Two elections, two very different press secretaries.
Here's a look at the White House response to election results in 2016 and 2020.
Here's a look at the White House response to election results in 2016 and 2020.
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00:00This election is not over. Far from it.
00:03We have only begun the process of obtaining an accurate, honest vote count.
00:08Everybody's discouraged when the candidate they're supporting loses an election.
00:15But the genius and brilliance of our democracy
00:20is that when the election's over, we recognize that
00:23we're Americans and patriots before we're Democrats and Republicans.
00:27Our position is clear. We want to protect the franchise of the American people.
00:33We want an honest, accurate, lawful count.
00:36We want maximum sunlight. We want maximum transparency.
00:40The president doesn't get to choose his successor. The American people do.
00:45And his responsibility to the American people
00:49and his responsibility to this democracy supersedes his own personal views.
00:57The integrity of our election matters. The Constitution of the United States matters.
01:03What we have seen across the country is Democrat officials systematically trying to do an
01:08end-run around the Constitution to tip the scales of the election in their favor.
01:13I think the president and the tone and the priorities that he
01:18exhibited in the Rose Garden are indicative of
01:24the approach that the White House staff is taking to ensuring a smooth transition
01:29and working to ensure the success of the president-elect in leading and uniting the country.
01:36No one doubts that conducting a national election amid a pandemic poses serious challenges,
01:43but none of that means individual judges may improvise with their own election rules
01:48in place of those the people's representatives have adopted.
01:53They have taken a global pandemic and turned it into a nationwide electoral epidemic.
01:58The president believes that our democracy benefits from more people being engaged and
02:02more people being involved in the debate, regardless of which candidate they support.
02:06That our democracy is strengthened when more voices and more perspectives and more views
02:12are incorporated into the process of governing this country.
02:16All we are asking for is truth, transparency, and sunlight here. That is all we are asking for.
02:22And sadly, we are asking the questions many of you should.
02:24What's true is that the president-elect has some
02:32difficult questions to answer and some big challenges to tackle.
02:37And it's why it's so important for there to be a smooth and effective, efficient transition
02:44from President Obama's presidency to the Trump presidency.
02:47Because as Americans, we're rooting for the success of our president in leading and uniting
02:54the country.