Democratic nominee Joe Biden closed in on the presidency Wednesday, with projected victories in the critical states of Michigan and Wisconsin. With only Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania yet to be called among the swing states, Biden is in striking distance of the 270 electoral votes he needs to win the election.

President Donald Trump has a considerably narrower path to remain in the White House. He lags behind Biden in projected Electoral College votes, and would have to fare better in final counts than he is currently to make up the gap.

And although the Electoral College decides the presidency , the popular vote is tilted heavily toward Biden, who broke the record for support in a U.S. presidential election with 70 million votes.

With a loss increasingly likely, Trump and his allies are doing what they have hinted at for months: claiming victory prematurely, insisting mail-in ballots for Democrats are invalid, baselessly saying votes were cast after polls were closed and filing lawsuits meant to stop counting votes .

On Wednesday afternoon, Trump proclaimed falsely that he had won in Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina.

We have claimed, for Electoral Vote purposes, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (which wont allow legal observers) the State of Georgia, and the State of North Carolina, each one of which has a BIG Trump lead, the president wrote on Twitter.

Additionally, we hereby claim the State of Michigan if, in fact ... there was a large number of secretly dumped ballots as has been widely reported! Trump continued.

Twitter included a note on both of Trumps tweets, noting: Some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process.

The president is lying. There are no credible reports that a large number of ballots were secretly dumped in Michigan, a state that multiple news networks called for Biden on Wednesday afternoon. Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia are still too close to call. Nevadas results are also pending.