Trump lies about election results at rally challenging Biden win: ‘We will never concede’
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks throughout a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021.
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President Donald Trump lied about the results of the presidential election and bragged about the scale of a crowd at a rally the place he refused to confess defeat to President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday.
“We will never give up, we will never concede,” Trump instructed the attendees outdoors the White House, who cheered him on one hour earlier than Congress was set to start the method of confirming Biden’s victory within the Electoral College.
“We will stop the steal!” Trump mentioned when taking the stage, after the group waited for his look whereas listening to pop songs like “Macho Man,” “Don’t Stop Believing,” and “Tiny Dancer.”
The lame duck Republican additionally reiterated a name on his personal vp, Mike Pence, to refuse to just accept the validity of Electoral College ballots for Biden from a number of battleground states.
Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump collect in Presidents Park on the Ellipse by the White House for his rally and speech to contest the certification by the U.S. Congress of the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021.
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Experts say Pence has no such energy when he presides over the joint session of Congress because it confirms state election results certifications on Wednesday afternoon.
“I hope Mike is gonna do the right thing,” Trump mentioned. “If Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election.”
“He has the absolute right to do it.”
More than a dozen Republican senators and as much as 100 or extra House members are anticipated to problem the results from some states, however that effort just isn’t anticipated to thwart Biden’s victory, as a result of each the Senate and House are on observe to substantiate his wins in these states.
Trump, as he has for 2 months, claimed that he received the favored vote outright, when he truly misplaced by greater than 7 million well-liked votes to the previous Democratic vp.
“We won it by a landslide,” he claimed. “This was no close election.”
Trump additionally claimed that “they cheated like hell” in Georgia’s two particular elections for the Senate on Tuesday, the place Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock has been projected the winner over Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, and the place one other Democrat, Jon Ossoff, was main the Republican David Perdue in poll tallies.
Trump and his allies declare, with none proof, that there was widespread poll fraud in a number of states, which in flip led to these states permitting their Electoral College votes to be awarded to Biden. The Democrat received 306 electoral votes, 36 greater than he must win the White House.
Trump had received by the very same margin in 2016 over Hillary Clinton.
“They rigged an election. They rigged it like never before,” Trump mentioned Wednesday.
However, no court docket has invalidated any poll for Biden on a declare by the Trump marketing campaign or its supporters that fraud was dedicated.
Trump-related authorized efforts challenging Biden’s victory, which has included a request that the U.S. Supreme Court step into the difficulty, have been defeated or withdrawn throughout the board.
The president bemoaned the Supreme Court, which has three Trump-appointed justices, saying the excessive court docket “loves to rule against me.”
Trump’s rambling remarks Wednesday quickly devolved into him asking “Where’s Hunter?”
He had hoped claims he raised about Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, through the election would assist win him win a second time period.
