Despondent Trump Supporters Say They Can’t Accept Biden-Harris Win

Mod: They don't seem to be handling their defeat well. You might want to send some thoughts and prayers their way.

Despondent Trump supporters say they can’t accept Biden-Harris win (Los Angeles Timeslink): Dejected Trump supporters struggled to accept that their candidate had lost his bid for reelection. Thomas Nguyen, 61, took his place in a line of Trump supporters at a rally Saturday on Santa MonicaBoulevard in Beverly Hills, sporting a “Vietnamese Americans for Trump” T-shirt and waving an American flag.

Trump is not conceding, and is likely to fire foes, pardon friends.

Nguyen, an accountant, was incensed by what he described as the Democrats’ attempts to “steal” the election with illegitimate votes. President Trump and his supporters have accused Democrats of election fraud, offering no evidence to back it up. So far, courts have rejected GOP efforts to stop the voting counting over unfounded fraud concerns.

Asked if he would recognize Joe Biden as president should Trump concede, Nguyen said, “He will never concede, because the righteous will always win.”

It was a dejecting ending to a divisive campaign for Trump supporters in California. Far outnumbered in a deep blue state, the Trump faithful had been gathering for rallies in Beverly Hills for several weeks. They knew they were not going to turn California but wanted to show the president that he had some support here.

Carrie Johnson, who drove to Beverly Hills in a caravan from Mission Viejo, said she doesn’t recognize the Associated Press and other media (including Fox News) calling the race in Biden’s favor. 

“The media doesn’t decide the election — the people do,” she said.

Were Biden to take office, Johnson said she wouldn’t recognize him as president. “I don’t think any of us are going to acknowledge Biden as our president,” she said. 

Johnson, who lives in Orange County, said she is particularly concerned about “national mask mandates” and “mass vaccines” she worries could be coming, and beyond that, an erosion of civil liberties. 

She added it might take a Biden administration for “Americans to wake up and realize what we have.”

Across most of L.A., there were celebrations in the street for Biden. But in Beverly Hills, the Trump supporter did get a bit of support. “Don’t lose hope!” one woman called out from a yellow Jeep, which made several rounds around the Beverly Hills rally, decorated in several Trump and American flags and a sign that read, “Voter fraud is real in America.”

Just hours after networks called the election for Biden, Trump supporters began gathering at California’s Capitol, where a smaller contingent of Biden supporters also staked out a spot on a street corner, waving sings for the president-elect as a caravan of a dozen cars with Trump and American flags went by. While the two sides were mostly peaceful, tempers were on edge. At an intersection, a skateboarder crossing in front of a blue Jeep with a large Trump flag gave its occupants double middle fingers before spitting on the vehicle and riding away. 

The driver of the Jeep jumped out and gave chase for about half a block before giving up.

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