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2 Incumbent US President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday declared a false victory of the 2020 US presidential elections.
Prominent Republicans have come out condemning Trump's false claims, while Human Rights Watch criticised his "premature" claim and pleaded with leaders to wait for all votes to be counted, including all the mail-in ballots.
Trump also said that he would take his case, for vote counting to be stopped, to the US Supreme Court, alleging that it was "a major fraud on our nation".
Joe Biden's campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon released a statement calling Trump's claim "outrageous" and vowed that "the counting will not stop", reported News24.
"It was outrageous because it is a naked effort to take away the democratic rights of American citizens," she said.
- Compiled by Amy Gibbings
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