Trump declares election victory; official results in several key states still pending
President Trump, in a 2:30 a.m. speech from the East Room of the White House, declared victory in the 2020 presidential election, despite several key states being too close to call.
Trump claimed that "a very sad group of people" was trying to steal the election and "disenfranchise" Americans who voted in record numbers, threatening to take the matter to the Supreme Court:
