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Dick Durbin: “He [Donald Trump] was only off by 7 million votes. That's…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Published | Video Starts at 02:30

No coincidence, it was an attempt to put pressure on Congress not to count the electoral votes. You see, the president then and now had this fiction in his mind that he actually won the election. He [Donald Trump] was only off by 7 million votes. That's how much he lost it [the 2020 election] by. But he kept filing lawsuits and making protests and arguing that he should be president again. (02:30)

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Asserts that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election by 7 million votes.

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