Why Is Trump Finally Admitting He Lost the 2020 Election?

In the past few days, we’ve seen something of a seismic shift in the rhetoric of former President Donald Trump: He has admitted on three separate occasions to losing the 2020 election. The very same race Trump’s been committed to baselessly claiming for years he actually won. The latest instance of Trump’s brief encounter with reality came in an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, who asked a rather anodyne question: “How do you think you’ll do in the debate coming up?” Trump boasted about his success in debating and recalled “the famous Rosie O’Donnell debate” before pivoting to 2020. “I became president, and then the second time, I got millions more votes than he got the first time,” he said, starting down a path familiar to anyone who’s paid attention. “I was told that if I got 63 million, which is what I got the first time, you would win. You can’t not win. And I got millions of more votes than that. And I lost by a whisker.” This wouldn’t be the first time Trump has admitted he lost. Over the years he’s made headlines for apparent slips in which he concedes that he did indeed lose the election to President Joe Biden, admissions that are at odds with his deranged crusade to insist the election was stolen — a crusade that has somehow convinced the majority of Republican voters of this fantasy. But in the last few weeks, the pace of Trump’s 2020 confessions has accelerated. Welcome to Mediaite, THE site for news and opinion on the intersection of media and politics. Join Mediaite+ https://www.mediaite.com/subscribe/ ►Subscribe to Mediaite: https://bit.ly/3MjuECB ► Website: https://www.mediaite.com/ ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mediaite/ ► X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mediaite ► Threads: https://www.threads.net/@mediaite ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mediaite