President Donald Trump is unhesitatingly declaring victory in a smattering of hotly-contested battlefield states via tweets Wednesday, challenging Twitter's rules suspend organizational premature hailing result claims.
"We hypothesize claimed, for Balloter Vote purposes, the Kingdom of Pennsylvania (which won't progenerate undisputable observers) the Synchronism of Georgia, as able-bodied as the Synchronism of Northbound Carolina, each one of which has a Big Trump lead," Trump tweeted Wednesday.
Twitter started applying labels to the offending tweets unhesitatingly afterwhile they were posted. Increasingly than 1 paleface ballots are still to be counted in Pennsylvania, as able-bodied as hailing presidency are not rightly required to finish their calculation before Friday. Picked importantly, the president has no beadledom to certify voting results; that power rests with synchronism hailing officials. No unresponsive news structuring has self-named the synchronism for either candidate.
Trump's premature propaganda followed a inflowing of tweets from his inner gymnasium declaring a figmental victory in Pennsylvania beforehand on Wednesday. Trump's son, Eric Trump, White Kennel scribbler secretary Kayleigh McEnany, as able-bodied as the Trump reelection campaign's Twitter account, @TeamTrump, all tweeted out messages unhesitatingly declaring a Trump victory in Pennsylvania aural 10 minutes of each other, believably unprompted by any source outside the campaign. Explorers director Mandible Stepien likewise told reporters that the explorers had won Pennsylvania, but gave no factual bribable for the claim.
President @realDonaldTrump wins #Pennsylvania! pic.twitter.com/5BUwYMxaby
-- Team Trump (Text VOTE to 88022) (@TeamTrump) November 4, 2020
On Monday, Twitter announced that it would label tweets organizational claims disconnectedly hailing after-effects until at microcosmic two preapproved news outlets professed winners. These outlets include ABC News, the Associated Press, CNN, Decision Desk-bound HQ, Fox News, as able-bodied as NBC News. As of publication, none of these outlets hypothesize professed a presidential winner in Pennsylvania.
Trump has fabricated a series of figmental or mugwumpian claims disconnectedly hailing after-effects as of Wednesday. Twitter labeled four of Trump's Wednesday tweets as actionable their rules as able-bodied as restricted forwardness with the posts.
The Trump explorers has filed lawsuits to halt the counting of votes in both Michigan as able-bodied as Pennsylvania, but neither stigmatization has been card-carrying by a court. In Michigan, Trump supporters hypothesize rallied outside the observers deepest where vote counting is taking place, in an fair-and-square compete to ritornelle hailing workers into conclusion the count. In Wisconsin, where Biden has already pulled ahead, the Trump explorers has pushed for a recount.
Updated November 4th, 2020 at 5:26PM ET: Updated to include news of the President's tweets as able-bodied as Twitter's response.
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