President Trump responds to Joe Biden’s remarks on US Election status

US Election candidate Joe Biden on Wednesday 4 November 2020 addressed supporters in Delaware, saying that he was monitoring the influx of votes in Michigan and Wisconson. President Trump tweeted in response.

Joe Biden’s speech

Biden said after a “long night of counting”, victory could very well be his and that the party are “winning enough votes to win the presidency”. However, Biden made it clear that he wasn’t proclaiming victory yet, unlike Trump.

“I’m not here to report that we’ve won, I am going to report that officially just yet. […] Of special significance is that we won with the majority of the American people. And every indication is the majority will grow”.

As it stands, Biden is projected to win Wisconsin and Michigan. He had already “flipped Arizona and the second district of Nebraska”. Biden felt hopeful about Pennsylvania too, saying they’ve “been winning 78% of votes by mail”.

Trump’s reaction to Biden’s speech

As expected, Trump could not resist the opportunity to take a jab at Biden on Twitter. Trump predictably tweeted that his team claimed “BIG Trump lead” and mentioned “dumped ballots”.

“We have claimed, for Electoral Vote purposes, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (which won’t allow legal observers) the State of Georgia, and the State of North Carolina, each one of which has a BIG Trump lead. Additionally, we hereby claim the State of Michigan if, in fact, there was a large number of secretly dumped ballots as has been widely reported!”

Needless to say, Twitter once again censored Trump’s tweet by warning readers that “some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process”.

Earlier today, Trump took to Twitter and bemoaned the vote-counting process, stating “they are finding Biden votes all over the place, in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. So bad for our Country!”

US Elections: Trump’s false claims

President Donald Trump made headlines today after he uttered several false claims. Not only were these claims disproved, but Facebook and Twitter were forced to take action and curb POTUS’ spread of misinformation.

Twitter flagged several of the president’s tweet as “potentially misleading claims”, while Facebook added warnings below his posts and redirected users to the platform’s election information centre.

Both Facebook and Twitter prepared for the 2020 US election; both adopted explicit policies against premature victory announcements back in September 2020 already.

The president claimed, amongst other things, that a group of “very sad people are trying to disenfranchise” his supporters by limiting people’s right to vote, while Democrats were merely calling for “every vote to be counted”.

Trump also claimed that he “frankly did win this election”, and that his team would be “going to the US Supreme Court stop all voting”. It must be noted that voting was already over and the counting of votes was underway.

Read more here: Breakdown: Trump’s claims and how the public reacted