4 YEARS Can be an Eternity But Trump Don’t do Numbers Thought It was2016
In the hours before President Trump began to realize that he may not get to "Make America Great Again, Again," the former reality television star who stunned the world in 2016 with his improbable leap to the White House allowed for a moment of candor.
"You know, winning is easy. Losing is never easy. Not for me, it's not," Trump told reporters on Election Day, his voice hoarse from an unforgiving three-week marathon of rallies.
Now, the world is seeing just how difficult it is for a man who built his brand on winning to lose. Trump has so far rejected the idea of conceding defeat to his Democratic opponent Joe Biden, who on Saturday became president-elect, having secured enough votes to win the Electoral College.
It's a drawn-out and potentially ignominious end to a campaign modeled closely on Trump's 2016 win — a flurry of what so far seem like last-ditch legal challenges to voting procedures in several states. "He's absolutely going to fight like a wild animal to the very end," his former chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told Fox Business News. But some advisers are trying to help him find a way out of his corner, gently appealing to him to protect his legacy.
"It's dawning on him," one former adviser told NPR, speaking on condition of anonymity to comment on private conversations. Trump's ability to withstand political crisis after political crisis conditioned his team to have "a false sense of reality because he's survived so many times," the former adviser said.
"He never thought he could lose ... and those of us who are in Trump world, we actually never believed he could lose."
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