‘We didn’t win.’ Trump appears to admit Biden won election in Fox News interview
BY MIKE STUNSON
More than seven months after the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump appeared to admit his defeat on Wednesday.
In an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, Trump said the results of the 2020 election were “shocking.” President Joe Biden won the election with 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232, but the results continue to be disputed.
“We got them by surprise in ‘16, and in ‘20 we did much better than we did in ‘16,” Trump told Hannity. “Shockingly, we were supposed to win easily at 64 million votes and we got 75 million votes. We didn’t win, but let’s see what happens on that. The whole thing was shocking.”
NC Republicans vote to stop mail-in ballots from being counted after Election DayBiden carried key battleground states that include Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona. He had more than 81 million total votes, while Trump had just over 74 million. Both totals were more than any presidential candidate in history.
Trump said in the interview he wants Biden to do well as president.
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“I think the election was unbelievably unfair, but I want this guy to go out and do well for our country,” he said.
Trump conceded the election in January before Biden took office, but the former president and his supporters continue to challenge results in several states. There has been no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the election.
Among the audits is a hand recount of 2.1 million ballots in Arizona’s most populous county. The counting, which took place after Trump alleged voter fraud in the state, has taken nearly two months. Results of the recount have not been shared.
Biden met with Russia President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday for their first face-to-face talks. It was that moment, according to Maggie Haberman with The New York Times, when Trump and those around him felt, “Oh, someone else is president and not Donald Trump.”
“This is the event that underscored for people around Trump and the former president himself the fact that he’s not president anymore,” Haberman said in a CNN interview Thursday. “This was the kind of event on the world stage, getting enormous attention, that he really enjoyed, that he saw as one of the trappings of the office that he thought spoke to a sense of power and strength.”
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