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WASHINGTON (AFP) – President-elect Joe Biden said on Wednesday (November 25) that Americans “will not tolerate” attempts to derail the outcome of the US election, but Donald Trump redoubled his unprecedented refusal to admit defeat and called for the results. to be overridden.
In a speech on the eve of Thanksgiving, Biden said in his hometown of Delaware that Americans “have full, fair and free elections, and then we honor the results.” “The people of this nation and the laws of the country will not tolerate anything else,” he said.
The Democrat’s statement pointed to a tightening line against Trump, who for more than three weeks has been promoting conspiracy theories, without meaningful evidence, that Biden stole the victory on November 3.
However, Trump dug in his heels. “We have to turn the election around,” he told Republican supporters in Pennsylvania.
“This election was rigged,” Trump said by phone, repeating several claims of vote manipulation that have been struck down in courts across the country. Trump said “all we need is for some judge to hear him correctly.”
Trump was due to appear first in person at the Republican rally, which took place near the Gettysburg Civil War battlefield. He canceled at the last minute.
The meeting, which also featured Trump’s controversial personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, was falsely portrayed by the president on Twitter as a “very important Pennsylvania State Senate hearing.” In fact, it was held at a small-town hotel and, rather than an official hearing, it was simply a forum for ardent Trump supporters to push forward their claims without evidence.
Biden won Pennsylvania by a margin of 80,000 votes on November 3, helping him achieve a convincing victory at the national level and making Trump a one-term president.
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Giuliani and other Trump attorneys have seen unfounded challenges to vote counts rejected by courts across the country. The allegations by the legal team are routinely full of exaggerations and sometimes grossly inaccurate claims.
Addressing the Republican group in Pennsylvania, Giuliani, for example, stated that Trump and Biden had been “separated by one percent” in the state of Virginia and that Trump “may have actually won.” In fact, Biden won there by a 10 percent margin.
And while Trump alleges, among other conspiracy theories, that voting machines deliberately erased millions of their votes, the government’s election security agency declared this election “the safest” in US history.
After coming under pressure from a slowly forming trickle from senior Republicans, Trump on Monday ended his blockade of government assistance to facilitate Biden’s preparation to take office on January 20.
But Trump has yet to take the simplest steps in normal post-election protocol, starting with a phone call to Biden.
“No, I have not heard from President Trump,” Biden told NBC News.
Given Trump’s threats before the election not to acknowledge the results, Biden told NBC that he is “not surprised by the president’s response.”
Since the election, Trump has largely disappeared from his regular work schedule and has not once answered questions from journalists.
However, adding to the feeling that he is focused on preparing his next political event, he continues to raise money from supporters who contribute to an “Official Electoral Defense Fund.”
Much of that money does not go to attorneys promoting his fraud allegations, but instead is funneled to pay off 2020 campaign debts and build a future war chest with Trump’s political action committee.
Kate Bedingfield, a spokeswoman for Biden, said the outgoing president was now the last person to accept the reality of the election.
“Virtually everyone on Earth has accepted that truth, except Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani,” he said.
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