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Donald Trumped: Newspapers react to knife-edge battle for the White House

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    The Financial Times highlights how the US election is now in the 'final straight', with Joe Biden looking happy with the expected result.

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    Draped by American flags, The i shows Joe Biden addressing the nation as he 'edges closer to the White House'.

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    With a war of words and a legal battle ahead, The New European shows the Statue of Liberty barely able to look as she asks: 'Is it over yet?'

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    The Times says America is holding its breath for the final result, which may still be some time away.

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    Contrasting faces for Biden and Trump features on The Daily Express, which leads on the upcoming legal chaos.

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    The possible next US president features alongside his defiant message of 'We will win' on the front page of The Daily Telegraph.

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    The Independent shows Donald Trump draped in silhouette, illustrating how America is 'kept in the dark' over the results.

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    The Guardian headlines on Biden's refusal to have US democracy taken away by any legal challenge to the vote.

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    The Daily Mirror doesn't mince its words and describes Trump as a 'liar and a cheat until the bitter end'.

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    Punning on Trump's famous rally cry, Metro highlights how Americans have to wait to find out who their next president will be.

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    Across the pond, The New York Times describes the results so far as 'An American cliffhanger', despite Biden in a commanding position.

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    The Scottish Daily Mail says it's a case of 'Donald Trumped' by Biden in the results.

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Andy Wells
·Freelance Writer
Updated

With Joe Biden just one battleground state away from securing enough electoral college votes to become the US president, the battle for the White House is on a knife edge.

After securing victories in Wisconsin and Michigan, Biden had 264 electoral college votes and needed to secure one of Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina or his home state Pennsylvania to reach the necessary 270 to claim the country’s top position.

However, Trump must win all four states, and has begun legal action in three of them to either stop the counting of votes or insist his team be provided greater access to scrutinise the process.

Reacting to the upcoming legal wrangling, the UK’s newspapers have highlighted Trump describing the vote count as a “fraud”.

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The “legal chaos” features on most of the front pages on Thursday morning, reporting on Trump’s threat to go to the US Supreme Court and what the president said was a “fraud on the American nation”, despite not backing up his claims.

Biden’s campaign said the president’s comments, made in the White House against a backdrop of US flags, were a “naked attempt to take away the democratic rights of American citizens”.