President Trump alleged voter fraud again on Tuesday night from his official presidential podium, saying that he wanted more audits conducted in states where Dominion Voting Systems machines were used to count ballots.
Statement by Donald J. Trump, The President of the United States
Full Video: https://t.co/avKfYctPAD pic.twitter.com/i8IMLhH53Q
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2020
Trump again claimed that “vote counting abruptly stopped” on election night and that broadly Democrat-leaning “vote dumps” led to his loss, citing the affidavits his campaign has produced in court.
“In Arizona, the state senators recently issued a subpoena for a forensic audit of the voting machines, and similar investigations must be launched in every state using Dominion systems immediately.”
Trump’s campaign and other Republican allies have suffered dozens of defeats in courts across the country, from circuit courts all the way up to the Supreme Court. Earlier in December, Attorney General William Barr said that the Justice Department has not found any evidence of widespread voter fraud.
“No president has ever lost reelection while making such extraordinary gains across the board,” Trump said. “There’s never been anything like it.”
Trump has yet to concede or invite President-elect Joe Biden to the White House. Trump had previously said that he would “certainly” concede if Biden won enough votes in the Electoral College — but then dug in and said that Biden “can only enter the White House as President if he can prove that his ridiculous 80,000,000 votes” were not fraudulently or illegally obtained.
Trump said in the video that he won the election by a “magnificent landslide.” Biden secured more than 81 million votes to Trump’s 74 million, according to the Associated Press. Biden’s popular vote total is the most votes a presidential candidate has ever received.
Trump also volleyed a fusillade against the Democratic Party, the media, and Big Tech companies and alleged without providing evidence that they used the past “four years to work on the scheme to rig the 2020 election,” adding that they “were openly colluding to deceive the American public.” He said that the media used polls that projected he would lose the election to “deter” his supporters from voting.
Trump also used the video to highlight the success of Operation Warp Speed, which saw the approval and distribution of two vaccines that have both been shown to be more than 90% effective at preventing COVID-19.
