CNN’s Jake Tapper skewered President Trump for prematurely declaring that he won the presidential election.
The president, in a late-night address from the White House, claimed that he won North Carolina and Georgia even though neither one has been called by any major news outlets.
“President Trump, as we anticipated, falsely and prematurely declaring victory, saying that he won,” Tapper stated. “He did not win. He hasn’t won. The president falsely depicting the counting of votes as a fraud and an embarrassment. That is not what is going on. What is going on is the normal democratic process. Almost everything President Trump said in his declaration of victory wasn’t true.”
“It may well be that President Trump ends up winning this election,” he added. “But what President Trump just said was undemocratic and false and premature. It is not accurate to say that he won. We do not know who won this election. And I have to say, Dana, it is not a surprise, but still, years into the presidency, I find it shockingly disappointing that he still would continue to erode faith that the American people have in institutions.”
Both Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden have clear paths to the White House, but neither one has the 270 electoral votes needed to declare victory definitively, with states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia left uncalled.
