President Donald Trump took to the White House podium on Thursday to air a grievance-filled rant insisting he “easily” won the 2020 election even though he trails the Democratic nominee Joe Biden in electoral votes and hundreds of thousands of outstanding ballots have not been processed. “If you count the legal votes, I easily win,” Trump said. “If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us.
If you count the votes that came in late, we’re looking at them very strongly. But a lot of votes came in late.” Trump also complained about “phony polls” and “suppression polls” that he falsely claims were manipulated by “big media” to hurt Republicans, and repeated a lie that he had an early lead in some states before it