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Trump's Remarks on the Election; November 5, 2020
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Remarks by President Trump on the Election
Issued on: November 5, 2020
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
6:48 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Id like to provide the American people with an update on our efforts to protect the integrity of our very important 2020 election. If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. If you count the votes that came in late were looking at them very strongly. But a lot of votes came in late.
Ive already decisively won many critical states, including massive victories in Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, to name just a few. We won these and many other victories despite historic election interference from big media, big money, and big tech.
As everybody saw, we won by historic numbers. And the pollsters got it knowingly wrong. They got it knowingly wrong. We had polls that were so ridiculous, and everybody knew that at the time. There was no blue wave that they predicted. They thought there was going to be a big blue wave; that was false. That was done for suppression reasons. But instead, there was a big red wave.
And its been properly acknowledged, actually, by the media. They were, I think, very impressed, but that was after the fact. That doesnt do us any good.
We kept the Senate, despite having twice as many seats to defend as Democrats. And in a really much more competitive states, weve we did a fantastic job with the Senate, and I think were very proud of whats happened there. We had many more seats to defend.
They spent almost $200 million on Senate races in South Carolina and Kentucky alone two races and hundreds of millions of dollars overall against us. At the national level, our opponents major donors were Wall Street bankers and special interests. Our major donors were police officers, farmers, everyday citizens. Yet for the first time ever, we lost zero races in the House. I was talking to Kevin McCarthy today. He said he couldnt believe it: zero races. Very unusual thing. Zero. And actually won many new seats with, I think, many more on the way.
This was also the year of the Republican woman. More Republican women were elected to Congress than ever before. Thats a great achievement. I won the largest share of non-white voters of any Republican in 60 years, including historic numbers of Latino, African American, Asian American, and Native American voters the largest ever in our history. We grew our party by 4 million voters, the greatest turnout in Republican Party history.
Democrats are the party of the big donors, the big media, the big tech, it seems. And Republicans have become the party of the American worker, and thats whats happened. And were also, I believe, the party of inclusion.
As everyone now recognizes, media polling was election interference, in the truest sense of that word, by powerful special interests. These really phony polls I have to call them phony polls, fake polls were designed to keep our voters at home, create the illusion of momentum for Mr. Biden, and diminish Republicans ability to raise funds. They were whats called suppression polls. Everyone knows that now. And its never been used to the extent that its been used on this last election.
To highlight just a few examples: The day before election, Quinnipiac which was wrong on every occasion that I know of had Joe Biden up by 5 points in Florida, and they were off by 8.4 points. And I won Florida easily. Easily. So, they had me losing Florida by a lot, and I ended up winning Florida by a lot. Other than that, they were very accurate. They had him up 4 points in Ohio, and they were off by 12.2 points. And I also won Ohio the great state of Ohio very easily.
The Washington Post had Biden up 17 points in Wisconsin, and it was basically even. They were off by about 17 points, and they knew that. Theyre not stupid people. They knew that. Suppression.
There are now only a few states yet to be decided in the presidential race. The voting apparatus of those states are run, in all cases, by Democrats.
We were winning in all the key locations by a lot, actually. And then our number started miraculously getting whittled away in secret, and they wouldnt allow legally permissible observers. We went to court, in a couple of instances, and we were able to get the observers put in. And when the observers got there, they wanted them 60, 70 feet away, 80 feet, 100 feet away or outside the building to observe people inside the building.
And we won a case a big case. And we have others happening. There are a lot of lots of litigation. Even beyond our litigation, theres tremendous amount of litigation generally because of how unfair this process was, and I predicted that. Ive been talking about mail-in voting for a long time. Its its really destroyed our system.
Its a corrupt system. And it makes people corrupt even if they arent by nature, but they become corrupt; its too easy. They want to find out how many votes they need, and then they seem to be able to find them. They wait and wait, and then they find them.
And you see that on Election Night. We were ahead in votes in North Carolina by a lot tremendous number of votes. And were still ahead by a lot, but not as many because theyre finding ballots all of a sudden. Oh, we have some mail-in ballots.
Its amazing how those mail-in ballots are so one-sided, too. I know that its supposed to be to the advantage of the Democrats, but in all cases, theyre so one-sided.
We were up by nearly 700,000 votes in Pennsylvania. I won Pennsylvania by a lot, and that gets whittled down to I think they said now were up by 90,000 votes. And theyll keep coming and coming and coming. They find them all over. And they dont want us to have any observers, although we won a court case. The judge said you have to have observers.
Likewise, in Geor- and theyre appealing. Actually, theyre appealing. We won a case that we want people to watch and we want observers, and theyre actually appealing, which is sort of interesting. I wonder why theyd appeal that all we want to do is have people watch as they do the vote tabulations.
Likewise, in Georgia, I won by a lot a lot with a lead of over getting close to 300,000 votes on Election Night in Georgia. And, by the way, got whittled down, and now its getting to be to a point where Ill go from winning by a lot to perhaps being even down a little bit.
In Georgia, a pipe burst in a faraway location, totally unrelated to the location of what was happening, and they stopped counting for four hours, and a lot of things happened. The election apparatus in Georgia is run by Democrats.
We also had margins of 300,000 in Michigan. We were way up in Michigan; won the state. And in Wisconsin, we did likewise fantastically well. And that got whittled down. Every in every case, they got whittled down.
Today, were on track to win Arizona. We only need to carry, I guess, 55 percent of the remaining vote 55 percent margins. And thats a margin that weve significantly exceeded. So well see what happens with that, but were on track to do okay in Arizona.
Our goal is to defend the integrity of the election. Well not allow the corruption to steal such an important election or any election, for that matter. And we cant allow silence anybody to silence our voters and manufacture results.
Ive never had Ive been doing a lot of public things for a long time; Ive never had anything thats been as inspirational by people calling, talking, sending things to us. Ive never seen such such love and such affection and such spirit as Ive seen for this. People know whats happening, and they see whats happening, and its before their eyes.
And there are many instances which will be reported very shortly. Theres tremendous litigation going on. And this is a case where theyre trying to steal an election, theyre trying to rig an election, and we cant let that happen. Detroit and Philadelphia known as two of the most corrupt political places anywhere in our country, easily cannot be responsible for engineering the outcome of a presidential race a very important presidential race.
In Pennsylvania, Democrats have gone to the State Supreme Court to try and ban our election observers, and very strongly. Now, we won the case, but theyre theyre going forward. They dont want anybody in there. They dont want anybody watching them as they count the ballots, and I cant imagine why. Theres absolutely no legitimate reason why they would not want to have people watching this process, because if its straight, they would be they should be proud of it. Instead, theyre trying, obviously, to commit fraud. Theres no question about that.
In Philadelphia, observers have been kept far away very far away so far that people are using binoculars to try and see, and theres been tremendous problems caused. They put paper on all of the windows so you cant see in, and the people that are banned are very unhappy and become somewhat violent.
The 11th Circuit ruled that, in Georgia, the votes have been in by Election Day that they should be in by Election Day, and they werent. Votes are coming in after Election Day. And they had a ruling already that you have to have the votes in by Election Day. To the best of my knowledge, votes should be in by Election Day, and they didnt do that.
Democrat officials never believed they could win this election honestly. I really believe that. Thats why they did the mail-in ballots, where theres tremendous corruption and fraud going on. Thats why they mailed out tens of millions of unsolicited ballots without any verification measures whatsoever. And Ive told everybody that these things would happen, because Ive seen it happen. I watched a lot of different elections before they decided to go with this big, massive election with tens of millions of ballots going out to everybody in many cases, totally unsolicited.
This was unprecedented in American history. This was by design. Despite years of claiming to care about the election security, they refuse to include any requirement to verify signatures, identities, or even determine whether theyre eligible or ineligible to vote. People are walking in that they have no idea; theyre just taking numbers. Theyre writing down things the workers and doing a lot of bad things. And we have a lot of information coming and litigation that youll see that will shake even you people up, and youve seen it all.
The officials overseeing the counting in Pennsylvania and other key states are all part of a corrupt Democrat machine that youve written about and, for a long time, youve been writing about the corrupt Democrat machine. I went to school there, and I know a lot about it. It hasnt changed. Its a long time ago, and it hasnt changed. Its gotten worse.
In Pennsylvania, partisan Democrats have allowed ballots in the state to be received three days after the election, and we think much more than that. And they are counting those without even postmarks or any identification whatsoever. So you dont have postmarks; you dont have identification. There have been a number of disturbing irregularities across the nation. Our campaign has been denied access to observe any counting in Detroit. Detroit is another place.
So you dont have postmarks; you dont have identification. There have been a number of disturbing irregularities across the nation. Our campaign has been denied access to observe any counting in Detroit. Detroit is another place and I wouldnt say has the best reputation for election integrity.
Poll workers in Michigan were duplicating ballots. But when our observers attempted to challenge the activity, those poll workers jumped in front of the volunteers to block their view so that they couldnt see what they were doing, and it became a little bit dangerous.
One major hub for counting ballots in Detroit covered up the windows, again, with large pieces of cardboard. And so they wanted to protect and block the counting area. They didnt want anybody seeing the counting, even though these were observers who are legal observers that were supposed to be there.
In Detroit, there were hours of unexplained delay in delivering many of the votes for counting. The final batch did not arrive until four in the morning and even though the polls closed at eight oclock. So they brought it in, and the batches came in, and nobody knew where they came from. Weve also been denied access to observe in critical places in Georgia.
In multiple swing states, counting was halted for hours and hours on Election Night, with results withheld from major Democrat-run locations, only to appear later. And they certainly appeared, and they all had the name Biden on them, or just about all I think almost all. They all had the name Biden on them, which is a little strange.
I challenge Joe and every Democrat to clarify that they only want legal votes. Because they talk about votes, and I think they should use the word legal legal votes. We want every legal vote counted. And I want every legal vote counted. We want openness and transparency no secret count rooms, no mystery ballots, no illegal votes being cast after Election Day.
You have Election Day, and the laws are very strong on that. You have an Election Day. And they dont want votes cast after Election Day, and they want the process to be an honest one. Its so important. We want an honest election, and we want an honest count, and we want honest people working back there because its a very important job.
So thats the way this country is going to win. Thats the way the United States will win. And we think we will win the election very easily. We think theres going to be a lot of litigation because we have so much evidence, so much proof. And its going to end up, perhaps, at the highest court in the land. Well see. But we think therell be a lot of litigation because we cant have an election stolen by like this.
And I I tell you, I would I have been talking about this for many months with all of you. And Ive said very strongly that mail-in ballots are going to end up being a disaster. Small elections were a disaster. Small, very easy-to-handle elections were disastrous.
This is a large-scale version, and its getting worse and worse every day. Were hearing stories that are horror stories absolute horror stories. And we cant let that happen to the United States of America. Its not a question of who wins Republican, Democrat; Joe, myself. We cant let that happen to our country. We cant be disgraced by having something like this happen.
So it will be hopefully cleared up, maybe soon; I hope soon. But itll probably go through a process a legal process. And, as you know, Ive claimed certain states and hes claiming states. So we can both claim the states, but ultimately I have a feeling judges are going to have to rule. But theres been a lot of shenanigans, and we cant stand for that in our country.
Thank you very much.
END
7:04 P.M. EST
Remarks by President Trump on the Election
Issued on: November 5, 2020
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
6:48 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Id like to provide the American people with an update on our efforts to protect the integrity of our very important 2020 election. If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. If you count the votes that came in late were looking at them very strongly. But a lot of votes came in late.
Ive already decisively won many critical states, including massive victories in Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, to name just a few. We won these and many other victories despite historic election interference from big media, big money, and big tech.
As everybody saw, we won by historic numbers. And the pollsters got it knowingly wrong. They got it knowingly wrong. We had polls that were so ridiculous, and everybody knew that at the time. There was no blue wave that they predicted. They thought there was going to be a big blue wave; that was false. That was done for suppression reasons. But instead, there was a big red wave.
And its been properly acknowledged, actually, by the media. They were, I think, very impressed, but that was after the fact. That doesnt do us any good.
We kept the Senate, despite having twice as many seats to defend as Democrats. And in a really much more competitive states, weve we did a fantastic job with the Senate, and I think were very proud of whats happened there. We had many more seats to defend.
They spent almost $200 million on Senate races in South Carolina and Kentucky alone two races and hundreds of millions of dollars overall against us. At the national level, our opponents major donors were Wall Street bankers and special interests. Our major donors were police officers, farmers, everyday citizens. Yet for the first time ever, we lost zero races in the House. I was talking to Kevin McCarthy today. He said he couldnt believe it: zero races. Very unusual thing. Zero. And actually won many new seats with, I think, many more on the way.
This was also the year of the Republican woman. More Republican women were elected to Congress than ever before. Thats a great achievement. I won the largest share of non-white voters of any Republican in 60 years, including historic numbers of Latino, African American, Asian American, and Native American voters the largest ever in our history. We grew our party by 4 million voters, the greatest turnout in Republican Party history.
Democrats are the party of the big donors, the big media, the big tech, it seems. And Republicans have become the party of the American worker, and thats whats happened. And were also, I believe, the party of inclusion.
As everyone now recognizes, media polling was election interference, in the truest sense of that word, by powerful special interests. These really phony polls I have to call them phony polls, fake polls were designed to keep our voters at home, create the illusion of momentum for Mr. Biden, and diminish Republicans ability to raise funds. They were whats called suppression polls. Everyone knows that now. And its never been used to the extent that its been used on this last election.
To highlight just a few examples: The day before election, Quinnipiac which was wrong on every occasion that I know of had Joe Biden up by 5 points in Florida, and they were off by 8.4 points. And I won Florida easily. Easily. So, they had me losing Florida by a lot, and I ended up winning Florida by a lot. Other than that, they were very accurate. They had him up 4 points in Ohio, and they were off by 12.2 points. And I also won Ohio the great state of Ohio very easily.
The Washington Post had Biden up 17 points in Wisconsin, and it was basically even. They were off by about 17 points, and they knew that. Theyre not stupid people. They knew that. Suppression.
There are now only a few states yet to be decided in the presidential race. The voting apparatus of those states are run, in all cases, by Democrats.
We were winning in all the key locations by a lot, actually. And then our number started miraculously getting whittled away in secret, and they wouldnt allow legally permissible observers. We went to court, in a couple of instances, and we were able to get the observers put in. And when the observers got there, they wanted them 60, 70 feet away, 80 feet, 100 feet away or outside the building to observe people inside the building.
And we won a case a big case. And we have others happening. There are a lot of lots of litigation. Even beyond our litigation, theres tremendous amount of litigation generally because of how unfair this process was, and I predicted that. Ive been talking about mail-in voting for a long time. Its its really destroyed our system.
Its a corrupt system. And it makes people corrupt even if they arent by nature, but they become corrupt; its too easy. They want to find out how many votes they need, and then they seem to be able to find them. They wait and wait, and then they find them.
And you see that on Election Night. We were ahead in votes in North Carolina by a lot tremendous number of votes. And were still ahead by a lot, but not as many because theyre finding ballots all of a sudden. Oh, we have some mail-in ballots.
Its amazing how those mail-in ballots are so one-sided, too. I know that its supposed to be to the advantage of the Democrats, but in all cases, theyre so one-sided.
We were up by nearly 700,000 votes in Pennsylvania. I won Pennsylvania by a lot, and that gets whittled down to I think they said now were up by 90,000 votes. And theyll keep coming and coming and coming. They find them all over. And they dont want us to have any observers, although we won a court case. The judge said you have to have observers.
Likewise, in Geor- and theyre appealing. Actually, theyre appealing. We won a case that we want people to watch and we want observers, and theyre actually appealing, which is sort of interesting. I wonder why theyd appeal that all we want to do is have people watch as they do the vote tabulations.
Likewise, in Georgia, I won by a lot a lot with a lead of over getting close to 300,000 votes on Election Night in Georgia. And, by the way, got whittled down, and now its getting to be to a point where Ill go from winning by a lot to perhaps being even down a little bit.
In Georgia, a pipe burst in a faraway location, totally unrelated to the location of what was happening, and they stopped counting for four hours, and a lot of things happened. The election apparatus in Georgia is run by Democrats.
We also had margins of 300,000 in Michigan. We were way up in Michigan; won the state. And in Wisconsin, we did likewise fantastically well. And that got whittled down. Every in every case, they got whittled down.
Today, were on track to win Arizona. We only need to carry, I guess, 55 percent of the remaining vote 55 percent margins. And thats a margin that weve significantly exceeded. So well see what happens with that, but were on track to do okay in Arizona.
Our goal is to defend the integrity of the election. Well not allow the corruption to steal such an important election or any election, for that matter. And we cant allow silence anybody to silence our voters and manufacture results.
Ive never had Ive been doing a lot of public things for a long time; Ive never had anything thats been as inspirational by people calling, talking, sending things to us. Ive never seen such such love and such affection and such spirit as Ive seen for this. People know whats happening, and they see whats happening, and its before their eyes.
And there are many instances which will be reported very shortly. Theres tremendous litigation going on. And this is a case where theyre trying to steal an election, theyre trying to rig an election, and we cant let that happen. Detroit and Philadelphia known as two of the most corrupt political places anywhere in our country, easily cannot be responsible for engineering the outcome of a presidential race a very important presidential race.
In Pennsylvania, Democrats have gone to the State Supreme Court to try and ban our election observers, and very strongly. Now, we won the case, but theyre theyre going forward. They dont want anybody in there. They dont want anybody watching them as they count the ballots, and I cant imagine why. Theres absolutely no legitimate reason why they would not want to have people watching this process, because if its straight, they would be they should be proud of it. Instead, theyre trying, obviously, to commit fraud. Theres no question about that.
In Philadelphia, observers have been kept far away very far away so far that people are using binoculars to try and see, and theres been tremendous problems caused. They put paper on all of the windows so you cant see in, and the people that are banned are very unhappy and become somewhat violent.
The 11th Circuit ruled that, in Georgia, the votes have been in by Election Day that they should be in by Election Day, and they werent. Votes are coming in after Election Day. And they had a ruling already that you have to have the votes in by Election Day. To the best of my knowledge, votes should be in by Election Day, and they didnt do that.
Democrat officials never believed they could win this election honestly. I really believe that. Thats why they did the mail-in ballots, where theres tremendous corruption and fraud going on. Thats why they mailed out tens of millions of unsolicited ballots without any verification measures whatsoever. And Ive told everybody that these things would happen, because Ive seen it happen. I watched a lot of different elections before they decided to go with this big, massive election with tens of millions of ballots going out to everybody in many cases, totally unsolicited.
This was unprecedented in American history. This was by design. Despite years of claiming to care about the election security, they refuse to include any requirement to verify signatures, identities, or even determine whether theyre eligible or ineligible to vote. People are walking in that they have no idea; theyre just taking numbers. Theyre writing down things the workers and doing a lot of bad things. And we have a lot of information coming and litigation that youll see that will shake even you people up, and youve seen it all.
The officials overseeing the counting in Pennsylvania and other key states are all part of a corrupt Democrat machine that youve written about and, for a long time, youve been writing about the corrupt Democrat machine. I went to school there, and I know a lot about it. It hasnt changed. Its a long time ago, and it hasnt changed. Its gotten worse.
In Pennsylvania, partisan Democrats have allowed ballots in the state to be received three days after the election, and we think much more than that. And they are counting those without even postmarks or any identification whatsoever. So you dont have postmarks; you dont have identification. There have been a number of disturbing irregularities across the nation. Our campaign has been denied access to observe any counting in Detroit. Detroit is another place.
So you dont have postmarks; you dont have identification. There have been a number of disturbing irregularities across the nation. Our campaign has been denied access to observe any counting in Detroit. Detroit is another place and I wouldnt say has the best reputation for election integrity.
Poll workers in Michigan were duplicating ballots. But when our observers attempted to challenge the activity, those poll workers jumped in front of the volunteers to block their view so that they couldnt see what they were doing, and it became a little bit dangerous.
One major hub for counting ballots in Detroit covered up the windows, again, with large pieces of cardboard. And so they wanted to protect and block the counting area. They didnt want anybody seeing the counting, even though these were observers who are legal observers that were supposed to be there.
In Detroit, there were hours of unexplained delay in delivering many of the votes for counting. The final batch did not arrive until four in the morning and even though the polls closed at eight oclock. So they brought it in, and the batches came in, and nobody knew where they came from. Weve also been denied access to observe in critical places in Georgia.
In multiple swing states, counting was halted for hours and hours on Election Night, with results withheld from major Democrat-run locations, only to appear later. And they certainly appeared, and they all had the name Biden on them, or just about all I think almost all. They all had the name Biden on them, which is a little strange.
I challenge Joe and every Democrat to clarify that they only want legal votes. Because they talk about votes, and I think they should use the word legal legal votes. We want every legal vote counted. And I want every legal vote counted. We want openness and transparency no secret count rooms, no mystery ballots, no illegal votes being cast after Election Day.
You have Election Day, and the laws are very strong on that. You have an Election Day. And they dont want votes cast after Election Day, and they want the process to be an honest one. Its so important. We want an honest election, and we want an honest count, and we want honest people working back there because its a very important job.
So thats the way this country is going to win. Thats the way the United States will win. And we think we will win the election very easily. We think theres going to be a lot of litigation because we have so much evidence, so much proof. And its going to end up, perhaps, at the highest court in the land. Well see. But we think therell be a lot of litigation because we cant have an election stolen by like this.
And I I tell you, I would I have been talking about this for many months with all of you. And Ive said very strongly that mail-in ballots are going to end up being a disaster. Small elections were a disaster. Small, very easy-to-handle elections were disastrous.
This is a large-scale version, and its getting worse and worse every day. Were hearing stories that are horror stories absolute horror stories. And we cant let that happen to the United States of America. Its not a question of who wins Republican, Democrat; Joe, myself. We cant let that happen to our country. We cant be disgraced by having something like this happen.
So it will be hopefully cleared up, maybe soon; I hope soon. But itll probably go through a process a legal process. And, as you know, Ive claimed certain states and hes claiming states. So we can both claim the states, but ultimately I have a feeling judges are going to have to rule. But theres been a lot of shenanigans, and we cant stand for that in our country.
Thank you very much.
END
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Trump's Remarks on the Election; November 5, 2020 (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Nov 2020
OP
Thank You for posting this...Shows how nuts Trump is...I did not hear or see this..
Stuart G
Nov 2020
#1
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)1. Thank You for posting this...Shows how nuts Trump is...I did not hear or see this..
Thank You again...