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President Buhari Congratulates Biden, Offers Advice On Freedom Of Choice, Democracy
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari.
Despite his crackdown on peaceful protesters, freedom of speech and assembly, President Muhammadu Buhari congratulated Joe Biden, President-elect of the United States of America, offering him advice on respecting the will of the people.
Buhari is notorious for numerous rights violations under his administration including the recent killing of peaceful protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate area of Lagos by the Nigerian Army on October 20, 2020.
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari.
In a statement on Saturday, he said, “Your election is a significant reminder that democracy is the best form of government because it offers the people the opportunity to change their government by peaceful means.
“The most powerful group are not the politicians, but voters who can decide the fate of the politicians at the polling booth.
“The main fascination of democracy is the freedom of choice and the supremacy of the will of the people.
“Respect for the will of the people is the very reason why democracy remains the best form of government, despite its limitations from one polity to another, and from one society to another.
“I am thrilled by the fact that you are an experienced politician who had served as Congressman for 40 years and a Vice President for eight years. This is a remarkable track record that gives us hope that you will add value to the Presidency and world affairs.
“With your election, we look forward to greater cooperation between Nigeria and the United States, especially at economic, diplomatic and political levels, including the war against terrorism.”
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Donald Trump’s Lawyer, Rudy Giuliani Says He Will Not Concede Defeat
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Rudy Giuliani has said President Donald Trump will not concede defeat in the US election.
According to CBS News, the president’s attorney disclosed this at a press conference shortly after Joe Biden was projected to become the 46th president of the United States.
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“He’s not going to concede when at least 600,000 ballots are in question,” Giuliani said in Philadelphia on Saturday.
He claimed without evidence that ballots were tampered with in Pennsylvania, the state that gave Biden the crucial Electoral College votes necessary to win the White House.
He was joined by three poll watchers who claimed they were prevented from adequately monitoring the ballot counting process.
Giuliani said he has statements from 25 watchers and has spoken to a total of 50 with similar stories.
“I could have brought about 50 with me,” Giuliani said, but he said he did not because “50 is too many,” and some were afraid of retribution.
According to Giuliani, the Trump campaign plans to file several federal lawsuits alleging the “uniform deprivation of the right to inspect” ballots.
He accused the “Democratic machine in Philadelphia” of tampering with counting, and “(keeping) the votes of dead people secret,” among other baseless accusations.
“Seems to me somebody from the Democratic National Committee sent out a note that said don’t let the Republicans look at those mail-in ballots,” Giuliani claimed, again without offering any evidence.
He claimed that Biden is gaining a lead in the state vote count after Election Day is proof of corruption.
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President Trump initially led in Pennsylvania but lost that lead after unprecedented numbers of mail-in ballots — which under state law are not allowed to be counted before Election Day — pushed Biden ahead.
“You just don’t lose leads like that without corruption,” Giuliani said, though it is not unusual for early leads to shift as more votes are tallied.
Asked about the call for President-elect Biden by major news networks, Giuliani mocked the media for harbouring “hateful biases” toward President Trump. “Networks don’t get to decide elections, courts do,” he said.
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Nigerian Returnee From South Africa Dies In Lagos Party, Police Arrest Five Friends
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested five friends over the death of a Nigerian, Mr Endurance Ero, who just returned from South Africa, and went out with the suspects to a party in the Surulere area.
The police operatives said, in an incident report obtained by SaharaReporters, that Ero, while taking some drinks with the friends – two men and three ladies – slumped and was rushed to the Randle Hospital, Surulere, where some doctors on duty certified him dead.
The operatives at Area C thereafter arrested the five friends identified as Kelvin Ajayi, Endurance Ajayi and females, Hope Igbinedion, Miracle Ubani, and Chinasa Anthony.
Family sources told SaharaReporters that the deceased had returned from South Africa on October 17, before deciding to hang out with his friends at the Rush Guest House located at Oyekan Street, Surulere, on the following day.
In the police report, Ero’s mother, Matunwo Chichi, said, “My son and his friend, Osagie, came back from South Africa on October 17 at about 3 pm. Then, at about 6 pm on the same date, he left the house that he wanted to visit his friend’s mother, but he did not return home.
“On October 18, at about 11 am, I was called on the phone that he had been rushed to Randle General Hospital, Surulere, and when I got there, I met him in a wheelchair, with blood coming out of his mouth and nose. Then, the doctors on duty pronounced him dead.”
Although no direct link to the death of the returnee had been established yet, the police report stated that the suspected persons and the case had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba, for “discreet investigation.”
The police report said, “Preliminary investigation revealed that the deceased was in the company of Kelvin Ajayi, Endurance Ajayi and females, Hope Igbinedion, Miracle Ubani, and Chinasa Anthony and went to drink in a guest house, named Rush located at Oyekan Street, Surulere.
“Suddenly, the deceased collapsed and started vomiting blood in his mouth and nose. He was rushed to the hospital, but the doctors on duty certified him dead. The photographs of his corpse have been taken and his corpse deposited at the Mainland General Hospital, Yaba, for an autopsy.
“The earlier mentioned suspected persons have been arrested, and the case will be transferred to the SCID, Panti, Yaba, for discreet investigation.”
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Letter To US President-elect Joe Biden By Azu Ishiekwene
Joe Biden
If Nigerians had a vote, you’ll probably not be the 46th President of the United States of America. A Pew Research Centre poll in January showed that two countries – Kenya and Nigeria – were still madly in love with lame duck President Donald J. Trump. You might wonder why in spite of your long list of transgressions against Trump – from his malicious negligence in the fight against Coronavirus to his congenital lying, and from race-baiting to his crooked politics – we still love him. It’s not about Trump, Mr. President-elect. It’s largely for two reasons: the first is the irony of those who even though they benefited from liberal US immigration policy, vigorously support Trump’s harsh U-turn. A vote for him would be a matter of economic self-interest. The second reason is more deeply ingrained. Nigerians share a lot of the conservative values of Trump’s Republican Party. Pretty much the same can be said for a number of African countries. We take family and faith very seriously. We are vigorously opposed to what may be judged reprobate relationship, especially one that tends to redefine the traditional marriage institution. Nigerians tend to recoil when people speak about such unusual social relationships – about gay and such things. They are often outraged when liberals proselytise them at gun-point.
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We love community, of course. Through the years, however, we have learnt from institutional failures and disappointments to fend for ourselves. Our memory of government in our lives, if it exists at all, is remote, bitter and ruthlessly predatory. The Republican line about limited government is an inspiring story, because our experience is not about limited government, but the near absence of it. We’re cousins of the Republicans. Not just in words, but in deeds, too. Minus President Ronald Reagan whose shameless support of apartheid in South Africa we will never forget, the jury is out on which Republican or Democratic president in the last four decades or so has been the best friend of Nigeria and of the continent. Bill Clinton was loved for his charisma and applauded for the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which sought to promote agricultural trade with Africa, though his hand-wringing during the Rwandan genocide that cost nearly one million lives will continue to hunt his African legacy. However, no other US president in the last three or four decades has equalled the contribution of Republican President George W. Bush. He will be remembered for making the most consequential intervention through the provision of antiretroviral drugs at a cost of about $80billion, which saved about 13million lives, mostly in Africa. Of course, we love President Barack Obama under whom the President-elect served as deputy and remember your tireless efforts in the Senate to repair bridges that angry Republicans blew up time and time again. But as you know, his bullishness on gay rights didn’t rub off well in a largely traditional society such as ours, never mind his stone-throwing at us from across the fence in neighbouring Ghana during a trip to that country eight years ago, still widely regarded in Nigeria as spite tourism. Let me come to the point. Why, in spite of all the nice things I have said about Republicans, were a significant number of Nigerians happy to help push Trump over the edge in days just before and after November 3? What changed after Pew? Trump’s vileness, which has always been there, took on a new malignancy. His public rejection of orderly transfer of power and his determination to live up to this threat; his race-baiting which needlessly raised tensions and put at risk public safety including the wellbeing of over 400,000 Nigerians in the US, were too much to bear. Before our eyes, Trump became not just a bad example, but a danger, likely to be copied by our copycat politicians. His Republican Party, too, has also shown that its own brand of conservatism habours hypocrisy. The party doubled down shamelessly on everything over which it criticised Obama – from the brazen packing of the Supreme Court with solicitous justices to the passage of an Olympian-size stimulus package and countless other minor crimes in-between. But there’s something even more personal. Trump has a hobby, a nasty hobby, of blocking Nigerian candidates for international positions, just for the heck of it. In May, he incited the Board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) against its president Akinwunmi Adesina’s second term bid. He insisted on dragging Adesina through the same mud the man had been cleared off. It was not about scrutiny, a word that Trump couldn’t spell to save his own life. It was a disgraceful witch-hunt orchestrated by Trump’s White House, period. The same scenario is playing out with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria/Africa’s candidate for the position of director general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), also backed by the European Union. The US has, so far, blocked Okonjo-Iweala’s candidacy conveniently citing her inexperience in trade, when any yam head can see that the real reason is because Washington thinks she has the support of China or even worse – that she could have a mind of her own. In the circumstance, supporting Trump or the remnant of his hijacked Republican Party was untenable. In a fate worse than Humpty Dumpty’s, not even African angels or aliens from Mars summoned to save Trump by his Spiritual Adviser, Paula White Cain, in a pathetic video which you may have seen, were disposed to help. What do we want? You have a full plate, if not a poisoned chalice. The bitter and deeply divisive elections with the legal challenges ahead; a hostile Senate and an even more hostile judiciary; and what to do about ongoing ravages of coronavirus and job losses, are enough to keep you awake at night. We also understand that in the midst of the current Trump wreckage there is a sense in which “America First” makes sense, no matter how obnoxious or obtuse it echoes. If our own leaders had not cheapened themselves, like former President Olusegun Obasanjo crawling to Bush to support his illegal third term bid; if former President Goodluck Jonathan had not been overcome by incompetence in the handling of the Boko Haram inviting insults from Obama; and if President Muhammadu Buhari is not behaving as if he is overwhelmed by the job, attracting scorn from Trump of all people, we would not be where we are today. Our leaders have let us down and we have played no small part in enabling them. In a way, Trump has earned his arrogance. Once the US saved itself from drowning in imported crude oil of which Nigeria was a major supplier, Trump felt liberated and entitled to bully his way or treat others with contempt. And we have had more than our fair share of both in these past four years. What we ask for, Mr. President-elect, is a fair shot for thousands of our citizens in the US who are either legally studying, working or visiting, and dignity for those trying to find a legal pathway to citizenship. The current situation where Trump-inspired race-baiting presumes every black person a criminal until they prove themselves innocent must stop and the significant black vote in this election is a demand for change. We also hope that once you’re done with your housekeeping – a daunting task if ever there was one – you’ll soon have to start rebuilding confidence in the American system badly damaged by your predecessor’s rascality. The same way Mitch McConnell promised to make Obama a “one-term president” from day one, Trump’s sympathisers in the different branches of government will do everything to defend his rotten legacy.From the role of America’s Peace Corps after Nigeria’s civil war, to its support for the pro-democracy movement and civil society in the 1990s, and from its support for institution-building through cultural exchanges to stabilisation and security in the sub-region under a rules-based system, the US has mostly been a force for good and a role model. That reputation is in tatters. It is difficult to rebuild it without, at some point, getting Trump to pay for the damage he has caused, while not making him a cause celebre in the process. Yet, holding him to account will not only send a signal that ruinous habits have consequences, it would also discourage copycats elsewhere, and send the message that the US is finally, open for business. Ishiekwene is MD/Editor-In-Chief of The Interview
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Boris Johnson, Bill Clinton, Macron, Other World Leaders Congratulate Joe Biden, Harris
A former US President, Bill Clinton, has congratulated Joe Biden on his election, saying it is a victory for democracy.
He said, “America has spoken, and democracy has won. Now we have a President-elect and Vice President-elect who will serve all of us and bring us all together. Congratulations to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on your momentous victory!.”
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Other world leaders have also reacted to the news. Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister, said he looked forward to working closely with the Biden administration on issues such as climate change, trade and security.
“Congratulations to Joe Biden on his election as President of the United States and Kamala Harris on her historic achievement.
“The US is our most important ally, and I look forward to working closely together on our shared priorities, from climate change to trade and security, “he said.
French President Emmanuel Macron extended his goodwill and called for increased corporation between the United States and France.
He said, “The Americans have chosen their President. Congratulations to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris! We have a lot to do to overcome today’s challenges. Let’s work together!”
Abiy Ahmed Ali, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, said, “My congratulations to US President-Elect @JoeBiden and Vice President-Elect @KamalaHarris on your historic #Election2020 win. #Ethiopia looks forward to working closely with you.”
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E2%80%99s-cousins-can%E2%80%99t-wait-be-born-azu-ishiekwene Trump’s Cousins Can’t Wait To Be Born By Azu Ishiekwene
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I suspected the pregnancy will not be carried to full term and now, it’s playing out. Even before the US electoral monster conceived by President Donald J. Trump was weaned, a few African countries are already taking delivery of their own premature electoral monster babies. We saw that in Mali a few months ago when the military cited fraudulent elections as the reason for toppling President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, leaving the regional body, ECOWAS, confused and stranded. Alpha Conde followed in Guinea by maneuvering himself in place for a third term presidency. Tanzania is the latest theatre. While we were riveted on the cable networks following the pathetic US elections, Tanzanian President John Magufuli wangled his way back to power for a second term in a landslide victory that Trump could only envy. Magufuli could not wait to win — and he won in a way that left his opponent, Tundu Lissu of the Chadema party, with just enough breath to thank God that he survived and none to spare for any post-election complaints.
The ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) also made a clean sweep of the legislature with 97 percent of the seats in its control. Just the place that Trump would love to have former Vice President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, if he could.
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Magufuli’s government launched the first attack about three years ago with a charge of sedition, brought against Lissu and three other Tanzanian journalists. Lissu who later indicated interest in running for presidency, had called Magufuli a “petty dictator”, something close to a mortal sin in that country today. The state was mad. Even though reasonable Tanzanians can’t find a better word – or even another word – to described Magufuli’s clampdown on press freedom and opposition, the state was nonetheless livid that Lissu had the effrontery to call out the president. To make matters worse, he was also nursing the idea of challenging him in the October presidential poll. But neither the sedition trial nor the recent assassination attempts on Lissu that left his car with over 20 bullet holes has broken his determination to challenge the increasingly tyrannical system. On the eve of the presidential election in Tanzania last week, Lissu and other members of the opposition expressed concerns about the prevailing cloud of intimidation and warned of systemic attempts to rig the election to pave the way for a Magufuli electoral landslide. Magufuli’s government has made a good job silencing the opposition, including restricting access to social media under the convenient posture that he is the bulwark against so-called imperialism. Somehow, a man who has spent more time making a fetish of himself as a messiah of sorts yet on whose watch living conditions among Tanzanians have barely improved, still managed to beat his own first term electoral record by clearing 84 percent of the votes, leaving a generous 13 percent for his closest rival. East African election observers found nothing wrong with the vote. They arrived in Dodoma with blinkers supplied by the African Union which see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. The observers could not even pretend to be uncomfortable with reports of widespread voter suppression or the electoral system that could not be challenged anywhere once results were declared. They simply rubber-stamped Magufuli’s re-election and took the next plane. In the past, the US would have spoken out loud and clear against the travesty in Dodoma on October 28. For months now, human rights groups and civil society organisations in Tanzania and elsewhere have been warning about deteriorating conditions there, but the US has been too far gone in its Trump malaise to either pay attention or to be sure its attention would be meaningful. There was some noise, of course — a muffled sound from US Ambassador to Tanzania, Donald J. Wright, who tweeted on November 2: “Reports of arrests of opposition leaders are extremely concerning,” adding, “I urge the government to ensure the safety and security of all opposition leaders, cease these targeted arrests, release detainees, restore telecommunications, and afford due process under the law to all citizens.” That was before November 3, when the elections in the US started, leaving Magufuli looking like a Boy’s Scout in the business of electoral hubris. There is more in play. President Alassane Quattara of Cote d’Ivoire has arm-twisted the country’s parliament to give him a third-term. In an election he was not qualified to contest and which was boycotted by the opposition after weeks of violent repression claimed 40 lives, Quattara said he won 94 percent of the vote on Monday. Not a single prominent continental voice has squished. From Rwanda to Uganda and from Togo to Guinea, there is a growing tendency among leaders on the continent to bend the rules to secure their grip illegitimately or extend their stay in power. And there’s hardly any question that these rule-benders share the same umbilical cord with President Trump into whose political family the world could well expect more deliveries of fraudulent electoral manipulators sooner than later. Under Trump, the US has shed all pretence to the lofty standards and values that once defined American exceptionalism. We can criticise Magufuli, Conde and others all we want, but they share a common bond in shenanigans with the US president. Where Trump maliciously impedes the postal service and defames constitutionally provided mail-in ballots; his cousins elsewhere bend the rules to exclude other candidates from the ballot.
Where Trump wants vote counting to stop and for him to be declared winner regardless, his cousins elsewhere simply write the figures and ask the electoral body to announce them. And where Trump packs the Supreme Court with justices sympathetic to him in expectation of an electoral quid pro quo, his cousins elsewhere put electoral disputes out of the reach of judicial review. The difference perhaps is that while voters elsewhere will throw their dictators under the bus if they could; the voting pattern in the current US election suggests that just as many US voters love Trump warts-and-all, as those who genuinely believe the system is broken and has become a danger to itself and the world. The Trump era and the undisguised pushback to retain it even at the polls, is one of the most damaging legacies of the last four years. It will cover the US in shame long after Trump is gone.
Ishiekwene is the MD/Editor-In-Chief of The Interview
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E2%80%94donald-trump Media Can’t Decide Who The Next US President Is Because Election Is Far From Over —Donald Trump
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President Donald Trump has said the Tuesday election is far from over, saying his main rival, Joe Biden, has not been certified as the winner of the poll.
Trump said this in a statement on Saturday, while reacting to the projection of Biden as the 46th president of the US.
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He said the media could not decide the next American president.
The statement read, “We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to pose as the winner falsely… his media allies are trying so hard to help him: they don’t want the truth to be exposed.
“The simple fact is this election is far from over. Joe Biden has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor.
“In Pennsylvania, for example, our legal observers were not permitted meaningful access to watch the counting process. Legal votes decide who is president, not the news media.
“Beginning Monday, our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court to ensure election laws are fully upheld, and the rightful winner is seated. The American People are entitled to an honest election: that means counting all legal ballots, and not counting any illegal ballots.
“This is the only way to ensure the public has full confidence in our election. It remains shocking that the Biden campaign refuses to agree with this basic principle and wants ballots counted even if they are fraudulent, manufactured, or cast by ineligible or deceased voters. Only a party engaged in wrongdoing would unlawfully keep observers out of the courtroom – and then fight in court to block their access.
“So what is Biden hiding? I will not rest until the American People have the honest vote count they deserve and that Democracy demands.”
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Barack Obama Congratulates Biden, Harris, Says Massive Challenges Ahead
Barack Obama, former President of the United States of America, has congratulated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for emerging the 46th president and Vice President-elect.
Biden had been neck to neck with incumbent president Donald Trump in what is being considered the tightest race in American history.
He won by clinching Pennsylvania a battleground state.
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He will become the 46th President of the United States of America while Kamala Harris will become the first female and black person to become Vice President.
Obama who campaigned massively for Biden, who once served side-by-side with him said, “I could not be prouder to congratulate our next President, Joe Biden, and our next First Lady, Jill Biden.
“We’re fortunate that Joe’s got what it takes to be President and already carries himself that way. Because when he walks into the White House in January, he’ll face a series of extraordinary challenges no incoming President ever has – a raging pandemic, an unequal economy and justice system, a democracy at risk, and a climate in peril.”
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Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo.
Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday, congratulated Democrat Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, over their ‘victory’ in the US election.
Obasanjo, in a congratulatory letter made available to The PUNCH by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, described the ‘feat’ achieved by the two Democrats as “victory of good over evil”.
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The former Nigerian leader wrote, “It is the victory of good over evil and it is not a victory for you and the people of America alone, but a victory for most people of the world, majority of whom watch helplessly as the world that had been steadily and painstakingly built since the end of the Second World War was being pulled down.
“Not that the world was perfect and equitable, but it was reasonably predictable with some measure of the rule of law and respect for international agreements and treaties.
“President-Elect Joe Biden must restore confidence in the role of America as the largest economy in the world which has very significant responsibility for the peace, security, stability and progress of the world.
“I felicitate with Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris as the first female Vice-President of the U.S. We in Africa are proud of her success.”
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Major international and US-based TV networks projected on Saturday that Biden won the U.S. presidency over Donald Trump, a victory sealed after the Democrat claimed several key battleground states won by the Republican incumbent in 2016.
Checks by The PUNCH showed that CNN, NBC News, CBS News, BBC and Al Jazeera, amongst others, called the race in Biden’s favour, after projecting he had won the decisive state of Pennsylvania.
The media platforms reported that Biden beat Trump with a projected 284 electoral college votes to emerge the 46th president of the United States.
Biden, 77, is the oldest candidate ever elected to the White House. Trump, 74, has made as yet unsubstantiated claims of massive voter fraud, and his campaign has launched legal challenges in several states.
Biden spent eight years as vice president to Barack Obama. His victory comes in his third run for the nation’s highest office.
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E2%80%94-twitter-flags-post-fake-news I Won This Election, Donald Trump Says — Twitter Flags Post As Fake News
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Donald Trump, President of the United States, is falsely claiming to have won the 2020 presidential election.
Democratic candidate Joe Biden defeated Trump by taking a massive lead in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
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Biden had been neck to neck with incumbent president Donald Trump in what is being considered the tightest race in American history.
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The former vice president will become the 46th President of the United States of America while Kamala Harris will become the first female and black person to become Vice President.
Few moments before the election result was declared in Biden’s favour, Trump falsely tweeted without evidence, “I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!” I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2020
His post was immediately flagged as misleading by Twitter.
Trump has vowed to explore legal means to challenge the results. He claimed without evidence the election was rigged.
His lawyers are expected to hold a press conference at the Four Seasons Landscaping in Philadelphia by 11:30 EST.
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