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US election: President Trump claims Democrats made his lead magically disappear

Wednesday, November 04, 2020 at 5:28 PM by Kess Ewubare

- President Donald Trump has alleged that there is a conspiracy in the US election

- Trump accused the Democrats of manipulating the vote-counting process

- The US president faulted the counting of mail-in-ballots

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The President of the United States, Donald Trump has again cast doubt on the vote-counting process in the US presidential election.

US election: President Trump says Democrats made his lead magically disappear — President Donald Trump speaks on election night in the East Room of the White House. Photo by Chip Somodevilla
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Trump in a tweet on Wednesday, November 4, claimed that the Democrats made his early lead in the election to magically disappear.

The US president alleged that he was leading strongly in many states before his lead began to magically disappear one by one.

Trump said:

"Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled. Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE, and the “pollsters” got it completely & historically wrong!"

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He doubled down on his criticism of the mail-in ballots and questioned why mail-in ballots had a high percentage.

Trump had previously called for the counting of mail-in-ballots to be stopped. He said his legal team will head to court immediately after the US presidential election to challenge the counting of late ballots.

The president made the statement on Sunday, November 1, when speaking to reporters in Charlotte ahead of a rally in Hickory, North Carolina, The Guardian reported.

He raised doubts over mail and absentee votes, and questioned why the counting of late arriving ballots should be allowed after election day.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden's camp has described as "outrageous, unprecedented and incorrect" the threats by Donald Trump to use the Supreme Court to stop the counting of the ballots in the US election.

Jen O’Malley Dillon, Biden’s campaign manager, issued this rebuttal in a reaction on Wednesday, November 4.