IT’S RIGGED, I’M NOT LEAVING

TRUMP DOUBLES DOWN

JOE Biden last night continued his extraordinary momentum in election vote counting, mowing down Donald Trump’s lead in Georgia and Pennsylvania, and increasing his own lead in Nevada.

With counting continuing and the Trump team mounting multiple legal challenges, America is no closer to knowing who will be president during the next four years, but Mr Biden remains just six electoral college votes shy of claiming the 270 needed to win the presidency.

Earlier it looked as if Nevada might be the state that ultimately delivered the presidency to Mr Biden but with a majority of postal votes going to the Democrats, it is entirely possible the former Vice President will also pick up Georgia and Pennsylvania.

Voting also continues in North Carolina, but with a lead last night of 77,000 votes it was widely anticipated that Mr Trump would hold the state.

But Mr Biden’s momentum in the other states has been little short of astounding.

In 24 hours, he pegged back Mr Trump’s lead in Pennsylvania from 164,000 votes to 24,000.

And in the same time frame he clawed back Mr Trump’s lead in Georgia from more than 22,000 votes to fewer than 2000.

While counting in Nevada continues to be slow – 16 per cent of ballots are still yet to be counted – Mr Biden also extended his lead there from 8000 votes to more than 11,000.

Mr Trump has also refused to concede Arizona, but with Mr Biden ahead in the counting by more than 46,000 votes, it is widely regarded as a gain for the Democrats.

Professor Simon Jackman, from the US Studies Centre, predicted that Joe Biden would have a “very narrow win”.

Although there had been calls for recounts in some states, Professor Jackman said in the age of machine counting, they tended to have very little impact on election results.

He was also sceptical about some of the legal challenges launched or threatened by the Trump team about the late counting of absentee ballots.

“This is absolutely bog standard absentee vote counting,” he said.

Pennsylvania “had already been extensively litigated on this question”, and the Supreme Court had refused to overturn a judgment by the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court on the matter, Professor Jackman said.