US Election 2020: Biden Takes Big Stride To Winning Presidency, Trump Claims Fraud

Unless one candidate notches up enough states for total victory earlier, the struggle could end up in Pennsylvania, which is likely to see the messiest counting process.

Democrat Joe Biden took a huge step Wednesday, November 4, to capturing the White House, with wins in Michigan and Wisconsin bringing him close to a majority, but President Donald Trump responded with a diatribe alleging mass fraud and demanding a halt to vote counting.

In a brief address on national television, flanked by American flags and his vice presidential pick Kamala Harris, Biden said he wasn’t yet declaring victory, but said that “when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners.”

By flipping the northern battlegrounds of Michigan and Wisconsin, Biden reached 264 electoral votes against 214 so far for Trump. By adding the 6 of Nevada, where he is narrowly ahead, he would hit the magic number of 270 needed to win the White House.

In stark contrast to Trump’s increasingly heated rhetoric about being cheated, Biden sought to project calm, reaching out to a nation torn by 4 years of polarizing leadership and traumatized by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I know how deep and hard the opposing views are in our country on so many things,” Biden, 77, said.

“But I also know this as well: to make progress we have to stop treating our opponents as enemies. We are not enemies. What brings us together as Americans is so much stronger than anything that can tear us apart.”