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19 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Biden, at the Lincoln Memorial, says we have to remember the 400K dead from Covid to heal: "It's important to do that as a nation."
This marks the first truly public memorial to these deaths by a national figure to date in a pandemic, as we noted in May, in which the deaths remained abstract, the grief hidden and not shared.

latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Just remarkable how overdue, and how simple, it is for a leader to orchestrate a moment of national mourning. And how cathartic.
This @ChrisJansing live shot following the memorial, expressing personal grief and contextualizing a nation's shared pain, was just so, so moving, and well said.

Worth a click if you missed it live:

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Trump takes the stage in GA and it's immediate, unfiltered denial:

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Trump starts with a clear lie.

"If you count the legal votes, I easily win," he said.

No indication any of the votes currently being counted are illegal.
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It's true public polling was off, not true it was a suppression tactic. Also an odd argument, that his voters stayed home, when he's bragging about his big win.
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It's 2:21 and POTUS has entered the East Room.

He says "millions" voted for us and "a very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise that group."

On the screen, the Electoral Map shows Biden 220, Trump 213.
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He is listing states he won, and those he hopes to win.

On GA: "They're never going to catch us."
So there are prompters set up but this is just...a riff on the results he has been watching for several hours.
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3 Nov 20
Trump begins his final 2020 rally at 11:59 p.m. in Grand Rapids, where he held his final rally in 2016.

"We want to do it just like last time," he said, "but give me a little more margin than last time."
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"I know for a fact we're doing very well in Texas."
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"No matter what happens, I'm very proud of you all," he said. "But if we don't win, I'll never speak to you again."
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Some technical issues in Kenosha to start rally no. 4. Trump complains about his microphone and the crowd yells that it can't hear him in the back.
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"Is this guy really thinking about? Could he really win? Are we serious about this? [Boos] What the hell is going on? Are we serious? Guy has no clue. He's shot."
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