Burgum Dodges On Trump Prematurely Declaring Win

Mediaite reports:

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum refused to say on Thursday whether former President Donald Trump should declare victory before the election results are in, despite being repeatedly pressed on the issue by CNN host Kaitlan Collins.

Collins asked, “If you’re around him on Tuesday, will you encourage him to wait until all the results are in and the ballots have been counted?” Burgum refused to answer, instead responding, “What I’m optimistic for this country is that we’re gonna know the victory on Tuesday night and not, you know, a day later, two days later, weeks later.”

Collins shot back: “Well, it’s not a hypothetical. It happened in 2020 and Rudy Giuliani told Donald Trump to go out there and declare victory. Steve Bannon, after getting out of prison the other day, said that Trump’s only mistake was that he should have done it at 11 p.m. that night.”

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