U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for President – elect Jon Biden, the closest he has come to conceding the Nov.3 election, even as he repeated his unfounded his unfounded claims of massive voter fraud.
Speaking to reporters on the Thanksgiving holiday, Republican Trump said if Democrat Biden – who is due to be sworn in on Jan.20 – is certified the election winner by the Electoral College, he will depart the White House.
But Trump said it would be hard for him to concede under the current circumstances and declined to say whether he would attend Biden’s inauguration.
‘This election was a fraud’, Trump insisted in sometimes rambling discourse at the White House, while continuing to offer no concrete evidence of widespread voting irregularities.
Biden won the election with 306 Electoral College votes – many more than the 270 required – to Trump’s 232, and the electors are scheduled to meet on Dec.14 to formalize the outcome. Biden also leads Trump by more than 6 million in the popular vote tally.
Trump has so far refused to fully acknowledge his defeat, though last week – with mounting pressure from his own Republican ranks – he agreed to let Biden’s transition process officially proceed.
Asked if he would leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for Biden, Trump said: ‘Certainly I will. Certainly I will. And you know that’.
‘But I think that there will be a lot of things happening between now and the 20th of January. A lot of things’, he said. ‘Massive fraud has been found. We’re like a third world country’.
Desperate efforts by Trump and his aids to overturn results in key states, either by lawsuits or by pressuring state legislators, have failed, and he is running out of options.
In the Unites States, a candidate becomes president by securing the most ‘electoral’ votes rather than by winning a majority of the national popular votes. Electors, allotted to the 50 states and the District of Columbia largely based on their population, are party loyalists who pledge to support the candidate who won the popular vote in their state.
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