The President of the United States, Donald Trump, on Saturday rejected the victory of Democratic Party candidate, Joe Biden.
Trump made the rejection known in a statement shortly after the media projected the victory of Biden, a former Vice-President.
According to Trump, the election was deeply flawed, adding that he would be heading to court on Monday to challenge the poll.
He said: “We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner, and why his media allies are trying so hard to help him: they don’t want the truth to be exposed. The simple truth is that the election is far from over.”
Trump said Biden had not been certified as the winner of any states.
The president said his observers were not allowed to witness the counting of ballots in Pennsylvania which handed Biden his final victory.
Trump said: “THE OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTING ROOMS. I WON THE ELECTION, GOT 71,000,000 LEGAL VOTES. BAD THINGS HAPPENED WHICH OUR OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE. NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WERE SENT TO PEOPLE WHO NEVER ASKED FOR THEM!”
Meanwhile, the former United States Vice president and the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, Joe Biden, had been elected the 46th president of the United States of America.
Biden, 77, won the keen-fought election by scoring 284 Electoral College votes against incumbent President Donald Trump’s 214.
Kamala Harris, Mr Biden’s running mate, made history as the first woman to be elected U.S. vice president.
The result of the election was announced Saturday after several tense days of vote-counting in many battlegrounds. Before the Election Day on Tuesday, about 100 million votes had been cast.
Mr Biden got the victory in his third attempt at the presidency.
In a tweet after the result was announced, Mr Biden wrote: “America, I’m honored that you have chosen me to lead our great country.
The work ahead of us will be hard, but I promise you this: I will be a President for all Americans — whether you voted for me or not.
I will keep the faith that you have placed in me.”
Mrs Harris, a senator, tweeted: “This election is about so much more than @JoeBiden or me. It’s about the soul of America and our willingness to fight for it. We have a lot of work ahead of us. Let’s get started.”
