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Speaking late on Friday, Biden also highlighted his popular vote margin of over four million against President Trump.
“The numbers tell us a clear and convincing story: We’re going to win this race.”
He also appealed for unity in the country following a divisive campaign and voting, saying “we may be opponents, but we are not enemies.”
Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows tests positive of COVID
Mark Meadows, the chief of staff of US President Donald Trump, has tested positive of the coronavirus.
According to reports from the White House late on Friday, Meadows has informed a close circle of advisors about his health condition.
Meadows is the leading the White House’s legal strategy as it challenges the result of the November 3 election, which currently shows the incumbent president losing his re-election to Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
Trump demands ‘explanation’ about this electoral numbers
US President Donald Trump has posted anew on social media demanding “explanation” about his electoral prospects.
Trump is behind his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden in the electoral vote count, prompting him to complain about alleged “cheating” without offering any proof.
“We need an explanation as to how these numbers have been running up for the last two or three days.” Matthew Whitaker. @EveningEdit
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2020
Trump supporters in Arizona continue to protest for a third day
Supporters of President Donald Trump continued protests for a third day outside an election centre in Arizona’s capital, while the state’s Maricopa County said there were around 90,000 ballots left to count.
As of Friday night, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden still led Trump by around 30,000 votes across the state, according to the Arizona Republic.
In a statement released on Friday night, Maricopa County’s Elections Department said that it still need to process an estimated 72,000 early ballots, another 15,000 provisional ballots, and an additional 5,000 early ballots still needing verification.
“This is the highest number of ballots ever received by Maricopa County, and the Elections Department is on track to complete reporting faster than ever before,” the department said.
Continuing their third night of protests at the centre, demonstrators claim that what they see as slow ballot counting is part of an effort to steal the election from Trump.
Trump himself has made similar claims on Twitter and during press briefings, saying without evidence that supposedly illegal votes had been cast and that the Democrats had rigged the election.
But Matt Muchna, a Democratic voter, said that the results were looking “positive for a blue flip”, referring to the chance of the Democrats taking the state’s 11 electoral votes for the first time since 1996.
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