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The Dershow

Should Trump Concede?

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Is Trump legally required to concede of can he exhaust his legal options first?

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0:00.0

Is today Friday the 13th for President Trump's chances of actually becoming reelected and

0:08.4

being sworn in on January 20th? The New York Times has done an analysis which suggests that's the case that there is no path to victory.

0:19.3

What are his lawyers advising him? My advice is you can do great things in the next nine or so weeks of

0:28.3

your presidency even if you no longer contest the outcome of the election. Maybe that would be the way to turn a

0:36.8

loss into a win. You'll hear more about this on the Dershaw.

0:42.0

Is today Friday the 13th for President Trump's chances

0:46.6

of actually turning around the election results

0:49.7

and being inaugurated on January 20th.

0:53.3

Should his lawyers finally have that come to Trump moment

0:58.9

and sit down with him and say,

1:01.1

look, we've gone through all the states, we've gone through all the likely

1:06.3

scenarios, and we've come to the conclusion that you have no path to victory. The New York Times did an analysis yesterday in which they came

1:19.1

to the conclusion. Their title is Can Trump still win? No, he's already lost. They've come to the conclusion, quoting

1:26.5

lots of election experts that even if he wins all of the cases that are now pending in the various courts.

1:35.0

There just aren't enough votes that are being reasonably contested

1:41.0

to turn around enough states to give him the 270 electoral votes.

1:47.0

Now, of course, he doesn't need 260 electoral votes to win the presidency.

1:52.0

The reason for that is that Joe Biden needs 270

1:56.4

electoral votes to win the presidency. If President Trump got no votes at all or

2:02.4

one electoral vote or 10 but Vice President Biden got only

2:09.9

269 votes not the 270,

2:14.0

Trump would become the President of the United States.

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