Time to accept loss

President Trump has a long history of claiming that an election was rigged when the results are not to his liking. In 2012, he advocated that President Obama was not an American and that voting machines wiped out ballots for Mitt Romney. In 2016, Trump accused Ted Cruz of cheating when he beat him in Iowa and Wisconsin. In August of this year, he claimed that the election “is going to be rigged.” After the count started, Trump tweeted, “We are up big, but they are trying to steal the election,” and later he said he would go to the Supreme Court.

Experts and government officials have repeatedly said polling fraud is rare. However, Trump has never let facts get in the way of his reality. The cold reality is that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election. Over 80 million Americans fired Donald Trump and Mike Pence and elected Joe Biden and Kamala Harris president-elect and vice president-elect of the United States.

In a bold attempt to overthrow the will of the American people and prove their loyalty to Trump, 126 lawmakers and 17 attorneys-general signed on to a baseless claim to the Supreme Court, which was soundly rejected, seeking to overturn the will of the people and install a dictator.

In another ruling, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court rejected Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud and told Trump’s attorney that the lawsuit “smacks of racism.” Speaking in the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Justice Jill Karofsky argued that the counties were presumably “targeted because of their diverse population, they’re urban, [and] I presume because they vote Democratic.”

Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois wrote in a tweet, “Real men accept loss with grace.”

Mr. President, you lost. It’s time to turn the page.

CHESTINE SIMS

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