By Geoffrey Smith
Investing.com -- President Donald Trump claimed victory in the U.S. election and threatened action in the Supreme Court to curtail a vote count that is still continuing in a handful of key swing states.
“We will win this, and as far as I’m concerned, we already have won it,” Trump told supporters at an event that - in defiance of tradition - was held at the White House.
Trump has already effectively won some key states such as Texas, Florida and Ohio, insofar as the result is already beyond reasonable doubt after the counting of a majority of votes.
However, the vote count in states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Nevada and Pennsylvania remains in doubt, given the deluge of mail-in ballots that still need to be processed. Consequently, both Trump and his opponent Joe Biden still have clear pathways to victory in the electoral college.
Trump again conflated the issue of votes that haven't yet been counted with his previous unsupported allegations of vote fraud by his opponents.
"We want the voting to stop," Trump said. "This is a fraud on the American public, this is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election and, frankly, we did win this election.”
All the results announced so far are preliminary projections, as is usual.