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Jon Ossoff: “That's the widest margin of defeat in the popular vote since…”

Featuring: Jon Ossoff, Democratic | U.S. Senate Georgia

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Ossoff: "The power of the presidency is nothing compared to the power of the people."

Published | Video Starts at 02:21

Just consider that the sitting Attorney General of the United States and the sitting director of the FBI refused to accept Trump's defeat in the 2020 election, an election Trump lost by 74 Electoral College votes and 7 million popular votes. That's the widest margin of defeat in the popular vote since John McCain's in 2008. And since now they're wielding state power to rewrite history, we have to remind everyone that Trump didn't just lose Georgia, he lost Arizona, he lost Michigan, he lost Nevada, he lost Pennsylvania, he lost Wisconsin, and then tried to cling to power. (02:21–02:30)

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Asserts that Trump's popular vote defeat margin was the largest since 2008.

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