Trump asks the judiciary to suspend vote counting in Michigan
US President Donald Trump's campaign said today that it has submitted a request to stop the vote count in Michigan, adding that Republicans have been prevented from counting votes in some areas of the state.
The Trump campaign request comes as the preliminary results show the progress of the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, in Michigan, which has 16 delegates in the electoral college.
Edison Center figures indicate that Biden is leading by 49.4 percent, while Trump received 48.8 percent, after 99 percent of the votes were counted.
At the electoral college level, which contains 538 top voters, Biden has so far led with 238 votes.
In contrast, Trump received 213 votes while a candidate needed 270 votes to secure victory.
The Trump campaign manager asserted that victory would be for the widely supported Republican candidate who won a number of swinging and critical states.
For its part, Biden's campaign said it also favored the victory of the Democratic candidate, stressing that he would get more than the 270 votes required to win.
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he was ahead in several states yesterday in front of his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, but the results began to magically change, while the Biden campaign showed optimism about victory.
The Republican candidate condemned what he saw as the emergence of surprise ballots in an attempt to tip Biden, who is leading so far with 238 votes in the electoral college.
Earlier, Trump confirmed that he had "won" the elections, despite the continuous count of votes, and said in a brief speech at the White House, "We will win (the elections) ... for me we have already won."
Trump spoke of "fraud" and confirmed that he intends to go to the Supreme Court, adding, "We are ready to celebrate something wonderful," according to Reuters.
Trump said that a "very miserable group of people" were trying to deprive him of millions of votes, and announced that he would go to the Supreme Court to object to the vote count.
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