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Lindsey Graham: If Trump concedes election, Republicans will 'never' elect another president

Monday, 09 November 2020 2:35 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 09 November 2020 2:40 PM ]

US Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks to a crowd during his election night party on November 3, 2020 in Columbia, South Carolina. (AFP photo)

Hawkish Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has said that US President Donald Trump should not concede defeat to Democratic Joe Biden because otherwise Republicans will "never" be able to elect another president again.

"If Republicans don't challenge and change the US election system, there will never be another Republican president elected again," Graham told Fox News on Sunday.

"President Trump should not concede. We're down to less — 10,000 votes in Georgia. He's going to win North Carolina. We have gone from 93,000 votes to less than 20,000 votes in Arizona, where more — more votes to be counted," he added.

Four days after the November 3 election, Biden on Saturday surpassed the threshold of 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House.

The former vice president also received four million more popular votes than Trump’s.

Biden declared himself the winner in the presidential election after several news networks called him victorious on Saturday in Pennsylvania and Nevada, where ballot counting still continues.

Trump, however, has not conceded defeat and launched an array of lawsuits to press claims of election fraud in swing states without producing evidence.

Trump censured the announcement and claimed that Biden "falsely poses as the winner" with the help of "his media allies."

He also claimed in a tweet that he had won the 2020 election "by a lot.”

Trump also lambasted the mainstream media for projecting Biden as winner.

Trump plans rallies to protest his election loss to Biden

US President Donald Trump is planning to hold rallies to protest the outcome of the vote that gave his Democratic rival Joe Biden a clean sweep in the race for the White House.

Graham, one of Trump's closest allies on Capitol Hill and the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, alleged, "What happened? The Trump team has canvassed all early voters and absentee mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, and they have found over 100 people they think were dead but 15 people that we verified that have been dead who voted."

"Here is the one that gets me: Six people registered after they died and voted. In Pennsylvania, I guess you're never out of it," he explained.

Trump is reportedly planning to hold rallies to protest the outcome of the vote.

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