‘TOTAL WAR’
Election 2020: Trump Jr says his dad should ‘fight to the DEATH’ after president’s baseless ‘cheating and fraud’ claims
DONALD Trump Jr said his dad should "fight to the death" after the president’s baseless "cheating and fraud" claims.
As Joe Biden neared a win on Thursday evening, Don Jr slammed the election voting process at an event in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Don Jr told the crowd: “I cannot think of a possible reason other than they plan on cheating.
“I think the number one thing that Donald Trump can do in this election is fight each and every one of these battles to the death.
"So that we get full transparency in the process. And every one of the Democrats should welcome this, unless they are actually cheating.”
The president's son claimed that the more than 75,000 mail in ballots were a "statistical impossibility" because none of the votes were for Trump.
He added: "This is the kind of nonsense that has to stop."
His comments came after he took to social media to insist that the United States "should go to total war" and "expose the fraud and cheating."
Taking to to air his grievances over the count, raged: "The best thing for America’s future is for [] to go to total war over this ."
He claimed that the purpose of this civil war would be "to expose all of the fraud, cheating, dead/no longer in state voters, that has been going on for far too long."
"It’s time to clean up this mess & stop looking like a banana republic!" Don Jr concluded his inflammatory rant this evening.
His incendiary statement was rapidly flagged by .
The social media giant warned that "some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process" and linked to their Civic Integrity Policy.
This states that users "may not use Twitter’s services for the purpose of manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes."
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"This includes posting or sharing content that may suppress participation or mislead people about when, where, or how to participate in a civic process," Twitter's statement continued.
"In addition, we may label and reduce the visibility of Tweets containing false or misleading information about civic processes in order to provide additional context."
Don Jr also appeared to issue a thinly-veiled dig at the recently re-elected Senator Lindsey Graham, after a Trump fan said he had not tweeted in 24 hours.
"No one is surprised," Trump's eldest son said of Graham, a Republican and the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, who's been a staunch defender of the president.
His comments come after tensions reached , where Trump supporters protested outside polling stations in key counties.
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Trump has filed lawsuits in , and to demand better access for Republican observers to locations where ballots are being counted. He also demanded a recount in this week.
Trump tweeted "stop the count" and "stop the fraud" – which was flagged by Twitter – as Biden led by s by Thursday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Biden said this afternoon he and running mate have "no doubt" they have beaten Trump and Vice President .
"We continue to feel, the senator and I, we continue to feel very good about where things stand," Biden said. "We have no doubt that when the count is finished Sen. Harris and I will be declared the winners."
He also blasted his GOP rival's attempts at "declaring victory" early after Trump said he had won again shortly after 2am ET on Wednesday.
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The Democrat's comments came just hours after he took the lead in Nevada and narrowed the Republican's lead in Pennsylvania and Georgia.
On Thursday evening, was anxiously waiting for the results of the nail-biting race in the key states, which hopes will give him the keys to .
According to CNN, Trump's Georgia lead shrunk to just 14,000 votes on Thursday morning. His Pennsylvania lead has also shrunk by 14,000 votes.
The reported that Trump is leading in GA by 9,426 votes, where 98 percent of the votes have been reported as the race tightened shortly after 6 pm EST.
Biden's lead in Nevada has soared to 12,000, almost double what it was this morning, according to the outlet.
However, the president also made gains in Arizona as two more sets of new votes were published in Maricopa – the state's biggest county.
Right now, the former vice president is 17 votes short of an Oval Office victory.
HOLDING A RECOUNT
Joe Biden has a slender lead over Donald Trump in the race to 270 electoral votes.
The Democrat has so far flipped three states that Trump won in 2016 – Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona.
But the President wants a recount of votes in Wisconsin and has filed lawsuits to stop vote counting in both Michigan and Pennsylvania.
The recount of votes can be complicated because the guidelines are set at state and sometimes local levels.
THE RULES
Wisconsin – a recount cannot be requested until election results are verified on December 1. State rules also dictate that a recount can only be requested by a candidate if the race is separated by a margin of one per cent or less.
Michigan – the state conducts an automatic recount if candidates are separated by a margin of 2,000 total votes or less. To get a recount by request, a campaign must submit a petition over alleged fraud or counting errors within 48 hours.
Pennsylvania – the state only provides an automatic recount if the race is separated by a margin of 0.5% or less, or if election officials find irregularities in the results
Races in Arizona, with 11, are still too close to call as Biden came within one point of Trump in the traditionally red Peach State on Wednesday night.
But if those states' results are finalized on Thursday, Biden could claim victory and the race could be over.
On Friday morning, after storming into the lead in Pennsylvania to seal Trump's fate.
This election has come down to the wire after Trump defied the pollsters who predicted a Biden landslide.
The Associated Press called the race in Arizona to Biden on Wednesday - despite mail-in ballots still being counted.
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They called the race when 80 percent of the vote was counted but concluded that after analyzing the ballots that there were not enough for Trump to catch up.
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CNN also called the race for Biden on Wednesday, but after the latest round of counts came in showing the margin getting smaller in Trump's favor - the news network moved Arizona from Blue to White.
The race to is dramatically coming down to several key counties within battleground states that are still counting their mail-in ballots.
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