Supporters of President Donald Trump chanted "stop the count" and "count those votes" in separate protests outside ballot-counting stations in Detroit and Phoenix.
Videos showed a crowd outside Detroit's TCF Center on Wednesday chanting "stop the count" and "stop the vote."
His fans outside the Maricopa County Election Center in Arizona, however, where Trump is trailing Joe Biden, were filmed chanting "count those votes."
The Trump campaign is also filing lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Michigan to stop the battleground states from counting remaining votes.
Trump falsely claimed victory Wednesday and made claims of "major fraud" without providing any evidence.
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Supporters of President Donald Trump chanted both "count those votes" and "stop the count" outside ballot-counting sites in two different states.
As of Thursday morning, ballots were still being counted in key states. Trump baselessly claimed victory in the presidential election early Wednesday morning, claiming there was "major fraud on our nation," without providing evidence.
His campaign is filing lawsuits to stop remaining votes from being counted in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Michigan. At the same time, the president and his GOP allies are insisting that the vote counts continue in Arizona and Nevada, states where Trump has been trailing the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden.
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Biden won Michigan on Wednesday afternoon, according to Decision Desk HQ.
Videos published online Wednesday showed crowds pushing to get inside the TCF Center in Detroit where votes were being counted earlier that day.
One, posted to Twitter by the Washington Post photojournalist Salwan Georges, showed Trump supporters inside the center chanting "stop the count" and "stop the vote."
A second video, posted to Twitter by the Detroit-based reporter Annalise Frank, showed Trump supporters outside the center, also chanting "stop the vote." They were denied entry by police officers and security, Frank said.
A third video, posted by the NBC News correspondent Steve Patterson, showed protesters inside the center surrounding the doors to the vote counting hall. "Pizza boxes are pushed against the window to obstruct view. It's tense," he wrote.
The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit in the Michigan Court of Claims on Tuesday in an attempt to stop ballot counting.
"President Trump's campaign has not been provided with meaningful access to numerous counting locations to observe the opening of ballots and the counting process, as guaranteed by Michigan law," the campaign said in a statement.
Across the country, about 200 Trump fans amassed outside the Maricopa County Election Center in Phoenix late Wednesday night, chanting "count those votes" — the opposite of the chants made in Detroit the same day.
Trump supporters gathered to protest the election results at the Maricopa County Elections Department office in Phoenix on Wednesday. Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images
Chants of "Fox News sucks" also rang out from the crowd, showing anger toward the network's decision to call Arizona for Biden on Tuesday night.
Some of those assembled outside the Maricopa County Election Center demanded entry to the facility, the MSNBC reporter Gadi Schwartz said.
On Wednesday, a large group of protesters who did not appear to be linked to Trump's campaign also protested in Seattle and Portland, Oregon, calling for every vote to be counted across the US.
Protesters held signs reading "count every vote," and "keeping hope alive," Bloomberg reported. Decision Desk HQ and other outlets called Oregon for Biden on Wednesday.
As Business Insider's Jake Lahut and Grace Panetta previously reported, Trump has frequently spread misinformation claiming there is widespread fraud and election malfeasance in Pennsylvania and that "bad things happen in Philadelphia."
BunnehCakez on November 5th, 2020 at 11:54 UTC »
“Count the votes, but only where we’re losing, otherwise stop!”
And they’re accusing Dems of trying to steal an election? 🙄
BloodyMess on November 5th, 2020 at 11:47 UTC »
It'd be nice to set up a live projector streaming each site to the other, so they can save us the trouble of counter-protesting.
profheg_II on November 5th, 2020 at 11:32 UTC »
The intent of this is so blatant. I don't know how any thinking person can look at the full scope of what Trump is accusing and go "Yeah that's coherent. It's obviously not him just smearing whatever, in whichever direction he needs to, to win him the election."