As Trump continues to grapple with his ego in the days following Joe Biden's election win, former president, George W. Bush, has offered some wise words of advice...
It's been a rough week for Donald Trump.
Of course, Trump has been doing everything in his power to challenge the result...
Well, former POTUS, George W. Bush, who is no stranger to controversy himself, has now waded into the situation.
Now, this year's presidential election has been perhaps the most anticipated in decades.
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And, as Trump and Biden went head-to-head, a record number of Americans made sure to get their votes in early.However, it brought with it a lengthy counting process.
Though polls across the country closed on Tuesday, November 3rd...
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It took days for a result to be announced. As the days trickled by, each State gradually announced their winning candidate and, throughout those tense couple of days, the numbers remained painfully close between President Trump and former vice president, Joe Biden.Trump was clearly feeling the heat...
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And, as the counts went underway, he tried to temporarily stop vote-counting in Michigan and Pennsylvania, States where Joe Biden was projected to win.He also called for a recount in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania...
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And then went on to threaten legal action against any State wherein Biden had won.Though a Biden campaign lawyer brushed off the threats as "meritless."
But, regardless of his many threats, the result were in after 4 long days of ballot counting.
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The Associated Press called the race for Biden when Pennsylvania's twenty electoral votes put him over the 270-vote threshold needed to win the Electoral College - meaning Biden had officially won the election.Shortly after his victory, Biden tweeted this:
America, I’m honored that you have chosen me to lead our great country. The work ahead of us will be hard, but I p… https://t.co/iUORklENs0— Joe Biden (@Joe Biden)1604767962.0
Democrats all over the country have been rejoicing at the news of Biden's historic win...
We just learned that Joe Biden has been elected 46th President of the United States, New York can’t stop cheering.… https://t.co/8mPwgcn0tx— Quentin A. Alexandre (@Quentin A. Alexandre)1604767345.0
However, there's someone who isn't in the mood for celebrating...
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And that's President Trump, of course.Now, Trump's reaction to Biden's win has been nothing short of outrageous.
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Though the president is a historically sore loser - he's very rarely had to admit defeat ever in his life - and has long made wild accusations against the Biden campaign team, people simply cannot believe his refusal to accept what has happened.His first response to Biden's win was to release a lengthy and damning statement...
The statement then went on to explain how legal proceedings will begin immediately.
And the frenzied Twitter rants were quick to follow.
In his rage, Trump took to the social media platform to dispute the result further, insisting that he was the one to have won.He tried to take some small victory from the situation...
And proudly Tweeted that he received a record-breaking number of votes. Whatever helps you sleep at night, Don.However, more damning accusations were quick to follow...
Trump seems set on the idea that Biden and his team rigged the entire election to play out in their favor, and made strong hints that something happened in the counting rooms that had "never happened before."And it didn't take him long to slam the Biden campaign as "thieves."
"The big city machines are corrupt. This was a stolen election. Best pollster in Britain wrote this morning that this clearly was a stolen election, that it’s impossible to imagine that Biden outran Obama in some of these states."Yep, I told you it was outrageous.
He started by offering his congratulations to the president-elect, Joe Biden.
The statement continued:
“The President-elect reiterated that while he ran as a Democrat, he will govern for all Americans. I offered him the same thing I offered Presidents Trump and Obama: my prayers for his success, and my pledge to help in any way I can."Bush, who did not endorse Trump in 2016 or this year, then congratulated Trump and his supporters on a “hard-fought campaign."
He then added this:
“President Trump has the right to request recounts and pursue legal challenges, and any unresolved issues will be properly adjudicated. The American people can have confidence that this election was fundamentally fair, its integrity will be upheld, and its outcome is clear."You can see a copy of his full statement here.
NEW: George W. Bush today spoke President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. "Though we have… https://t.co/jAZOnBFEcm— Matt Viser (@Matt Viser)1604856264.0