His Democratic rival, Joe Biden, has won the state of
Michigan, according to the Associated Press as well as other US media. Trump
supporters chanted "stop the count" outside the TCF center in
Detroit, Michigan where ballots were being processed. Michigan's Secretary of
State Jocelyn Benson called Trump's legal action to end counting in the state
"frivolous," according to Reuters. She gave her assurance that all of
the valid ballots cast in Michigan had been accurately and securely tabulated.
The Trump campaign is also suing to freeze the vote count in Pennsylvania where
the president has sought the Supreme Court's intervention to exclude the
processing of mail-in ballots that arrived after the closing of polls despite
state law allowing for them to be counted. The race in Pennsylvania remained
undecided on Wednesday as a significant number of ballots remain to counted in
the state which received 3.1 million mail-in ballots. State law allows them to
be counted if they are postmarked by November 3 and received by Friday.
Trump has made unprecedented and unsubstantiated claims of
fraud and declared victory in states that have either been called for Biden or
not been called so far. Biden, in an address to his supporters, said the count
should continue in all states. "No one's going to take our democracy away
from us, not now, not ever," he said on Wednesday. Election officials
continue to count votes across the United States in a process that usually
follows election day. What is unusual this time is that states have to deal
with a vast number of mail-in ballots that were driven by fear of in-person
voting during the coronavirus pandemic
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