US election results - live updates: Trump heads out to play golf as Biden poised to seize presidency
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Donald Trump has emerged from the White House for the first time since Election Day, dressed for a round of golf.
The outing by the current president comes moments after he launched a fresh attack on “illegal votes” as Joe Biden’s lead in Georgia and Pennsylvania continues to widen in the US election.
Taking to Twitter, the current president said “tens of thousands of votes were illegally received after 8pm on Tuesday, Election Day” which, he says, makes their eligibility invalid.
He went on to say vote-counting had been hidden by tractors in Pennsylvania who, according to the president, “blocked doors & windows [which] were covered with thick cardboard so that observers could not see into the count rooms”. Mr Trump added: “BAD THINGS HAPPENED INSIDE. CHANGES TOOK PLACE!”
There remains no evidence to substantiate the claims of voter fraud being made by Mr Trump, which he began circulating on Wednesday morning when his lead in key states against the Democrats started to narrow.
Critics immediately suggested any accusation of fraud should be investigated, but that Mr Trump’s claims of votes being changed at such a widespread scale were unlikely to hold up.
Representatives of both Mr Trump and Mr Biden’s camps are said to have been present in vote-counting rooms at all times in states such as Pennsylvania, where the president is claiming ballots were altered.
As it stands, Mr Biden leads Mr Trump in Pennsylvania by more than 28,800. The state has now counted roughly 99 per cent of its votes - a win here by Mr Biden would take him over the required 270 electoral votes and see him named the next president. The Democrat is also winning in Georgia and Nevada.
