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    Admitting defeat ...

    Nov 14, 2020 3 minutes
    EVITA MARCH The Conversation
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    WHEN US President-Elect Joe Biden and Deputy Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris gave their victory speeches last Saturday evening the tally of Electoral College votes showed they had decisively passed the crucial 270-vote threshold, delivering them to the White House in January.

    Tradition dictates that the losing candidate also gives their own speech to concede defeat. But their vanquished opponent, Donald Trump, has not done that.

    We cannot psychoanalyse President Donald Trump from a distance, though I am sure many of us have tried. We can, however,

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