states Tuesday night — including key states like Michigan and Pennsylvania — the vote count on Wednesday morning made it clear that Biden is projected to win those states.
The incumbent President went so far as to claim he had won the entire election during a speech.
Trump and his most ardent supporters are now refusing to accept vote counts, claiming there have been a “large number of secretly dumped ballots”.
As explained by CNN fact checker Daniel Dale, these “dumps” refer to “a substantial number of newly counted votes from a particular state or county entered into (“dumped” into) the public totals.”
The President essentially claimed it is a “terrible thing” that mail-in votes were being counted, many of which turned states that Republicans were in the lead in last night into a victory for the Democrats.
Incessant false claims by Trump and his supporters led Twitter to block many of their posts from view, due to their misleading nature.
The Trump campaign has also begun raising money to possibly legally challenge vote counts in close states, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
