“Donald Trump is going to be our president. And if you do, then we must accept this result and then look to the future,” Clinton said. At noon the day after the election, Clinton stepped up to a podium and delivered an emotional missive: “I still believe in America, and I always will. Later that night, Obama convinced her to make the call to Trump and concede the race without delivering a speech. But we know from Clinton’s book that much earlier in the night, around 11 p.m., a Barack Obama aide called Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, and said the then-president wanted her to concede.Ĭlinton pushed back, she wrote, because she did not have the right words to say to the little girls who looked up to her. She wrote in her book, 2017’s What Happened, that as results came in, the mood dampened in her camp, and Trump’s shock victory snuck up on her - on everyone, really - and left her feeling “numb.” The Associated Press didn’t formally call the election for Trump until well into the night, at 2:30 a.m.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton did not have a concession speech ready. The absence of one after such a bitter election means that no matter what happens, for the next four years, the wounds of 2020 will remain exposed and bleeding. Presidential concession speeches have a big job, which is to delicately unite the electorate. He followed up the tweet, “ I concede NOTHING!” - leaving most people to formally give up on an admission of defeat.īut just because we have to accept that the concession is not coming doesn’t mean it should go unexamined. Here’s the closest we got: “He won,” a tweet of Trump’s began on Sunday, referring to Biden, before continuing to falsely claim that the win was rigged. The very thought of a Trump concession always seemed absurd, given everything we know about him - but now, weeks into his campaign’s failing legal efforts to challenge the results, when there is no path for him to successfully overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s win, we’ve firmly arrived at the reality that he is not going to concede. By now, it’s clear that President Donald Trump is not going to concede that he lost the 2020 election.
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