Beaten Like a Drum: Trump Files Lawsuit Challenging Election in 2 States, Demands Recount in One

Ololade Adeyanju/

With just six electoral college votes to meet the required 270 to win the American presidential election after his victory in Wisconsin and Michigan, Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, is as good as done.

But President Donald Trump will not go down without a fight.

Trump has reportedly filed lawsuit in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and he is demanding a recount of ballots in Wisconsin.

Biden had on Wednesday expressed confidence in his path to the presidency as votes trickled in from several uncalled states. 

Latest reports say Biden is just six electoral votes away from the presidency. 

Biden Wednesday afternoon said that “it’s clear that we’re winning enough states to reach the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency” even as millions of votes are still being counted and the 2020 presidential election between him and President Trump hinges on a handful of battleground states. 

Unlike Trump, Biden did not claim victory in the presidential race, but expressed strong confidence in his electoral vote path.   “I’m not here to declare that we won. But I’m here to report when the count is finished we believe we will be the winners,” Biden said.

Biden’s vote count is currently 50.4 percent of the vote, with more than 72 million ballots cast on the Democratic candidate so far.

He has so far received Electoral College votes from 21 states, securing 254 votes of the 270 needed so far.

They incumbent President has received 48 percent of the total vote count in the US.

That gives him 214 votes from the Electoral College.

Biden had announced at the start of the race that he would beat Trump like a drum.

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