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US President-elect Joe Biden said on Tuesday that nothing would stop the transfer of power in the government, while President Donald Trump pursued lawsuits in several states in a long-shot bid to hold on to power.
Senior US federal and state election officials said Thursday that there was “no evidence” that votes were lost or changed, or voting systems corrupted, in the presidential election.
Twitter labeled 300,000 tweets related to the US presidential election as “potentially misleading” in the two weeks surrounding the vote, making up 0.2 percent of election-related posts, the company said Thursday.
President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden fought Monday through the eve of an election threatened by legal chaos and fears of violence after Trump, down in the polls and with only hours to go, pushed hard to discredit the US voting process.
Reserve troops of the US National Guard will be available for deployment in the US capital in case of trouble following the November 3 elections, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said Tuesday.
A US presidential nominee has never died or had to withdraw from a White House race this close to an election.
US President Donald Trump has defended supporters of his for their alleged roles in recent deadly street clashes.
Hillary Clinton, who lost to Donald Trump in 2016, said Tuesday that this year’s Democratic challenger Joe Biden should refuse to concede until all votes are counted in a tight and possibly drawn-out contest.
The US states of New York, New Jersey and Hawaii on Tuesday sued the Donald Trump administration over alleged steps to “undermine the November presidential election” by disrupting postal service.
Joe Biden on Thursday accepted the Democratic nomination to be the party’s presidential candidate, the culmination of a convention held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic.