In an opinion piece entitled “Why I Won’t Accept Joe Biden
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Gingrich wrote that he had been asked by a “smart friend of mine” why he couldn’t accept Biden’s victory President Trump
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“As I thought about it, I realized that my anger and fear weren’t narrowly focused on votes,” Gingrich wrote in an op-ed published in The Washington Times Monday. “My reluctance to relax and accept that the election was over stemmed from a level of outrage and alienation unlike anything I had experienced in more than 60 years of involvement in public affairs.”
Gingrich also said the two parties and liberals and conservatives “live in alternate worlds.”
“You have more than 74 million voters who supported President Trump despite everything – and given the election mess, the number could easily be significantly higher. The truth is, tens of millions of Americans are deeply alienated and angry,” Gingrich wrote. “If Mr. Biden rules from the left – and he will almost certainly be forced – that number will increase rapidly and we will win massive elections in 2022.”
Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 presidential election by more than 70 electoral votes and more than 7 million in the popular vote, winning the most votes ever in a presidential election.
Trump won the second most popular vote ever.
Gingrich has backed Trump’s efforts to challenge the election results and wrote in the op-ed that he has no interest in “pretending the current result is legitimate or honorable,” calling it a “final blow to a four-year establishment. media.
However, no evidence has been provided to support that the election results were unfair, and the challenges of the Trump campaign and its allies have been repeatedly dismissed in court, culminating in a few losses at the Supreme Court, which now includes three . Trump nominees.