Trump cut off by TV stations as he accuses Democrats of 'stealing' election: 'Aren't you being a sore loser?'
Major media outlets cut away from President Donald Trump as he accused Democrats of "stealing the election" amid several reports of alleged voter fraud across the country. TV stations ABC, CBS, and NBC cut the White House live feed as Trump lashed out at a "fraudulent" election that he claimed was being spearheaded by the Democrats colluding with "big media, big money, and big tech," The Sun reported.
MSNBC’s Brian Williams declared there were "no illegal votes that we know of" as he interrupted the president's statement. "Here we are again in the unusual position of not only interrupting the president of the United States but correcting the president of the United States," he said. "There are no illegal votes that we know of, there has been no Trump victory that we know of."
NBC's Lester Holt also echoed that there "has been no evidence" of voter fraud as alleged by the President. "We have to interrupt here, because the president has made a number of false statements, including the notion that there has been fraudulent voting," Holt declared. "There has been no evidence of that." Over at CBS, host Norah O’Donnell cut the feed and asked correspondent Nancy Cordes to fact-check Trump’s claim that he would easily win the election if “legal votes” were counted. Cordes responded saying Trump’s reference to votes arriving late was simply "another falsehood." ABC's White House correspondent Jonathan Karl also agreed that there was no evidence of illegal votes. "What he seems to be frustrated by is... that it takes time to count votes," Karl said. "It’s always taken time to count votes. But especially in this election."
Trump has alleged "tremendous corruption" among mail-in ballots, noting that they were "overwhelmingly" for rival Joe Biden. "If you count the legal votes I easily win. If you count the illegal votes — they can try to steal the election from us," he told reporters, before vowing he wouldn't allow any "corruption to steal such an important election" or "silence" GOP voters. "They did the mail-in ballots where there's tremendous corruption and fraud going on," Trump insisted. "I told everybody that these things would happen."
"I've already decisively won," Trump declared, just hours after Biden said he had "no doubt" he had won the race to the White House. The president noted his victories in Florida, Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa, and argued there was "no blue wave that they predicted" as he touted how Republicans had flipped several seats in the House. "Democrats are the party of the big donors, the big media, and big tech," he told reporters. "The Republicans have become the party of the American worker," Trump added, before criticizing the "phony" media polling that he described as "election interference in the truest sense of that word."
The president also threatened a "lot of litigation" that could end up at "the highest court in the land" after his campaign filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia. Following the press conference, CNN's Jim Acosta was heard asking Trump "are you just being a sore loser" as he left the podium.