Violent insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump scale the west wall of the the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6. (Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press) It took more than three days after the Nov.
3 election for the last of the votes to be counted and for Joe Biden to claim victory with a popular vote margin of nearly 7 million and an electoral college vote of 306-232.
But even before the final count was tallied, Donald Trump and his supporters had already begun to push what has become known as “The Big Lie” — the idea that Trump had actually won the election but that Biden and the Democrats had stolen it away through voter fraud.