Trump made many missteps during this week’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, but he especially floundered when asked about the results of 2020’s race, which Trump seemingly can’t help but dispute after losing to President Joe Biden.
The question stemmed from Trump’s comments on a podcast, in which he said he lost the 2020 race “by a whisker,” a rare, but not new, admission from the notorious election denier. “I was told that if I got 63 million, which is what I got the first time, you would win,” he said in part. “You can’t not win. And I got millions of more votes than that. And I lost by a whisker.”
On Tuesday, ABC News debate co-moderator David Muir asked Trump about those comments, noting that Trump for years has claimed the 2020 election was stolen from him. But, “in the past couple of weeks leading up to this debate, you have said, quote, you lost by a whisker, that you, quote, didn't quite make it, that you came up a little bit short,” Muir said.
Trump responded that he said that "sarcastically.” When pressed by Muir, though, he elaborated. “All you have to do is look at it and they should have sent it back to the legislatures for approval. I got almost 75 million votes, the most votes any sitting president has ever gotten. I was told if I got 63, which is what I got in 2016, you can’t be beaten.”
Muir also referenced a tweet from Marc Elias, who founded Democracy Docket in part because of the flurry of election cases during the 2020 election. Muir asked Harris about Trump’s threat to weaponize the criminal justice system against his political opponents.
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