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Trump: Need election victories for my ego

In President Donald Trump’s personal phrases, election victories function self-affirmation. He wants them for his “ego,” Trump stated on Thursday throughout a speech in Washington. He additionally repeated his unfaithful declare that Democrat Joe Biden illegitimately grew to become president in 2020.

“They manipulated the second election,” stated the right-wing populist, apparently alluding to his defeat in opposition to Biden, which he nonetheless denies to today. Trump had repeatedly claimed that the Democrats “stole” the 2020 election from him. There is not any proof for this.

“I had to win them, I needed it for my own ego,” Trump continued. It was not totally clear whether or not he was additionally referring to the 2020 election or his 2024 victory in opposition to Vice President Kamala Harris of the Democrats. Harris took over the candidacy after Biden withdrew from the race following sharp criticism of misfires within the election marketing campaign.

Trump made the remarks in a 77-minute speech at this yr’s “National Prayer Breakfast,” a greater than 70-year-old bipartisan occasion with politicians, church leaders and enterprise leaders. He introduced a prayer occasion on May seventeenth on the National Mall in Washington, the inexperienced strip between the Capitol and the monument to former President Abraham Lincoln.

“We will rededicate America as one nation under God,” Trump stated. “One Nation Under God” is a quote from the standard pledge of allegiance to the flag.