Australia’s prime minister Scott Morrison says he has great confidence in American institutions to deal with the challenges posed by Donald Trump calling for the vote count to be stopped.

Asked on Thursday whether he believed Trump was trying to undermine democracy with his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud and the attempts to stop the vote count, Morrison pointed to his cordial relationship with the Republican incumbent, and said Australia was not a participant in the presidential election, it was “a partner with the United States”.

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