Trump Appears Confused About Admitting to 2020 Loss
Donald Trump, when asked during Tuesday’s presidential debate about admitting that he lost “by a whisker” against President Joe Biden four years ago, claimed he was being “sarcastic,” and continued to repeat bogus claims about voting fraud and insist he won.
About halfway through the debate, ABC anchor David Muir sought clarification from Trump in light of his statement last month that his reelection bid in 2020 came up “just a little bit short”—a comment that some MAGA followers griped about.
“For three-and-a-half years after you lost the 2020 election, you repeatedly, falsely claimed that you won—many times saying that you won in a landslide. In the past couple weeks leading up to this debate, you have said you ‘lost by a whisker,’ that you ‘didn’t quite make it,’ that you came up ‘a little bit short,’” Muir began.