Certainly i will. Certainly i will. And you know that. Howie when reuters correspondent jeff mason kept pressing him about the Electoral College, the president punched back. Look, between you people dont talk to me that way. Youre just a lightweight. Dont talk to me that im the president of the united states. Dont ever talk to the president that way. Howie the media largely celebrating President Trumps decision to cooperate with a joe biden election without concession. The 2020 president ial election was not fair. No honest person would claim that it was fair. They rigged the election in front of all of us. And nobody did anything about it. Unless the legal situation changes in a dramatic and frankly unlikely manner, joe biden will be inaugurated on january 20th. To say this constitutes living in reality. And if i offered you a false reality, if i told you there was an excellent phenomenal chance that the Supreme Court was going to step in and deliver a victory to President Trump, id b
8002. U are unsure, 202748 you can text us at 2027488903. On twitter it is cspan. Wj. And facebook. It is republicans only for that question. We will open it up tomorrow for democrats only in our first hour of the program as well. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. One of those former supporters and fox opinion commentator opinion writer in the wall street journal. Bases his peace. The headline, this election result will not be overturned. Occasionally change margins in the hundreds but not in the tens of thousands. It has been an unsettling year, at deadly virus claimed almost a quarter million lives, a lockdown demolished personal routines and left us gasping for normality, a sudden deep depression snatched newfound prosperity for families, so why not finish out with a miscast election as the finale . Trump is that mr. Pursuing legal challenges in pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, arizona, nevada, and there will be an automatic recount in georgia given bidens. 29 lead.
Hes fighting for because to be some kind of front this country. How low you are watching our teams national the sauce save the 7th. Its now fool day since the u. S. Election and it looks like we might find me have a result a number of media are projecting the joe biden has been elected the fool to president of america having secured 273 Electoral College votes just to remind 270 are needed for victory the former v. P. When in his home state of pennsylvania has pushed him across that threshold donald trump meanwhile stands at 214 well lets cross live now to. Wolf and whos in new york ok to everyone wanted to know the results from pennsylvania some more details are coming out in huge moment for joe biden thought tom lucky it seems. Indeed joe biden seems to be declaring himself the winner of the president ial election i however if you look on social media just shortly before hand we got dom trump proclaiming on twitter that he won by a lot but at this point the media seems to be echoing
Elections for the senate in georgia and as things stand now if they focus they regroup if the party is seen as responsible and forward looking they have a every chance of winning those 2 seats and therefore holding the senate if they join with trumps you know lawsuits and refusal to move forward and you know inflammatory tweets and all of that it may be seen as so irresponsible that the voters of georgia who ought to reward them with 2 senate seats might in fact go the other direction its unpredictable so it may be that Mitch Mcconnell the kentucky senator who is the Republican Senate majority leader is actually telling donald trump you know we need to hold the senate your battle is probably lost anyway but we need to fight this one and yours is hurting ours i think you have a good point there regarding with the public reaction to this we just saw all those people celebrating. Oh but you know joe biden got around as a 7374000000 votes trump still got almost 70 so thats 17000000 people
For those not voting this year you can call us at 202 . 488003 we begin with a story from the Associated Press this morning about early voting. A record avalanche of early votes has transformed the 2020 election. You can see pictures of folks voting in durham, North Carolina for the beginning goes like this. More than 22 million americans have already cast ballots in the 2020 election. A record shattering avalanche of early votes. The pandemic has transformed the way the nation votes. 22. 2 million, thats as a friday night, ballots submitted, representing 15 of all votes cast in the 2016 election. Even as eight states are not yet reporting their totals and voters still have more than two weeks to cast ballots. Americans rushed to vote, leading that a record of 150 million votes may be cast and turnout rates could be higher than any president ial election since 1908. The story goes on to say that so far, the turnout has been lopsided with democrats out in 42 republicans by 21 states. Re