US Elections: Reporter Asks Donald Trump If He’s ‘Being A Bad Loser’

A journalist yelled at Donald Trump to ask if he was “being a sore loser” as the president left a press conference at the White House on Friday (Saturday NZT) without answering questions.

Trump, in his first public appearance in a week, announced new pharmaceutical pricing plans before deviating back to the election, insisting he “won.”

“Big Pharma ran millions of dollars in negative ads against me during the campaign, which, by the way, I won, but we’ll find out,” Trump said.

Leaving the meeting room without answering questions, the reporter, believed to be CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang, yelled, “President, are you being a sore loser?”

Further back in the room, Brian Karem from Playboy yelled, “You lost the election! When will you admit you lost the election? When will you admit you lost the election?”

Trump hasn’t received any questions from reporters since before the election.

The president continues to claim that he has a viable path to victory if a series of audits, accounts, and trials follow his path, but that path becomes increasingly narrow.

Trump’s showdown with journalists followed Vice President Mike Pence and White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany engaging in similar battles.

Logic dictates that Trump’s days in the White House are numbered, with key states sealing presumptive President-elect Joe Biden’s victory fast approaching the deadlines to certify his election results.

Georgia on Friday (local time) became the first of them to formally certify its results, stating that Biden won the southern state by 12,670 votes, or 0.26 percent, a severe blow to Trump’s efforts to block the count.

“The numbers don’t lie,” said Brad Raffensperger, Republican secretary of state for Georgia. “The numbers reflect the verdict of the people.”

Trump criticized the count as “pointless” due to the lack of signature verification.

He had previously insisted that Georgia would win if the state allowed it “to expose hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots.”

The Electoral College meets in each state on December 14 to formally vote on the winner.

The president spent most of the day huddled in the White House, enraged by the “rigged election” and retweeting conservative personalities, arguing that his rival’s victory was fraudulent.

Retired Senator Lamar Alexander became the latest Republican lawmaker to seek to push Trump into a formal transition process.

Biden “has a very good chance” of becoming the next president, Alexander said, and should be given “all” the resources necessary for a smooth transfer of power.

Despite Trump’s election denial, Biden is fully preparing to take office on January 20.

Trump also took the unprecedented step of hosting Michigan legislative leaders, where he seeks to prevent the state from certifying the results that gave Biden a 155,000 vote victory.

The move angered state Democrats, and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell accused Republican lawmakers of trying to “subvert our democracy.”

Republican Senator Mitt Romney condemned the measure, as did former Republican Senator Jeff Flake.

Republican senators Ben Sasse and Joni Ernst also criticized the tactic.

Yet Trump’s legal team continues to fight.