On Wed. Nov. 4, President Donald Trump sent out a false victory tweet early in the morning saying, “We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the election. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after the Polls are closed!” 

On Thurs. Nov. 5, former President Donald Trump spoke to the public at the White House for the first time since election day. The worried Republican went up to the lectern saying false accusations against the system that counts the ballots and also that the Democratic Party is trying to take the election without showing the public some sort of evidence. Trump seemed to ignore the fact that some states take quite a while to count millions of ballots and mailed in ones, as well.

The president invalidated the Democratic votes saying, “If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us.” After he was done speaking, Trump immediately walked out of the briefing room without taking any questions from any reporters. 

This comes after states like Michigan and Wisconsin, who were previously red states, ended up becoming blue states. Securing these states gave Democratic candidate Joe Biden the extra boost he needed to get closer to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the election.  

Joe Biden made a public appearance in Delaware, urging the American public to stay calm and patient, as all the votes will soon be counted. Biden did not take any questions, but was confident he would win the election stating, “It is the will of the voters, no one, not anything else, that chooses the president of the United States of America,” he said. “Democracy is sometimes messy. It sometimes requires a little patience as well. But that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years with a system of governance that’s been the envy of the world.”

The Trump campaign has confirmed they will go to the Supreme Court to stop the states from following the law that allows votes postmarked before election day to be counted.  

The president told CNN reporters, “We’re going to go on the night of, as soon as the election is over, we’re going in with our lawyers. If people wanted to get their ballots in, they should have gotten their ballots in long before that.” 

Republican National Committee Spokesperson Elizabeth Harrington was also active on twitter, defending the false allegations that Trump made about the Democrats, saying, “President Trump is up over 15 POINTS in PA. Joe Biden just announced that crooked Philadelphia will find enough votes to declare him victor, *after* Election Day.” Harrington’s tweet has since been censored by Twitter for spreading misleading information about the election. 

This was not the first time Trump has accused the election process of being unreliable. During the 2016 elections, when Clinton was projected to win, he claimed the election was rigged. When he won the election, the former president blamed illegal immigrants by saying, “They were the only reason Clinton won 3 million more votes.” 

The Trump campaign had also launched an investigation into voter fraud during the last election and no evidence was found supporting his claims. The American public anxiously awaits Trump’s removal from power, and many worry that it will not be an easy, stree-free process.