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US President Donald Trump said on Thursday (26) that he would leave the White House if the Electoral College votes in favor of President-elect Joe Biden, in the statement closest to an admission of his defeat in the elections on the 3rd. November, despite continuing to repeat his unfounded accusations that there was widespread electoral fraud.
Speaking to reporters on Thanksgiving, Trump said that if Biden, who will take office on January 20, is confirmed as the winner of the Electoral College election, he will leave the White House.
But Trump said it would be difficult for him to admit defeat under the current circumstances and declined to say whether he would attend Biden’s inauguration.
“This election was a fraud,” Trump insisted in a sometimes inconsistent speech at the White House, in which he continued without offering concrete evidence of widespread electoral irregularities.
Biden won the election and garnered 306 Electoral College votes (far more than the 270 needed to guarantee victory), to Trump’s 232, and the Electoral College meeting is scheduled for December 14 to formalize the result. Biden also beats Trump by more than 6 million votes in the popular vote count.
So far, Trump has refused to fully acknowledge his defeat, although last week, with increased pressure from his own Republican Party, he agreed to authorize the start of the official power transition process.
When asked if he would leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for Biden, Trump said: “Certainly, I will. I certainly will. And you know it,” he said. “But I think a lot will happen between now and January 20. A lot of things,” he said. “Massive fraud has been discovered. We are like a Third World country.”
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