Trump tweets his outrage as Biden inches closer to victory

Agency: US President Donald Trump spent a second day in the White House on Thursday stewing over election results that suggested a path to victory was slipping from his grasp, AP reported.

According to Reuters, Trump lambasted election workers offering no evidences and alleged fraud in the states where results from a dwindling set of uncounted votes are pushing Democrat Joe Biden nearer to victory.

Biden, the former vice president, was chipping away at the incumbent president’s leads in Pennsylvania and Georgia even as he maintained narrow advantages in Nevada and Arizona. Biden is moving closer to securing the 270 votes in the state-by-state Electoral College that determines the winner, Reuters further reported.

Most major television networks gave Biden a 253 to 214 lead in Electoral College votes, after he captured the crucial battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday.

Biden would become the next president by winning Pennsylvania, or by winning two out of the trio of Georgia, Nevada and Arizona. Trump’s likeliest path appeared narrower – he needed to hang onto Pennsylvania and Georgia while overtaking Biden in either Nevada or Arizona.

Meanwhile, AP reported that Trump had not been seen in public since his premature declaration of victory in the wee hours of Wednesday morning until appearing in the White House briefing room on Thursday evening to deliver prepared remarks.

He renewed his unfounded claims that Democrats are trying to “steal” the election from him.

 “STOP THE COUNT!” he proclaimed. But the president has no authority over election counting and halting the count at that moment would have resulted in a swift victory for his Democratic rival, Joe Biden.