The morning after he declared from the White House East Room that "all voting must stop," President Donald Trump's strategy of undermining the Democratic process was coming into sharper focus, even as it failed to gain widespread traction among Republicans or even his own campaign.

With millions of ballots still being counted, Trump awoke in an agitated state, tweeting or retweeting messages that sought to undermine confidence in the vote counting process. At least three were labeled by Twitter as "disputed" or "misleading."

Several top Republicans, including those close to Senate Republican leaders, were privately dismissive of Trump's suggestion that ballots shouldn't be counted after Election Day.

And even his own campaign said in a call with reporters that Trump's remaining path to victory will rely on those still-uncounted ballots in places where the process of tabulating results has taken longer.

What emerged was a picture of a President intent on using all the tools at his disposal to force a victory, including wielding misinformation about the integrity of the vote and an onslaught of legal maneuvers, even as the results were still coming in and his advisers insisted the math would turn in his favor.

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Trump's advisers believe he does still have a path to victory that includes wins in Pennsylvania and Arizona, though acknowledge privately it will be an uphill battle.

"If we count all legal ballots, the President wins," campaign manager Bill Stepien told reporters on a quickly-arranged mid-morning conference call.

Trump, however, has projected less optimism in those routes and has instead sought to question the large batches of outstanding votes that have tipped some states toward Biden.

"They are finding Biden votes all over the place -- in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. So bad for our Country!" he wrote on Twitter.

Trump's grip-like command of the Republican Party remains firmly in place, and does not appear poised to loosen after Tuesday night's results. Few Republican elected officials spoke out against Trump's attempts to delegitimize the vote counting process. Instead, most were silent as the situation plays out.

Privately, however, those within Trump's party were beginning to undercut his claims that fraudulent voting was leading to late Democratic surges in critical battlegrounds.

"No, we don't agree with what's coming out of the White House," a senior GOP official said. "We see no credible reports of fraud or anything improper."