GOP pushes back on Trump’s baseless claims about fraud and winning election with ‘legal votes’ in Thursday speech

GOP lawmakers pushed back on President Trump’s Thursday address, making unsubstantiated and what some called “dangerous” claims about the election process, including claims of fraudulent activity among election workers who are still counting ballots in key battleground states.

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DONALD TRUMP: If you count the legal votes, I easily win. 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'll look into them very strongly. But a lot of votes came in late. I've already decisively won many critical states, including massive victories in Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, to name just a few. We won these and many other victories despite historic election interference from big media, big money, and big tech. As everybody, saw we won by historic nu--

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