President Trump still won't concede his loss to Joe Biden
Despite losing both the popular vote at 78.8 to 73.1 million votes as well as the electoral college at 306 to 232 votes, President Donald Trump has refused to concede the 2020 election to Joe Biden. It is safe to say that based on n the evidence that Biden and Harris did in fact win the election. It was certainly a very emotional and potentially dangerous contest with a serious possibility of unrest and violence. However, since Joe Biden appears to have won, his supporters have remained mostly calm and Trump's supporters have not engaged in violence, even if they refuse to concede that their leader lost the election. Trump himself seemed to admit in a tweet over the weekend that Biden won, but then backtracked and tweeted: “He only won in the eyes of the FAKE NEWS MEDIA,” Trump subsequently tweeted. “I concede NOTHING! We have a long way to go. This was a RIGGED ELECTION!." Meanwhile in an interview over the weekend former president Obama made the statement: "And when your time is up then it is your job to put the country first and think beyond your own ego, and your own interests, and your own disappointments. My advice to President Trump is, if you want at this late stage in the game to be remembered as somebody who put country first, it’s time for you to do the same thing”. President Trump's lawyers continue to make legal challenges to contest voting in different states, but it is clear in the end that he will lose. It is therefore time for President Trump to simply admit this and move on. (Trump tweets words ‘he won’; says vote rigged, not conceding)
Obama says election results show nation is deeply divided
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Question: What should the United States do if Trump refuses to concede?
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