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Published 15:37 15 Dec 2020 GMT
Joe Biden has used Donald Trump's own arguments against him to show that he won a "landslide victory" in the 2020 United States presidential election, it is being reported.
The president-elect excoriated Donald Trump over his refusal to concede the election in a scathing attack that came hours after the Electoral College officially sealed Biden's victory.
Per NBC News, Biden said the election, which Trump and his supporters have attempted to overturn with numerous failed legal challenges, was "honest, free and fair."
One woman was distraught that her daughter voted for Biden in the election:
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Calling attacks on the election and election officials "simply unconscionable," Biden described Trump's attempts to overturn the result of the presidential election an "abuse of power."
"In America, politicians don't take power — the people grant it to them," Biden said. "The flame of democracy was lit in this nation a long time ago. And we now know that nothing, not even a pandemic — or an abuse of power — can extinguish that flame."
"In this battle for the soul of America, democracy prevailed," He continued.
"We the people voted. Faith in our institutions held. The integrity of our elections remains intact. And so, now it is time to turn the page. To unite. To heal."
As per The Independent, after being confirmed as president-elect Joe Biden gave a short speech during which he seemed to use Donald Trump's own logic against him and urged the President to recognize his "clear victory."
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“Together, the Vice President-elect Harris and I earned 306 electoral votes, well exceeding the 270 electoral votes needed to secure victory. 306 electoral votes is the same number of electoral votes that Donald Trump and Vice President Pence received when they won in 2016,” Biden said, continuing:
“At the time, President Trump calls the Electoral College tally a landslide. By his own standards. These numbers represented a clear victory then, and I respectfully suggest they do so now.
"If anyone didn’t know before, they know now.
"What beats deep in the hearts of the American people is this, democracy, the right to be heard, to have your vote counted, to choose leaders of this nation, to govern ourselves.”
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This comes days after Trump was labelled "Loser of the Year" by respected German news magazine Der Spiegel.
According to the Huffington Post, a portion of the article states that Trump was, "never concerned with the common good, but always with one thing — himself.”
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“Nothing is normal under Trump,” the article continued. "He refuses to admit defeat. Instead, he speaks of massive electoral fraud, although there is no evidence for it. The whole thing is not surprising. Trump’s presidency ends as it began: Without decency and without dignity."
