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By Justin Sink

November 6, 2020 at 12:07 AM UTC

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November 6, 2020 at 1:32 AM UTC

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President Donald Trump questioned the credibility of the U.S. election, complaining that public polls had overstated Joe Biden’s lead in many battleground states and that the ongoing count of mail-in votes was eroding his lead in Pennsylvania and Georgia.

“If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us,” Trump said Thursday in a statement to reporters at the White House.