In an extraordinary White House speech, US President Donald Trump blamed "a corrupt system", claiming the election is being stolen from him as his initial lead continues to dwindle in key states.
"If you count the legal votes, I easily win," he told reporters on Friday morning.
"If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us."
"We think there is going to be a lot of litigation as we have so much evidence, so much proof and it is going to end up perhaps at the highest court in the land.
"We will see. But we think there will be a lot of litigation because we cannot have an election stolen like this."
"We won by historic numbers and the pollsters got it knowingly wrong".
"We had polls that were so ridiculous. They thought there was going to be a big blue wave, that was done for suppression reasons.
Instead there was a big red wave and it has been properly acknowledged by the media. But that was after the fact, and that does not do us any good."
Donald Trump claimed without providing evidence that Democrat officials in closely fought states are manipulating the vote count.
"The voting apparatus are run in all cases by Democrats.
"We were winning in all the key locations by a lot, actually, and then our numbers that it miraculously getting riddled away, in secrecy, and if they would not allow legally permissible observers."
He also claimed Republican scrutineers were denied access to vote counting.
"We have also been denied access to critical places in Georgia, in multiple swing states," Trump says.
"Counting was halted for hours and hours on election night with results withheld from major Democrat run locations only to appear later and they suddenly appeared and they all had the name Biden (on them), almost all, they all had the name Biden on it. Which is a little strange."
"I have been talking about mail-in voting for a long time and it has destroyed our system".
"It is a corrupt system and it makes people corrupt even if they are not by nature but they become corrupt".
Donald Trump ended his White House appearance without taking questions. He spoke for over 15 minutes, mostly reading from a script, listing his grievances at Joe Biden's campaign, 'suppression polls' and 'fraud.'
