At 2:20 AM, Donald Trump is speaking from the East Room trying to claim that the election is being stolen from him. At this time on election night in 2016, the results weren’t clear yet either.
Donald Trump claims he’s winning Georgia, but Georgia hasn’t been called yet.
TRUMP: “Frankly, we did win this election.” (He did not. The votes have not been counted.)
TRUMP says they will take this to the Supreme Court. He repeats that he believes he’s already won the election, which has not happened.
DONALD TRUMP brings MIKE PENCE up to the stage. Pence says they are “on the road to victory” — a very different claim than Trump made. But it doesn’t matter — Pence is standing by Trump’s side as he lies about the results of the election. He has endorsed this anti-democratic lie.
Donald Trump called it a “fraud” to continue to count votes. This does not sound like a democracy.
Vice President Mike Pence spoke as if President Trump had not just undermined our democratic process by claiming the election had already been won. He believes he can carry out his role as VP as if the president doesn’t exist. But that’s not how it works to be someone’s deputy.
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