President Trump’s team has a message for Joe Biden: Not so fast.
With Biden poised to suggest he won the election despite millions of votes set to be counted, the Trump campaign Wednesday afternoon said that its data shows that it will cross the needed 270 electoral votes by Friday, securing a second term and robbing the Democrat of a victory virtually every media pollster gave to Biden.
“By the end of this week, it will be clear to the entire nation that President Trump and Vice President Pence will be elected for another four years,” said campaign adviser Jason Miller.
In a call to talk numbers, the campaign said that its data operation believes it will get the votes needed to win in Pennsylvania and Arizona, and, when added to the expected Georgia and North Carolina wins, a second term will be assured.
Arizona and Pennsylvania are the key issues.
In Arizona, Miller explained that there were enough votes to push the state into Trump’s column, and he called on Fox News and others to withdraw their claim that Biden won it.
He explained that while Biden leads Trump by over 93,000 votes, there are still 605,000 outstanding ballots. For Trump to win, he’d need 57.7%.
Miller said many of those outstanding ballots are Election Day votes, which Trump had been winning up to 70% of.
“Over these next couple of days, as these ballots come in and are counted in the state of Arizona, that we could be looking at, potentially as soon as Friday, President Trump being declared the winner or it being clear that he has enough votes to formally say he will win the state of Arizona,” said Miller.
In Pennsylvania, campaign manager Bill Stepien said his data shows a margin for Trump over Biden of 454,000 with 1.2 million votes still to be counted.
Conceding that many are in pro-Biden areas, he still said that for the Democrat to win, he’d need to capture “78% of those remaining votes.”
And, he added, many of those votes are also in Trump counties.
As a result, he said, “We have a high degree of confidence in maintaining our margin of victory. In fact, we are declaring a victory in Pennsylvania.”
