LOSER

Trump’s efforts to cling to power are unprecedented in American history. While political parties have fought over the results of presidential elections before, no incumbent president has ever made such expansive and individualized pleas to the officials who oversee certification of the election results. Trump even used his presidential perch to compel officials to talk with him, summoning state officials to the White House on a few-hours notice and insisting that his outreach was simply part of his presidential duties.

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In total, the president talked to at least 31 Republicans, encompassing mostly local and state officials from four critical battleground states he lost — Michigan, Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania. The contacts included at least 12 personal phone calls to 11 individuals, and at least four White House meetings with 20 Republican state lawmakers, party leaders and attorneys general, all people he hoped to win over to his side. Trump also spoke by phone about his efforts with numerous House Republicans and at least three current or incoming Senate Republicans.

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He largely shut out his campaign team. And he relied on the advice of the few people who told him what he wanted to hear, including his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.In the end, however, Trump, a wealthy businessman and reality TV star who startled the world when he won the presidency in 2016, failed.

  

He's failed at everything he's ever done. And yet, he became the most powerful man on earth.

But he did succeed in undermining Biden’s legitimacy and sowing doubt about the integrity of U.S. institutions in the eyes of millions of Americans.

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For all practical purposes, Trump’s historic campaign to overturn the election has ended. But the reverberations will linger for years, providing Trump with a platform to continue his political career on the falsehood that his second term was stolen from him.

Continue reading for the details of the attempts Trump made to pressure states into overturning the will of their voters. It should have been humiliating, but Trump isn't above repeatedly humiliating himself - he just claims a different reality.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.