Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney is urging President Donald Trump to admit he lost the election despite ballots that still need to be counted.
“I think what the president needs to do is, frankly, put his big boy pants on. He needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner just as Jimmy Carter did, just as George H.W. Bush did, and, frankly, just as Al Gore did, and stop this and let us move forward as a country,” Kenney said during a press conference on Friday.
He added, “That’s my feeling. I doubt he’ll listen to me, but that’s it.”
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Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney: “I think what the president needs to do is, frankly, put his big boy pants on." pic.twitter.com/yfMGPTUN8V
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is leading in Pennsylvania, as IJR previously reported. If he wins the state, he will have garnered another 20 electoral votes bringing him past the 270 he needs to win the race.
The president has launched a series of lawsuits in battleground states. His campaign filed a lawsuit against Philadelphia County’s Board of Elections to stop ballot counting, as IJR previously reported.
According to Trump’s campaign, election officials were “intentionally refusing to allow any representatives and poll watchers for President Trump and the Republican Party.”
His emergency request was rejected.
“As stated during today’s emergency injunction hearing, in light of the parties’ agreement, plaintiff’s motion is denied without prejudice,” District Judge Paul Diamond said.
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) denied Trump’s allegations of widespread fraud in his state.
“The president’s allegations of large-scale fraud and theft of the election are just not substantiated. I’m not aware of any significant wrongdoing here,” Toomey said.
Trump argued on Thursday, “In Pennsylvania, partisan Democrats have allowed ballots in the state to be received three days after the election and we think much more than that. And they’re counting those without even postmarks or any identification whatsoever.”
Pennsylvania was permitted by the Supreme Court on Oct. 19 to accept mail-in ballots up to three days after Election Day. The state Supreme Court decision, allowing counties to receive mail-in ballots that did not have a clear postmark, was upheld by the Supreme Court.
