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Presidential Race Undecided; Republicans Ramp Up Litigation Amid Trump's Wild Charges

 Officials continue count votes around the country.  In the afternoon former Vice President Biden made a statement calling for calm and declaring "we have no doubt that when the count is finished, Senator Harris and I will be the winners."  In the evening President Trump spoke, charging "they're trying to steal an election. They're trying to rig an election. And we can't let that happen."

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Biden for President
November 5, 2020

Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Vice President Joe Biden in Wilmington, Delaware

Good afternoon.

Senator Harris and I just completed full briefings on both the COVID and economic crises facing the nation.

We’re reminded again of the severity of this pandemic: Cases are on the rise nationwide, and we are nearing 240,000 deaths due to COVID.  

My heart goes out to each and every family that has lost a loved one to this terrible disease. 

In America, the vote is sacred. 

It’s how the people of this nation express their will. 

And it is the will of the voters, no one — and not anything else — that chooses the President of the United States.

So, each ballot must be counted and that’s what is going on now.

And that’s how it should be.

Democracy is sometimes messy, so sometimes it requires a little patience.

But that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years with a system of governance that has been the envy of the world.

We continue to feel very good about where things stand.

And we have no doubt that when the count is finished, Senator Harris and I will be the winners.

So, I ask people to stay calm. 

The process is working. 

The count is being completed. 

And we will know soon.

Thank you.

My God Bless You, and may God protect our troops.

President Donald J. Trump
The White House
November 5, 2020

6:46 p.m.

Thank you very much. Thank you.

Good evening, I'd like to provide the American people with an update on our efforts to protect the integrity of our very important 2020 election. If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. If you count the votes that came in late, we're looking at them very strongly, but a lot of votes came in late.

I've already decisively won many critical states including massive victories in Florida, Iowa Indiana, Ohio, to name just a few. We won these and many other victories despite historic election interference from big media, big money and big tech; as everybody so we won by historic numbers.

And the pollsters got it knowingly wrong; they got it knowingly wrong. We had polls that were so ridiculous, and everybody knew it at the time. There was no blue wave that they predicted. They thought there was going to be a big blue wave. That was false; it was done for suppression reasons, but instead there was a big red wave and it's been properly acknowledged actually by the media. They were I think very impressed, but that was after the fact; that doesn't do us any good.

We kept the Senate despite having twice as many seats to defend as Democrats and in a really much more competitive states. We've, we did a fantastic job with the Senate; I think we're very proud of what's happened there. We had many more seats to defend. They spent almost $200 million on Senate races in South Carolina and Kentucky alone, two races, and hundreds of millions of dollars overall against us.

At the national level our opponents' major donors were Wall Street bankers and special interests; our major donors were police officers, farmers, everyday citizens. Yet for the first time ever, we lost zero races in the House. I was talking to Kevin McCarthy today. He said he couldn't believe it. Zero races, very unusual thing. Zero. And actually won many new seats with I think many more on the way.

This was also the year of the Republican woman. More Republican women were elected to Congress than ever before. That's a great achievement. I won the largest share of non-white voters of any Republican in 60 years, including historic numbers of Latino, African American, Asian American and Native American voters. The largest ever in our history. We grew our party by four million voters, the greatest turnout in Republican Party history.

Democrats are the party of the big donors, the big media, the big tech it seems, and Republicans have become the party of the American worker and that's what's happened. And we're also I believe the party of inclusion.

As everyone now recognizes media polling was election interference in the truest sense of that word by powerful special interests. These really phony polls, I have to call them phony polls, fake polls, were designed to keep our voters at home, create the illusion of momentum for Mr. Biden and diminish Republicans' ability to raise funds. They were what's called suppression polls; everyone knows that now. And it's never been used to the extent that it's been used in this last election.

To highlight just a few examples the day before election, Quinnipiac, which was wrong on every occasion that I know of, had Joe Biden up by five points in Florida, and they were off by 8.4 points and I won Florida easily, easily. So, they had me losing Florida by a lot and I ended up winning Florida by a lot. Other than that, they were very accurate.

They had him up four points in Ohio and they were off by 12.2 points. And I also won Ohio, great State of Ohio, very easily.

And the Washington Post had Biden up 17 points in Wisconsin, and it was basically even. They were off by about 17 points. And they knew that. They're not stupid people, they knew that. Suppression.

There are now only a few states yet to be decided in the presidential race. The voting apparatus of those states are run in all cases by Democrats. We were winning in all the key locations by a lot, actually, and then our numbers started miraculously getting whittled away in secret. And they wouldn't allow the legally permissible observers. We went to court in a couple of instances and we were able to get the observers put in. And when the observers got there, they wanted them 60, 70 feet away, 80 feet, 100 feet away or outside the building to observe people inside the building.

And we won a case, a big case, and we have others happening. A lot of, lots of litigation, even beyond our litigation; there's tremendous amount of litigation generally because of how unfair this process was. And I predicted that. I've been talking about mail-in voting for a long time. It's, it's really destroyed our system; it's a corrupt system. And it makes people corrupt even if they aren't by nature, but they become corrupt. It's too easy.

They want to find out how many votes they need and then they seem to be able to find them. They wait and wait and then they find them.

And you see that on election night we were ahead in vote in North Carolina by a lot, tremendous number of votes. And we're still ahead by a lot but not as many because they finding ballots all of a sudden. "Oh we have some mail in ballots."

It's amazing how those mail-in ballots are so one sided too. I know that it's supposed to be to the advantage of the Democrats, but in all cases there so one sided.

We were up by nearly 700,000 votes in Pennsylvania. I won Pennsylvania by a lot. And that gets whittled down to, I think they said now we're up by 90,000 votes, and they'll keep coming and coming and coming. They find them all over. And they don't want us to have any observers, although we won a court case. The judge said you have to have observers. Likewise in Georgia—and they're appealing. Actually they're appealing. We won a case that we want people to watch and we want observers, and they're actually appealing which is sort of interesting. I wonder why that appeal that all we want to do is have people watch as they do the vote tabulations.

Likewise in Georgia, I won by a lot, a lot, with a lead of over, getting close to 300,000 votes on election night in Georgia. And by the way, got whittled down, and now it's getting to be to a point where I'll go from winning by a lot to perhaps being even down a little bit. In Georgia a pipe burst in a faraway location totally unrelated to the location of what was happening and they stopped counting for four hours, and a lot of things happened. The election apparatus in Georgia is run by Democrats.

We've also had margins of 300,000 in Michigan. We were way up in Michigan, won the state, and in Wisconsin we did likewise fantastically well. And that got whittled down, in every case they got whittled down.

Today we're on track to win Arizona. We only need to carry I guess 55% of the remaining vote. 55% margins and that's a margin that we've significantly exceeded. so we'll see what happens with that but we're on track to do okay in Arizona.

Our goal is to defend the integrity of the election. We will not allow the corruption to steal such an election or any election for that matter. And we can't allow silence, anybody to silence our voters and manufacture results.

I've never had, I've been doing a lot of public things for a long time, I've never had anything that's been as inspirational by people calling, talking, sending things to us. I have never seen such, such love and such affection and such spirit as I've seen for this. People know what's happening and they see what's happening and it's before their eyes. And there are many instances which will be reported very shortly. There's tremendous litigation going on. And this is the case where they're trying to steal an election. They're trying to rig an election. And we can't let that happen. Detroit and Philadelphia, known as two of the most corrupt political places anywhere in our country, easily, cannot be responsible for engineering the outcome of a presidential race, a very important presidential race.

In Pennsylvania Democrats have gone to the state Supreme Court to try and ban our election observers, and very strongly. Now we won the case, but they're, they're going forward. They don't want anybody in there; they don't want anybody watching them as they count the ballots. And I can't imagine why; there's absolutely no legitimate reason why they would not want to have people watching this process because if it's straight, they would be, they should be proud of it.

Instead they're trying obviously to commit fraud. There's no question about that. In Philadelphia observers have been kept far away, very far away. So far that people are using binoculars to try and see. And there's been tremendous problems caused. They put paper on all of the windows so you can't see in and the people that are banned are very unhappy and become somewhat violent.

The 11th Circuit ruled that in Georgia the votes have been in by election day, that they should be in by election day. And they weren't. Votes are coming in after election day. And they had a ruling already that you have to have the votes in by election day. To the best of my knowledge votes should be in by election day. And they didn't do that.

Democrat officials never believed they could win this election honestly. I really believe that. That's why they did the mail in ballots where there's tremendous corruption and fraud going on. That's why they mailed out tens of millions of unsolicited ballots without any verification measures whatsoever.

And I've told everybody that these things would happen, because I've seen it happen. I watched a lot of different elections before they decided to go with as big massive election with tens of millions of ballots going out to everybody, in many cases totally unsolicited. This was unprecedented in American history. This was by design despite years of claiming to care about the election security, they refused to include any requirement to verify signatures, identities or even determine whether they're eligible or ineligible to vote.

People are walking in there. They have no idea. They just take in numbers; they're writing down things, the workers, and doing a lot of bad things. And we have a lot of information coming and litigation that you'll see that will shake even you people up. And you've seen it all.

The officials overseeing the counting in Pennsylvania and other key states are all part of a corrupt Democrat machine that you've written about, and for a long time you've been writing about the corrupt Democrat machine. I went to school there and I know a lot about. It hasn't changed, a long time ago. It hasn't changed. It's gotten worse. In Pennsylvania, partisan Democrats have allowed ballots in the state to be received three days after the election. And we think much more than that. And they're counting those without even postmarks or any identification whatsoever. So you don't have postmarks, you don't have identification.

There have been a number of disturbing irregularities across the nation. Our campaign has been denied access to observe any counting in Detroit. Detroit is another place. And I wouldn't say it has best reputation for election integrity. Poll workers in Michigan were duplicating ballots, but when our observers attempted to challenge the activity those pooll workers jumped in front of the volunteers to block their views so that they couldn't see what they were doing. And became a little bit dangerous. One major hub for counting ballots in Detroit covered up windows again with large pieces of cardboard. And so they wanted to protect and block the counting area; they didn't want anybody seeing the counting, even though these were observers who are legal observers that were supposed to be there.

In Detroit, there were hours of unexplained delay in delivering many of the votes for counting. The final batch did not arrive until four in the morning and even though the polls closed at eight o'clock. So they brought it in, and the batches came in and nobody knew where they came from.

We've also been denied access to observe in critical places in Georgia. In multiple swing states counting was halted for hours and hours on election night with results withheld from major Democrat run locations only to appear later. And they suddenly appeared and they all had the name Biden on them or just about all. I think almost all, they all had the name Biden on them, which is a little strange.

I challenge Joe and every Democrat to clarify that they only want legal votes. Because they talk about votes, and I think they should use the word legal, legal votes—we want every legal vote counted and I want every legal vote counted.

We want openness and transparency, no secret count rooms, no mystery ballots, no illegal votes being cast after election day. You have election day and the laws are very strong on that. You have an election day, and they don't want votes cast after election day and they want the process to be an honest one. It's so important. We want an honest election. We want an honest count. And we want honest people working back there, because it's a very important job.

So that's the way this country is going to win, That's the way the United States will win. And we think we will win the election very easily. We think there's going to be a lot of litigation, because we have so much evidence, so much proof. And it's going to end up, perhaps at the highest court in the land. We'll see. But we think there'll be a lot of litigation because we can't have an election stolen like this.

And I tell you I was, I have been talking about this for many months with all of you. And I've said very strongly that mail-in ballots are going to end up being a disaster. Small elections were disasters, small, very easy to handle elections were disastrous. This is a large scale version, and it's getting worse and worse every day. We're hearing stories that are horror stories, absolute horror stories. And we can't let that happen to the United States of America. It's not a question of who wins, Republican, Democrat, Joe, myself. We can't let that happen to our country. We can't be disgraced by having something like this happen.

So it will be hopefully cleared up maybe soon, I hope soon, but it'll probably go through a process, a legal process. And as you know I've claimed certain states and he's claiming states and we can both claim the states, but ultimately I have a feeling that judges are going to have to rule. But there's been a lot of shenanigans and we can't stand for that in our country. Thank you very much.

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Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.
November 5, 2020

Trump Campaign Announces Philadelphia Press Conference with Pam Bondi and Corey Lewandowski

Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. will host a press conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and campaign Senior Advisor Corey Lewandowski at 10:15 am EST.

WHEN: Thursday, November 5 at 10:15 am EST

WHERE: The corner of Arch Street and North 12th Street
Philadelphia, PA

Trump Campaign Announces Phoenix Press Conference with Representative Debbie Lesko, Jeff DeWit, Chairwoman Kelli Ward, and David Bossie

Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. will host a press conference in Phoenix, Arizona with Representative Debbie Lesko (AZ-08), former Arizona Treasurer Jeff DeWit, Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward, and President of Citizens United David Bossie at 2:00 pm MST.

WHEN: Thursday, November 5 at 2:00 pm MST

WHERE: Republican Party of Arizona
                 3501 North 24th Street
                 Phoenix, AZ 85016

UPDATE: Trump Campaign to Host Atlanta Press Conference at 7:30 PM EST

Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. will host a press conference in Atlanta, Georgia with Donald J. Trump Jr., Rep. Doug Collins (GA-09), Georgia State Rep. Vernon Jones, and Georgia Republican National Committeewoman Ginger Howard at 7:30 pm EST.

WHEN: Thursday, November 5 at 7:30 pm EST

WHERE: Georgia Republican Party Headquarters
470 East Paces Ferry Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30305

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Protect The Resullts
November 5, 2020

Protect The Results Coalition Remains Vigilant But Not Yet Launching National Mobilization As Millions Of Votes Are Counted

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, as millions of votes are counted and with Joe Biden’s lead in several key states growing, the Protect the Results coalition is announcing that it will not be activating the entire national mobilization network today, but remains ready to activate if necessary. While the coalition will not be activating its national network, some local organizers may still hold “Count Every Vote” events in their community.

Right now, election officials are continuing to count millions of votes across the country, Biden is ahead in the Electoral College and the popular vote, and the outcome of this election will be decided by the voters, not Donald Trump. Now, we must be patient and wait as election officials continue to count those ballots.

It’s clear from his false claims last night that Donald Trump is desperate and knows he’s losing. The American people will decide who our next President will be, not Donald Trump.

While the coalition will not activate nationwide events today, we know that Trump may say and do anything he can to cling to power—and that’s why the entire coalition will remain vigilant in the days and weeks ahead. We are ready to mobilize if needed to ensure every vote is counted and respected.

At each and every step in the process until then, the more than 165 progressive and conservative advocacy groups, labor unions, government watchdogs, and grassroots networks that are part of the Protect the Results coalition urge election officials and the media to not only keep the public informed as results are certified, but to also immediately combat any disinformation about the results.

If you would like to speak to a national spokesperson, please email press@protecttheresults.com.