Mainstream media calls presidential race for Biden, Trump remains defiant

The Associated Press, CNN, NBC, and Fox News made projections Saturday morning that Biden would take the presidency with 273 electoral votes.

The Trump campaign has promised to challenge election results with a recount in Wisconsin as well as legal action in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia due to allegations of widespread election tampering.

Georgia has already announced on Friday that it will hold a recount after the states' vote counts were simply too close to call.

"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," Trump said in a Saturday statement.

"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," Trump added. "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."

Trump promised that his team will take legal action "beginning Monday" 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," Trump continued. "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 count room- 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," he concluded.

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