Twitter has flagged United States (US) President Donald Trump’s tweet alleging an effort to “steal the election” as a neck-and-neck contest continues between the incumbent president and Democratic challenger Joe Biden for the key to the White House.
“We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the election. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after the polls are closed!” Trump had tweeted.
A warning hiding the tweet read, “Some or all of the content shared in this tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process.”
It, however, can be viewed by clicking on Twitter’s statement being displayed on Trump’s feed.
US ELECTION UPDATE:
By the time this report was filed, Trump had the lead over Democratic rival Joe Biden in the vital battleground of Florida and other US swing states, but Biden pinned his White House hopes on Arizona and a “blue wall” of three Rust Belt states that could take days to count their votes.
Biden’s hopes for a decisive early defeat of Trump faded as the president took solid leads in Florida, Georgia, Ohio and Texas. Fox News projected Trump would win Florida, a must-win state in his quest for 270 Electoral College votes.
Biden, 77, was eyeing the so-called “blue wall” states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that sent Trump, 74, to the White House in 2016 for possible breakthroughs, although vote counting could stretch for hours or days there.
Trump held early leads in those three states, but much of that was built on Republican-heavy Election Day voting. The counting of Democratic-heavy mail-in ballots in all three states was expected to take hours or days. In Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and much of Michigan, mail-in ballots were not processed until Election Day.
Winning those three states would be enough to give Biden an Electoral College victory. Fox News projected Biden would win Arizona, another state that voted for Trump in 2016, giving him more options to get to 270 Electoral College votes.
Even without Pennsylvania, Biden wins in Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin, as well as a congressional district in either Maine or Nebraska, which apportion their electoral votes by district, would put him in the White House, as long as he also holds onto the states that Trump lost in 2016.
