No way Biden got 80 million votes – President Trump laments rigging

President Donald Trump is staying completely undecided on conceding to Joe Biden and claiming without evidence that he was cheated by widespread election fraud in the US presidential election.

On Tuesday, President-elect Joe Biden’s total tally of votes surpassed 80 million, making him the first-ever presidential candidate in United States history to achieve that feat.

Currently, the Democrat has 80,063,589 votes to Donald Trump’s 73,904,195.

Reacting on Twitter on Thursday November 26, President Trump claimed he just saw the vote tabulations and that there was no way Biden could gather 80,000,000 votes in the presidential election.

He also insisted on previous claims that the election was ‘100%’ rigged.

Trump wrote: “Just saw the vote tabulations. There is NO WAY Biden got 80,000,000 votes!!! This was a 100% RIGGED ELECTION.”

Twitter immediately affixed a label to the tweet warning users that the ‘claim about election fraud is disputed.’

However, the U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden.

It was the closest he has come to conceding the Nov. 3 election, even as he repeated his unfounded claims of massive voter fraud.

Trump told reporters during the Thanksgiving Holiday, that if Democrat Biden – who is due to be sworn in on Jan. 20 – is certified the election winner by the Electoral College, he will depart the White House.

But Trump said it would be hard for him to concede under the current circumstances and declined to say whether he would attend Biden’s inauguration.

“This election was a fraud,” Trump insisted in a sometimes rambling discourse at the White House, while continuing to offer no concrete evidence of widespread voting irregularities.

Biden won the election with 306 Electoral College votes – many more than the 270 required – to Trump’s 232. The electors are scheduled to meet on Dec. 14 to formalize the outcome. Then on 6 January, 2021, Congress will ratify the result.

Biden also leads Trump by more than 6 million in the popular vote tally.

Trump has so far refused to fully acknowledge his defeat, though last week – with mounting pressure from his own Republican ranks – he agreed to let Biden’s transition process officially proceed.

Asked if he would leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for Biden, Trump said: “Certainly I will. Certainly I will. And you know that.”

“But I think that there will be a lot of things happening between now and the 20th of January. A lot of things,” he said.

“Massive fraud has been found. We’re like a third world country.”

Desperate efforts by Trump and his aides to overturn results in key states, either by lawsuits or by pressuring state legislators, have failed, and he is running out of options.

In the United States, a candidate becomes president by securing the most “electoral” votes rather than by winning a majority of the national popular vote.