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Many supporters of President Donald Trump, even those in the media, believe that he was robbed in the 2020 presidential election. This writer is one of them.

One of the most prominent ones has been Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo who, this week, said that an intelligence source told her that President Trump did, in fact, win the election.

“Challenging election results, as we await today’s Electoral College decision, an intel source telling me that President Trump did in fact win the election,” she said on Monday before the Electoral College voted.

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Bartiromo then brought on Alan Dershowitz, a famed attorney and Harvard law professor who has supported the president, who said the Trump campaign had reached “the end of the line.” He said the end for Trump came on Friday, when the three Supreme Court Justices, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney-Barrett “all ruled against him.”

Unfortunately for President Trump, Bartiromo, and all of us, the Electoral College did vote for former Vice President Joe Biden, who is now officially president-elect.

That does serious damage to the majority of the legal paths the president has to maintain the presidency but, as we will explore in future columns, it does not end every chance he has.

Biden celebrated his Electoral College victory in a speech on Monday evening where he coughed throughout the entire thing.

Biden said that democracy was “pushed, tested, threatened.” But he said democracy showed that it is “resilient, true, and strong.”

“The flame of democracy was lit in this nation a long time ago,” he said. “And we now know that nothing, not even a pandemic or an abuse of power, can extinguish that flame.”

The former vice president said that his 306 Electoral votes, the same number that President Trump secured in 2016, was “by (Trump’s) own standards, these numbers represent a clear victory then, and I respectfully suggest they do so now.”

Biden said that even though the nation is deeply divided, he would be “a president for all Americans” who will “work just as hard for those of you who didn’t vote for me as I will for those who did.”

“Now it is time to turn the page as we’ve done throughout our history,” the former vice president said. “To unite. To heal.”

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