US braces for long wait for election results as Trump falsely declares victory

Donald Trump falsely claimed victory in the race for the presidency in the early hours of Wednesday morning, even as the election remained too close to call with millions of votes yet to be counted. America woke up to a tense political landscape where each candidate still has a path to electoral victory but with Joe Biden narrowly ahead and key states in the midwest down to the wire as postal votes were still being counted. Trump, addressing a…