Will Donald Trump barricade himself in Oval office and refuse to come out? Joe Biden isn't too concerned about it
While the US Presidential race continues to tighter, Donald Trump is getting all geared up to do whatever it takes to remain the President of the United States.
According to media reports, Donald Trump is even ready to barricade himself in the Oval Office, and refuse to come out if Joe Biden wins the election. Trump's chances of winning the elections is increasingly slimming down after the mail-in ballots have begun coming in. But instead of conceding, the President has taken to attempting to disenfranchise voters and declaring that he has been "cheated" by voter fraud, despite no concrete evidence available to support his claims.
According to CNN Trump is "in conversations with allies in recent days has said he has no intention of conceding the election." In an interview on election day, Trump had revealed that he hadn't prepared his concession speech. Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows is reportedly yet to attempt 'to come to terms with the president about the reality of what is happening'. Trump has hinted at taking the matters to court if he lost the elections, so the Trump campaign is reportedly busy trying to raise $60mn to fight the election in the court.
Some of Trump's aides are reportedly trying to get the president to quietly bow out of the elections instead of dragging the matter and tarnishing his brand.
However, Biden and his campaign team don't seem to be too worried about Trump's plans. As Biden campaign's spokesman Andrew Bates declared that the White House security will simply escort Trump off the premises if he decides to barricade himself in the executive mansion. He said, "The US government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the White House."
Even before all the ballots were counted, Trump declared himself as the winner, and announced that he would move the US Supreme Court to stop "all voting." He said: "We'll be going to the US Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop. We don't want them to find any ballots at 4 in the morning and add them to the list... as far as I'm concerned, we've already won." He declared the votes being counted after the election day as illegal, even though they aren't. Biden currently has 264 Electoral College votes, and needs 270 to win the race to White House.