concession

November 21, 2020

What Trump’s Refusal To Concede Says About American Democracy

By Perry Bacon Jr. At nearly 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, the morning after Election Day 2016, the Associated Press declared Donald Trump the winner of the presidential election. Around the same time, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton phoned Trump to concede, a call she made at the urging of then-President Barack Obama. That Thursday, less than 48 hours after the…

November 13, 2020

What happens if Trump refuses to concede the 2020 election?

By Aaron Feis November 5, 2020 When Inauguration Day rolls around on Jan. 20, if Trump has exhausted his legal challenges and physically refuses to leave the White House premises, Biden said in June that he was “absolutely convinced” the military would remove Trump “with great dispatch.” But Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told NPR last month that…