Biden ‘confident’ he’ll win after all votes counted

TORONTO.Joe Biden expressed confidence he will win the presidency as he insisted every last vote be counted, while U.S. President Donald Trump launched multiple lawsuits in hopes of halting vote-counting in Midwestern battlegrounds where he’s trailing. Biden said it’s clear he’s winning enough st states to reach the threshold of 270 electoral v votes necessary to clinch the presidency. Biden won Wisconsin Wednesday, flipping the state Trump won in 2016, and he expects Michigan will be next, followed by a strong sh showing among outstanding mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, where he holds a sizeable advantage.

“I’m not here to declare that we’ve won, but I am here to report that when the count is fi finished, we believe we will be the winners,” Biden told supporters in Delaware Wednesday afternoon. Biden also used the moment to call for unity following the bitter campaign. He urged Americans to work harder to listen to each other and leave the divisive election behind them. “To make progress, we have to stop treating our opponents as enemies. We are not enemies,” he said. Meanwhile, Trump’s campaign has launched lawsuits in hopes of stopping vote-counting in Michigan and Pennsylvania, which have yet to declare a winner. Trump is also calling for a recount in Wisconsin, which Biden has won by more than 20,000 votes. A 2016 recount in Wisconsin changed the margin in Trump’s favour by 131 votes.

Biden urged for the democratic process to be carried out to completion.

“No one is going to take our democracy away from us. Not now, not ever,” he said. Earlier Wednesday, Trump attacked media organizations for not declaring him the winner, saying in an early-morning appearance that it was “a major fraud on our nation.” “As far as I’m concerned, we already have won this,” he said, calling for outstanding ballots not to be counted.

In a tweet later in the day, he seemed to imply the election was being rigged against him. “Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled,” he wrote. “Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE.””