Washington: With his Democratic opponent Joe Biden on the cusp of securing the presidency and poised to address the nation Friday night, President Donald Trump complained again that his early lead on Election Night had “miraculously disappeared,” and he expressed hope that a slew of lawsuits his campaign has filed over election proceedings might cause his leads to “return.”
“I had such a big lead in all of these states late into election night, only to see the leads miraculously disappear as the days went by,” Trump tweeted. “Perhaps these leads will return as our legal proceedings move forward!”
Shortly before this tweet, Trump wrote that Biden “should not wrongfully claim the office of the President.”
“I could make that claim also,” Trump wrote. “Legal proceedings are just now beginning!”
Trump has, in fact, made that claim repeatedly over the past three days, starting on Election Night, when he told supporters at the White House, “Frankly, we did win this election. We did win this election.”
Yet Trump’s leads did not disappear by virtue of a miracle, rather, they never existed to begin with. As more and more ballots were counted this week, it became clear that Biden had received more votes than Trump in key states, including Michigan and Wisconsin.
